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1: UK Gov Nationalises Orphans and Bans Non-Consensual Photography in Public
First off today, some last-minute changes to the Digital Economy Bill in the UK is drawing the ire of visual artists. A largely overlooked portion of the bill deals with the licensing of [...]

It is Monday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.
It was a big week for copyright news, including the re-trial of the year, the Jammie Thomas case and it’s jaw-dropping jury award. However, there was a lot of other important happenings going on including some drama [...]

Maureen Dowd has been accused of plagiarizing part of her most recent column from a blogger. However, do the accusations hold up?

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1: Citing $130K in legal bills, Jammie Thomas lawyer withdraws
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A recent article on the New York Times site drew the attention of the Web to excerpting and the difficulty defining good vs. bad use. It’s a touchy issue with no easy answers.

The GateHouse/NYT dispute over RSS aggregation has ended in an abrupt settlement. What does this mean for bloggers and aggregating services?

The holidays did not keep the copyright news from rushing in, so to recap this week in copyright news, here are the links to read.

For all intents and purposes, RSS is still an extremely new technology. Bloggers, often viewed as being on the cutting edge of such things, are still struggling to determine how to best use the tool to distribute their works.
But as hot as the debate is among bloggers, it is even more heated in the [...]