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1: Facebook Employee Reveals Killer Facebook Music Feature In Deleted Tweet

First off today, Facebook is expected to announce Facebook music within the next hour but already some details seem to be leaking out as one employee, Ji Lee, Facebook’s creative directory, tweeted that “The ‘Listen with your friend’ feature in ticker is blowing my mind. Listen to what your friends are listening. LIVE” The service, supposedly a partnership with Spotify, is due to be formally announced today at Facebook’s F8 developer’s conference and is expected to provide all Facebook users with free access to millions of tracks they can listen to and share.

2: Vimeo Launches Music Store to Help you License Music for Videos

Next up today, not to be outdone by Facebook’s music announcement, Vimeo has made one of their own. However, this one is geared toward using music in videos, not toward listening. Vimeo has launched a music store where users can license musics from a variety of sources, including fee Creative Commons tracks and paid tracks. The bulk of the tracks, some 33,000, come from Audiosocket while another 11,000 come from Creative Commons sources. The cost is free for Creative Commons tracks, $2 for paid tracks for personal use and $98 per paid track for professional use. Vimeo makes it easy to find the track you need by search for mood, tempo or genre of the song you want.

3: Movie Institute Feels Pain Of IP Address-Only Piracy ‘Evidence’

Finally today, the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) has been deflecting accusations that it uploaded several movies to The Pirate Bay after an anti-piracy firm traced the films back to IP addresses owned by the organization. However, SFI has responded to the accusations saying that the addresses in question are shared not just by every employee of the organization but by other tenants in the building and even an open wifi in the lobby. Despite this, the SFI audited its firewalls and logs and said that no wrongdoing could be found. The antipiracy firm involved, DoubleTrace, has refused to turn over its evidence to the SFI, which SFI says bars it from doing a more complete investigation.

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1: RIAA’s Losing Gamble: Spends $63M For Copyright Suits

First off today, reports are coming in that, over the past few years, the RIAA spent an estimates $63 million on attorneys and only recouped about $1.4 million in settlements and judgements. Many have concluded this played a role in the RIAA’s decision to cease its lawsuit campaign against individual file sharers. Despite that campaign ending, the RIAA is still dealing with ongoing cases, such as the Tenenbaum and Thomas cases.

2: International anti-counterfeiting talks hit snags says EU

Next up today, the ACTA treaty, the controversial new anti-counterfeiting and copyright treaty that has been negotiated largely in secret between most major copyright countries, has hit a snag it seems as EU negotiators are complaining that the U.S. wants to limit the treaty to copyright and trademark issues and not cover geographical indications. To make matters worse, the April revisions to the treaty have not been released, even after earlier drafts were made publicly available. However, it was confirmed that border searches for copyright infringing works would not be taking place and the treaty would not force countries to adopt a “three strikes” system for disconnecting file sharers but could implement one if they wished.

3: Vimeo Offers Creative Commons Licensing Options to its Members

Finally today, video-sharing site Vimeo has integrated Creative Commons Licenses into their service. Users can now license their videos under various CC licenses using their video’s settings and not having to edit the video to insert the license directly. This follows Blip.tv and other video sharing sites that have done similar integrations.

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

It was a busy week for copyright news last week as copyright holders, courts and judges begin to wind down for the year and clean off their plates for the holidays and the new year. However, not all of the action was in the courtroom, with plenty going on in Congress and even a really good blog storm.

All in all, there were thirteen stories this week including news from all over the copyright world including our “Weird Story of the Week”.

This week’s stories include:

• Apple Gets Injunction vs. Psystar
• Plurk Accuses Microsoft of Plagiarism
• Electronics Makers Sued Over GPL Violations
• Vimeo is Sued by EMI over Lip Dubs
• George Lucas Had One Very Frustrating Day
• And Many more…

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Show Notes

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1: Game Over for Mac Clone Maker Psystar

First off today, Mac clone maker Psystar has now been given a permanent injunction against selling computers with Apple’s OSX operating system pre-installed, finalizing a temporary one handed down earlier and putting an end to this case, or at least this element of it.

Psystar was sued for making and selling “hackintosh” systems that included OSX but were not official Apple products, something Apple’s license with OSX prohibits. The two had reached a partial settlement more recently where Psystar agreed to stop selling computers with OSX preinstalled but, with this injunction filed, it appears the issue was moot.

However, the case is not totally resolved. Psystar still distributes a product called Rebel EFI that customers can use to install OSX on their computer. It is unclear if this is covered by the injunction, the judge, however, indicated that Psystar is in a gray area with it saying that “Whether Rebel EFI violates the terms of the injunction set forth in this order is a factual issue more appropriate for a contempt action.”

Psystar had stopped selling computers with OSX sometime earlier this month, switching instead to selling plain systems with Rebel EFI. Psystar, however still has until December 31 to comply with the order.

2: Vimeo Accused Of Copyright Infringement For Encouraging Lip Dubs

Video-sharing site Vimeo is on the receiving end of a lawsuit from the record label EMI, which accuses the site of encouraging users to make “lip dub” videos where they pretend to sing popular songs, including those by EMI artists. EMI alleges that Vimeo not only hosts the lip dub videos, but encourages and instructs its users on how to make them.

The legal issues are murky in this case. Though safe harbor protection normally prevents sites such as Vimeo from being held responsible for infringement by users, if it can be showed they had “actual knowledge” of the infringement, they can lose those protections. Likewise, the Grokster ruling says that companies who “induce” infringement can be held liable.

However, there is also an issue as to whether or not lip dub videos are infringing or are a fair use.

Vimeo has not responded but you can rest assured I will be following this lawsuit very carefully.

3: FBI Makes Arrest in ‘Wolverine’ Uploading Case

Finally today, the FBI, after a lengthy investigation, has made an arrest in the leak of the latest Wolverine movie, which was leaked onto file sharing networks and viewed some 4.1 million times before reaching theaters.

Gilberto Sanchez, from Bronx, NY, was arrested Wednesday morning. An unsealed grand jury indictment accuses Sanchez of uploading the video to the site Megaupload under the names “theSkilled1″ and “SkillyGilly” but it is unclear how he obtained a copy of the film and if he was the source of the leak.

If convicted, Sanchez faces up to three years in prison and a fine up to $250,000 or two times the gross gain or loss, whichever is greater.

Wolverine went on to do very well at the box office, grossing almost $375 million in ticket sales. Fox, the studio behind the film, has expressed support for the actions of the FBI and the FBI Los Angeles field office, which is leading the investigation, has not ruled out more arrests.

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