It is Friday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.

With the holiday weekend in the U.S., it was a slow week for copyright news but that doesn’t mean Patrick and I got to rest any. We had several major developments in the U.S. Copyright Group legal battle with Time Warner Cable, the conclusion of the Men at Work case and a politician that doesn’t understand copyright isn’t a magic eraser.

This week’s stories include:

• Time Warner/U.S. Copyright Group Have to Work Together
• U.S. Copyright Group to Only Get 28 IPs Per Month
• Men at Work Get to Keep Most of Their Money
• Politician Complains About Her Old Viewpoints Being Repeated
• Hulu Launches a Plus Program
• Woot and the AP Have a Spat

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Show Notes

Also, just a small programming note, we will NOT be having an episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show next week as we will both be taking a week off. You’ll instead get to listen to our failed attempts to get caught back up two week from today!

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Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey (@plagiarismtoday) is the Webmaster and author of Plagiarism Today (Hint: You’re there now) and works as a copyright and plagiarism consultant. Though not an attorney, he has resolved over 700 cases of plagiarism involving his own work and has helped countless others protect their work and develop strategies for making their content work as hard as possible toward their goals.

Patrick O’Keefe

Patrick O’Keefe (@iFroggy) is the owner of the iFroggy Network, a network of websites covering various interests. He’s the author of the book “Managing Online Forums,” a practical guide to managing online communities and social spaces. He maintains a blog about online community management at ManagingCommunities.com and a personal blog at patrickokeefe.com.

1: P2P plaintiffs to get just 28 Time Warner IPs each month

First off today, Time Warner Cable has won a victory in its dispute with the U.S. Copyright Group. The company will only have to turn over 28 IP addresses per month instead of turning over all 800+ at once. The U.S. Copyright Group, which is operating on behalf of several independent film makes to file massive lawsuits against suspected file sharers, had demanded all the addresses be turned over at once but Time Warner said that it was not possible with their current resources. The court has agreed and now it will take over 2 years for the U.S. Copyright Group to receive all of the information from just one of their lawsuits. Time Warner, along with various public interest groups had hoped to break the massive lawsuit up into individual cases, but the judge has, so far, declined to do that.

2: TalkTalk and BT launch challenge to Digital Economy Act

Next up today, BT and TalkTalk, two of the UK’s biggest ISPs are asking for a judicial review of the Digital Economy Act to ensure that no “fundamental rights” are being trampled upon by the new law. According to the ISPs, the act, which will require ISPs to shut off access to those repeatedly accused of piracy, not only raises serious privacy concerns, but also was passed in a worrisome manner and, puts larger ISPs at a disadvantage to smaller ones as the act only applies to ISPs with more than 400,000 subscribers. The portions of the law that result in disconnection do not take effect until at least next year.

3: Don Johnson Awarded $23.2m Nash Bridges Profits

Finally today, in an update to the Nash Bridges story covered earlier, Don Johnson, the star and creator of the show, has been awarded over $23 million in profits from the show’s production company, Rysher Entertainment. According to Rysher, no royalties had been paid because the show still had not recouped all of its cost. However, the jury disagreed and awarded the star, best known for his work on Miami Vice what it viewed as owed royalties. Two other companies, Qualia Capital and 2929 Entertainment, were also successfully sued by Johnson.

Suggestions

That’s it for the three count today. We will be back tomorrow with three more copyright links. If you have a link that you want to suggest a link for the column or have any proposals to make it better. Feel free to leave a comment or send me an email. I hope to hear from you.

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1: Time Warner Cable Tries To Put Brakes on Massive Piracy Case

First off today, Time Warner Cable has filed an objection to the U.S. Copyright Group’s massive subpoena for customer information, saying that it is too burdensome and that the lawsuit, which included a filling against over 2,000 suspected file sharers, should be broken up into individual cases. TWC also cites discovery abuses, claiming that the U.S. Copyright Group misled them about the number of subpoenas they would file, filing nearly double the amount promised. If the subpoenas are quashed, then it could severely hamper the lawsuit strategy of the U.S. Copyright Group, which has filed some 20,000 plus lawsuits on the behalf of independent film makers.

2: Pirate Bay ISP Hit With German Injunction; Must Stop Hosting

Next up today, a German district court has filed an injunction against Cyberbunker ordering that the company either stop providing hosting services to The Pirate Bay or face fines as high as 250,000 Euro per infringement plus a possible two-year sentence for the company’s owner, Sven Olaf Kamphuis. Cyberbunker is a Netherlands-based company that is known for hosting sites that other hosts refuse to house and doing so with a high level of privacy and security.

3: Nonsense: Filming a Movie Being Filmed Violates Copyright

Finally today, can you be sued for copyright infringement for filming a movie being made? Paramount pictures certainly thinks that it is an infringement at least as it has filed DMCA takedown notices against several clips uploaded by a person who happened to work next to an alley where a scene from the upcoming Transformers 3 film was being shot. The claims are dubious as copyright usually reverts to the person taking the video but, to make matters more complex, similar footage taken by another bystander remains online at this time.

Suggestions

That’s it for the three count today. We will be back tomorrow with three more copyright links. If you have a link that you want to suggest a link for the column or have any proposals to make it better. Feel free to leave a comment or send me an email. I hope to hear from you.

Want the Full Story?

Tune in every Wednesday evening at 6 PM ET for the live recording of the Copyright 2.0 Show or wait and get the edited version Friday right here on Plagiarism Today.

And that’s just the beginning.

Remember, as usual, this week’s linkroll is a “raw” link list. Some stories are duplicated, some do not point to their original sources and some may not be accurate. A great deal of refining goes into producing the show notes for the Copyright 2.0 Show.