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A federal judge ruled in favor of a defendant who reposted an entire article in a copyright case on Monday, Wired reports. The lawsuit was brought by Righthaven, a Las Vegas-based "copyright litigation factory," according to Wired, that has sued more than 200 websites, bloggers, and commenters for copyright infringement. This particular lawsuit targeted Wayne Hoehn, who posted an entire editorial from the Las Vegas Review-Journal and its headline, "Public Employee Pensions: We Can't Afford Them" on a website medjacksports.com.

Echoes of Shepard Fairey.  Fair use defenses based on the transformative nature of the work are expense and often "won" by copyright holders on the basis of the cost of defense.

A judge in Australia has ordered the songwriters behind Men at Work 's 1980s hit "Down Under" to give up 5 percent of the song royalties after a court battle over copyright claiming the flute solo in the track sampled parts of "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree," a song written by an Australian music teacher for the Girl Guides in 1934.

Aside from the obvious copyright and legal issues, I feel like this is just plain bad politics. It would be far better for Reid to post his own opinions to discount Angle's and wouldn't make him look like a thief...and would be more ethical as well.

Actually, I find this article really interesting! This type of hard-core politics is either going to make or break Reid, who's numbers are already suffering. He's either really desperate or not afraid to pull out his guns.

Response to criticism of the Google Book Settlement by Amazon's Jeff Bezos.

Interesting video of the Google Book Search settlemnt.

from The Chronicle of Higher Education

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