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      Air Force cracks software, carpet bombs DMCA

      Posted by Garrett from Ars Technica

      Last week, a US Court of Appeals upheld a ruling on software piracy. The organization doing the piracy, however, happened to be a branch of the US government, and the decision highlights the significant limits to the application of copyright law to the government charged with enforcing it. Most significantly, perhaps, the court found that because the DMCA is written in a way that targets individual infringers, the government cannot be liable for claims made under the statute.

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    • YouTube Fires Back At Viacom

      Posted by Jeff

      As we say in the legal profession, 'issue has been joined' in Viacom v. YouTube. In its answer to Viacom's complaint (PDF), filed Friday, YouTube says Viacom's lawsuit is intended to 'challenge... the protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") that Congress enacted a decade ago to encourage the development of services like YouTube.' It goes on to say that the suit 'threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment, and political and artistic expression.'

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      EFF sues Viacom over YouTube takedown of Colbert parody

      Posted by Jeff from BoingBoing

      Oh Viacom, you should read those DMCA lists of clips before you order them taken down: The video, called "Stop the Falsiness," was created by MoveOn and Brave New Films as a tongue-in-cheek commentary on Colbert's portrayal of the right-wing media and parodying MoveOn's own reputation for earnest political activism.

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      Lessig: Make Way for Copyright Chaos

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      But 20 months ago, the Supreme Court reversed this wise policy of deference. Drawing upon common law-like power, the court expanded the Copyright Act in the Grokster case to cover a form of liability it had never before recognized in the context of copyright — the wrong of providing technology that induces copyright infringement. It announced this new form of liability even though at precisely the same time Congress was holding hearings about whether to amend the Copyright Act ...

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    • Viacom terrorizes YouTube with bull**** DMCA notices

      Posted by Jeff from BoingBoing

      And Google can take steps now to reduce that load: sue the living **** out of Viacom. We've got precedent -- the Diebold debacle -- for the idea that abusing the DMCA takedown process is illegal. Courts have been willing to punish this kind of excess by awarding fees and damages.

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    rwtaylor comments on:

    Truthiness is scarce at Viacom and YouTube this week

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    5:25 pm 9/30/07
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    Jon comments on:

    Lessig: Make Way for Copyright Chaos

    Definitely worth a read: Lessig is one of the more interesting legal minds out there.

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    9:13 am 3/18/07
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