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Issued: March 2009. Big companies are starting to crack down on copyright infringements. With over 15 lawsuits in 2007, the number of lawsuits targeted against blogs has started to rapidly rise. The author, Brian Stelter, is a writer for New York Times who's main focus is on television and the digital media. This article seems to be aimed at the big companies who the author believes are unfairly digging into to copyright laws. The article mentions a lot of disputes such as the ones between New York Times and Gate House Media, Silicon Alley Insider and The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press and All Headlines News and others. Most of the websites getting sued were blogs or newspaper websites that quoted other people's works, assuming it would be okay under the "fair use" statute of copyright laws.

i went to the New York Times online to search the term, "copyright" to get an article relating to copyright issues or infringement. this article by Brian Stelter was published on March 1st, 2009. Stelter is a journalist for the New York Times. Stelter sides with the people who claim to be getting copyrighted. He bases the majority of his article against the bloggers and other online publishes "who seem to be on the rise." He also questions when excerpting from an article becomes illegal copying. Although he mostly sides with the people claiming to be copyrighted he also sheds light on those bloggers and online publishers whom give credit to those sites they excerpted information from. Statler keeps bringing up the issue of "excerpting to find value" in which online publishers combine articles to validate their thesis. In the end, Statler shows both sides of the story and doesn't leave out any information regarding the thoughts of both parties.

By BRIAN STELTER Published: March 1, 2009 Brian Stelter focuses on a quotation from the Silicon Alley Insider which quoted a quarter of Peggy Noonan's Wall Street Journal. "We thank Dow Jones in advance for allowing us to bring it to you." The editor added "in advance" because Dow Jones, the publisher of The Journal, had not given the blog permission to use the column. With this particular instance of copyright infringement and others, Stetler brings light to the fact that permission isn't being given between different industries when taking direct quotations or titles from that industries publication. "Some media executives are growing concerned that the increasingly popular curators of the Web that are taking large pieces of the original work - a practice sometimes called scraping - are shaving away potential readers and profiting from the content." He also brings up the numerous lawsuits that arise because of copyright infringement.

Date issued: January 7, 2010. An article from Law Vibe. Written by C.C. at International Law News/Lawyer Lifestyle. The article was written about what in the writer's opinion were the top ten biggest copyright infringement lawsuits between 2000 and 2009. Cases such as "Napster shuts down", "Apple sues Pystar", and UMG and Viacom take on Veoh and Youtube" lead the article. A reoccurring theme in the business of copyright lawsuits seems to be illegal file sharing online. Many websites that provided options for illegally downloading music have been sued or shut down over the years, including Napster and Pirate Bay. Modeling agencies such as Perfect 10 sued Google over copyrighted pictures of their models showing up online, the courts however ruled this fair use and the case has since been closed. This article shows a brief history of how copyrighting has become a central legal issue over the past decade and how various companies and defendants have dealt with the cases presented to them.

15 Companies That Might Not Survive 2009

Fashionising.com- Fashion Insight Podcast. Date Broadcasted: December 17, 2009. Genre: Fashion. Daniel P Dykes, Editor in Chief and Chairman of Fashionising.com, Tania Braukämper, the Editor, and Allan James Barger, the Pictorial Editor, discuss the highs and lows of the fashion trends in the last decade in this podcast, and the new ones in the next decade. Their favorite trends began with hot pants to knee high socks, to dresses with high slits, which all became popular in 2009, and will continue to grow in 2010. The main shift in style will be toward the "future warrior and gladiator look," such as leather accessories with studs and spikes, which is a more modern than the inspired ancient Roman and Greek fashion. This fashion craze is going in the opposite direction than the trends from the last decade, where the preppy, "school-girl" look was popular, due to the hit TV series, Gossip Girl. Additionally, the hair trend of braids, shown on the Alexander Wang carpet, is growing to be very desirable. One of the notorious styles was nudity being portrayed on the covers of many magazines, which all three individuals were not favorable of. Tania mentioned the "convergence of the alternative and the mainstream," which has been accessible through the internet. Speaking of the internet, Daniel and Allan talk over the continuation of the production of fashion websites where they sell high end, luxury clothing for 50-70% off. The future of 2010's fashion industry could be changed from the internet. Another aspect of the past decade shows the rise and downfall of celebrity fashion, because many civilians are not interested in the dramatic lives of celebrities anymore; instead, they would prefer models, such as Lara Stone, presenting clothing trends. Overall the changes in trends from the last decade into 2010 is miscellaneous, and fashionising.com's podcast informs the listener on what to watch out for.

