IFPI has a set of brass knuckles and they are not afraid to use them. Yahoo China gets sued over new Chinese copyright laws. Antigua wins the right to pirate. Sony is last label standing with DRM. Walmart abandons online video downloads. Pyramids and mannequins are copyrightable. Tiffany sent eBay 135,000 takedown notices in 2007.

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Happy holidays! Jonathan Bailey and I recorded one early this week for you. Here are a few of the stories covered for you on the show: TorrentSpy destroys evidence - New Bubble 2.0 video without Lane's photo - Perez Hilton banned from youtube - Microsoft includes school's document in conference materials - Songza is so wrongza - Simpson parody/fair use test - Creative Commons Plus - copyright image infringement trick - source code included does not mean open source - copyright laws may be getting tougher - 2007 the year that broke the labels.

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DOJ gets backlash on Copyright Czar bill. RIAA wants you to repurchase music for every device that you listen to it on - Ripping CDs is illegal. Will this hold true to ebooks and the Kindle? Canadian DMCA on hold due to petition. GrayZone goofs up on DMCA takedown notice. TV shows want to count bittorrents in neilson ratings. Movable Type goes open source - I thought it was already :) Bubble 2.0 viral video upsets image copyright holder. Charity forced to pay copyright fees.

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PRO IP bill and WHIPER position proposed. DOJ determines $9K per song to be constitutional. MPAA violates GPL with University Tool. Brein smells the blood of other torrent sites. DRM storage devices? You heard it here first - ISP fees for unlimited music. Somebody's Gonna Feel This - and it's not Kid Rock. Scissors violate DMCA?

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Record label sales ran away with Grandma and the reindeer. Universal CEO once called iPod users thieves now he needs to figure out how to sell music in the new digital age - btw - so does Warner. Canada's DCMA too strict? Torrents are bad business models. MPAA University Toolkit is wrong on sooo many levels. Tiffany wants eBay to fight fakes.

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