Feds seize 82 domains accused of selling counterfeit goods; ArsTechnica.com, 11/29/10

Matthew Lasar, ArsTechnica.com; Feds seize 82 domains accused of selling counterfeit goods:

"The Department of Justice has obtained seizure orders against a slew of commercial websites accused of selling a wide variety of counterfeit commodities, including DVD box sets, music, software, sports equipment and handbags—82 sites all told."

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/11/feds-seize-82-domains-selling-counterfeit-goods.ars

Supreme Court Won’t Hear RIAA File Sharing Case; Wired.com, 11/29/10

David Kravets, Wired.com; Supreme Court Won’t Hear RIAA File Sharing Case:

"The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear the first Recording Industry Association of America file sharing case to cross its desk, in a case that tested the so-called “innocent infringer” defense to copyright infringement."

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/innocent/

U.S. Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown; New York Times, 11/27/10

Michael Sisario, New York Times; U.S. Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown:

"In announcing that operation, John T. Morton, the assistant secretary of ICE, and representatives of the Motion Picture Association of America called it a long-term effort against online piracy, and said that suspected criminals would be pursued anywhere in the world. “American business is under assault from counterfeiters and pirates every day, seven days a week,” Mr. Morton said. “Criminals are stealing American ideas and products and distributing them over the Internet.”"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27torrent.html?_r=1&hpw

U.S. seizes sites linked to copyright infringement; CNet News, 10/26/10

Steven Musil, CNet News; U.S. seizes sites linked to copyright infringement:

"The U.S. government has launched a major crackdown on online copyright infringement, seizing dozens of sites linked to illegal file sharing and counterfeit goods."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20023918-93.html

Murdoch wins two copyright actions; (London) Guardian, 11/25/10

Roy Greenslade, (London) Guardian; Murdoch wins two copyright actions:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/nov/25/rupert-murdoch-medialaw

Swedish Court Upholds Convictions in File-Sharing Case; New York Times, 11/26/10

New York Times via Associated Press; Swedish Court Upholds Convictions in File-Sharing Case:

"The Svea Appeals Court agreed with a lower court ruling that found the three men, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrom, guilty of helping users of the site to break Sweden’s copyright law."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27pirate.html?_r=1&hpw

Can We Create a National Digital Library?; New York Review of Books, 10/28/10

Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books; Can We Create a National Digital Library?:

"The following talk was given at the opening of a conference at Harvard on October 1 to discuss the possibility of creating a National Digital Library.

The purpose of this meeting is to discuss a question of vital importance to the cultural life of our country: Can we create a National Digital Library? That is, a comprehensive library of digitized books that will be easily accessible to the general public. Simple as it sounds, the question is extraordinarily complex. It involves issues that concern the nature of the library to be built, the technological difficulties of designing it, the legal obstacles to getting it off the ground, the financial costs of constructing and maintaining it, and the political problems of mobilizing support for it."

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/oct/28/can-we-create-national-digital-library/