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"Late Friday, the federal district court in Nevada issued a declaratory judgment that makes is harder for copyright holders to file lawsuits over excerpts of material and burden online forums and their users with nuisance lawsuits." The judgment - part of the nuisance lawsuit avalanche started by copyright troll Righthaven - found that Democratic Underground did not infringe the copyright in a Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper article when a user of the online political forum posted a five-sentence excerpt, with a link back to the newspaper's website. 

Course it's not piracy - that's something that happens on the high seas. And it's also not p2p either, which is used as a measure by RIANZ for copyright infringement.

Who is requesting takedown, for what and when. Google is transparent about requests made regarding copyright infringement notices.

Minor infringements in OER platforms could close the whole system down.

Report on copyright 'infringement'. It doesn't mention that many of its 'hits' relate to material used under US Fair Use legislation, therefore not infringing copyright.

InternetNZ post on the passing of the flawed copyright (internet) infringement bill

The new law with a typically ambiguous definition of file sharing.