New orphan works legislation being drafted. MSN Music DRM leaves customers hanging. Louis Vutton suing charity fund raiser. Metallica embraces file sharing? Madonna signs with LiveNation. NIN releases single track. <- The 3 stars align - could this be the future business model for the record industry? Pirate Bay promotes Tell-a-friend strategy. YouTube and Hulu video streaming are bigger bandwidth hogs than P2P - duh. Okami uses copyrighted art work in packaging - even displays original watermark.

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Jonathan Bailey and Chris Matthieu interview Patrick O'Keefe (http://www.patrickokeefe.com), the author of Managing Online Forums. Patrick did an excellent job fielding unorganized questions and relating the answers to copyrights and community. You can learn more about the book at http://www.managingonlineforums.com. Other show stories include JK Rowling, The Pirate Bay (shocker), Cindy McCain, Lonely Planet, Fox News, Comcast, Assassin's Creed, Restaurant Identity Theft, and a tussle with Yoko Ono.

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EU believes that MPAA and others should not be forcing ISPs to boot users. Norwegian ISP pushes back on T0ndel. Operation Fair Use Whisper Campaign underway. UMG extends copyrights to trash cans. Demonoid back online but under new admin. Walmart gets schooled on copyright ownership. Pandora TV (Korea) gets sued for YouTube-like video sharing. Is Chris Daughtry’s song original? MSN India gets caught plagiarizing. Open source can still be pirated. U"W" copyright April Fools prank. YMCA-like DMCA take down notice a joke.

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Law disputes over distribution vs. publication. ISPs in UK and Norway speaking out about not being Internet cops. U of Maine student law body takes on RIAA. Lawyer threatening file sharers is banned for 6 months. Can lectures be copyrighted? MySpace Music with DRM-free music looks to take on iTunes and Amazon. Joi Ito gets hired as new Creative Commons CEO. Google CIO leaves to take the helm of EMI. EMI suffers setback in case against MP3Tunes. Movie Director flattered by the piracy of his film. Superman returns to Papa. Perez Hilton threatens to stop blogging.

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