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Preliminary Thoughts on GateHouse Media v. New York Times Company

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Like a storm coming over the horizon, the recent lawsuit filed by GateHouse Media against the New York Times Company, which operates Boston.com, has thrown the CMLP into disarray just as we were preparing to depart to warmer climes for the holidays.

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GateHouse v NY Times Co.: Not So Simple After All

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One of the most intriguing current media legal cases pits GateHouse Media, which owns a pile of newspapers in New England (and elsewhere) against the New York Times Co., owner of the Boston Globe and Boston.com. I’ve been looking at this from both sides’ perspectives, and this is not as simple as it looks on first glance.

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Huffington Post Criticized For Copying Content

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Wired/Epicenter alerts us to the controversy swirling around the Huffington Post's new Chicago edition.  Last week, Whet Moser of the Chicago Reader caught the Huffington Post using an entire Rea

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Blogger Pleads Guilty to Copyright Infringement for Leaking Songs from Guns N' Roses Album

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Kevin Cogill, a blogger on Antiquiet, which provides "uncensored music reviews and interviews," pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Los Angeles to one count of misdemeanor criminal copyright infringement after he allegedly posted nine songs from the then unreleased Guns N' Roses album "Chi

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Copyright, Politics, and McCain's Request for Special Treatment

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Last week we reported that the McCain campaign had sent a letter to YouTube complaining that its campaign videos were being removed from YouTube as a result of unjustified DMCA takedown requests sent by news organizations whose footage was included in the videos.

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German Courts Say Nein to Google Image Search

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Google appears to be learning the hard way that there's "kein fairer Gebrauch" (no fair use) in Germany.  The Internet search giant lost two German copyright decisions Monday, as the courts ruled that the thumbnail images that appear in Google Image Search violate German copyright law.  Bloomberg reports:

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McCain's YouTube Takedowns Inspire Fair Use Fervor

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There's nothing like a misfired copyright claim to make a presidential campaign see the value of fair use.

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