"This LipDub has been produced during the integration week of UQAM (Quebec, Canada) with 172 communication students. Made on September 10th 2009 in 2h15min."

In 2009 we embarked on a project to take close-up, wide-angle photographs of African animals. To accomplish this we created BeetleCam, a small remote control buggy with a DSLR camera mounted on top.

What Andy Clarke is trying to say is that although twitter is a very social site, it can not be used to its full potential because not as many ideas are exchanged. This is because people are afraid of their ideas being stolen, but with this new creative commons copyright partnership, people will never have to worry anymore. It allows people top share ideas and both get the amount of credit they deserve. Although this can be unnecessary for basic, "I just got milk at the store," tweets, it will be amazing for people who want to share ideas whether, they're intellectual or not.

Clarke is a world renown British web designer and author.

This article was written by Chris Snyder an email author for Wired on February 20, 2009

Date issued: April 17th, 2009. This article from wired.com by David Kravets deals with a lawsuit filed by students against turnitin.com. The students claimed this website was breaching the copyrights the students owned for the essays they wrote. There was a countersuit filed against one of the students accusing because the student in question was already cheating the essays he was writing. This article discusses the problem of whether your work is really yours and is just another step in the process of trying to make rules to govern the internet.

This article discusses the chance of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 coming back to create tumult in the musical business. This could be caused due to provisions that allow authors or their heirs to terminate copyright grants.The Copyright Act includes two sets of rules which are If an artist or author sold a copyright before 1978, they or their heirs can take it back 56 years later. If the artist or author sold the copyright during or after 1978, they can terminate that grant after 35 years.

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This article talks about how advertisers such as Dominoes and Italian Americans groups are boycotting against the TV show "Jersey Shore". Dominoes has stopped advertising for "Jersey Shore" and is influencing other advertisers to follow. The largest Italian American group is the US ,Unico's, president Andre Demint and is telling all members to boycott by refusing to watch this show.

"Jersey Shore," the MTV reality show that claims to lift the veil over "one of the Tri-state area's most misunderstood species … the GUIDO" (as per its press materials), is offensive to Italian-Americans and shouldn't air, says Andre Dimino, the president of UNICO, the national Italian-American service organization based in Fairfield.

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/celebrities/index.ssf/2009/11/jersey_shore_offends_italian-a.html This article sets out trying to defend MTV's newest show, Jersey Shore by supplying 5 redeeming qualities. The author can only think of four! The first being, the Jersey shore is not actually that interesting and this portrayal will attract a lot of teenagers and young adults looking for the fun times shown on the program, boosting Jersey Shore's tourism rates and their economy. Two: this show will kill off the show "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," a show that the author apparently dislikes more than Jersey Shore. Three: young people need bad examples to learn what not to do. And four: Now we can shut down all the things that led to the Actors stupidity and bad judgments like the schools they frequented.

The residents of Seaside Heights, the town where the MTV show "Jersey Shore" takes place along with Italian-Americans throughout the country are outraged how the show's cast members wear the terms "guido" and "guidet" with pride. Italian-American organizations are demanding the show should be canceled and many companies have stopped advertising for the show. Overall many Italians are upset that the cast members of the television show are proving that the stereotype of Italian-Americans are real in some cases.

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2009/11/25/italian-american-group-asks-mtv-cancel-jersey-shore/ This article on Fox News talks about how two Italian American organizations UNICO and DiMino are against the show MTV Jersey Shore and that they want the show to be pulled off the air. They say that the show portrays Italian Americans negatively. I disagree....

this article discusses how young minds do not feel affected by the stereotypes in Jersey Shore, and how they neglect them.

Updated "Did You Know" video, Fall 2009.

Specialists discuss foods myths and clarify the facts. I highlighted two sections in which marketing is the source of the rumor--according to some authors, the media has convinced us that sugar is better than high fructose corn syrup and that antioxidant drinks are healthy...