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After SOPA protest day

What did the protests accomplish? [Image of one-day change in Hill opposition courtesy TechCrunch, PC World, Timothy Lee/Ars Technica] Some of the best protests [Ad Age, earlier on Flickr's clever...

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O lawmakers, heed not the mob’s wrath

They understand not the wisdom of SOPA [Julian Sanchez, Cato at Liberty] Tweet Tags: RIAA and file sharing O lawmakers, heed not the mob’s wrath is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost...

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The gang that couldn’t shake down straight

Scam pretend-lawyers pose as real Hollywood lawyers firing off nastygrams to shake cash out of illicit downloaders. [Above the Law] Tweet Tags: copyright, fraud, nastygrams, RIAA and file sharing The...

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Spanish professor says recording industry group violates antitrust law

And the next thing you know, they sue him [Josh Wright, Mike Masnick] The blog post by Enrique Dans, who is professor of information systems at IE Business School, is here. Tweet Tags: antitrust,...

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Great moments in damages calculation? Nope

Update: That’s what we get for posting hastily on a holiday weekend. We — and a great many other sites from CBS News to Business Insider to The Onion — took the below report seriously, but per Mike...

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Copyright and D.C. lobbying: that was fast

The House Republican Study Committee calls for reconsideration of over-restrictive copyright law, then un-calls for it a day later [TechDirt, rueful update; Alex Tabarrok] P.S. And check out this...

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July 18 roundup

“This is just stunning. DOJ is soliciting tips from the public in order to build a case against a single citizen.” [@radleybalko, William Jacobson, @andrewmgrossman] Apparently, Florida Gov. Rick...

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“You could be liable for $150,000 in penalties…”

“…settle instead for $20 per song.” Rightscorp, a new for-profit copyright cop, “is now preparing technology that could flood the Internet with ‘hundreds of millions of notices’ to alleged copyright...

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Jim Hood, a go-to guy for Hollywood?

Who’d have guessed that movie studios would entrust populist Mississippi Attorney General and longtime Overlawyered favorite Jim Hood with a key role in pushing their rights as copyright owners against...

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A last laugh on ADA vs. Berkeley online courses?

Those free online course materials may be gone from the University of California, Berkeley, courtesy of a U.S. Deparment of Justice interpretation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and related...

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