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The Pirate Bay verdict goes English, and we dish the dirt - Ars Technica.

Google Agrees to Books Settlement Delay - WIRED

Apple Accused of Stifling Speech About the iPod, iPhone - WIRED

Senator: open source software needed for medical records - Ars Technica.

MPAA-RealDVD Trial Portends Legality of DVD Copying | Threat Level from Wired.com.

Wikipedia lawsuit could put it on the wrong side of fair use - Ars Technica.

“Two artists attempted to create a performance art piece by establishing a Wikipedia entry entitled ‘Wikipedia Art,’ which could then be freely edited …. [D]iscussion of the project is being threatened by the Wikimedia Foundation’s legal counsel, which has effectively threatened to pursue legal action against the artists for trademark infringement.”

The case against PACER: tearing down the courts’ paywall - Ars Technica.

The Pirate Bay Guilty; Jail for File-Sharing Foursome | Threat Level from Wired.com.

The Pirate Bay verdict: guilty, with jail time - Ars Technica.

Law Librarian Blog: Should LexisNexis and Thomson West Be Worried About the Economy’s Turbulence?

“Faced with substantial budget cuts to library collections and legal research policy changes, we think it timely to ask if law librarians are seeing a shift to free and low cost legal research services at the expense of Lexis and Westlaw use.”

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Court: Congress can’t put public domain back into copyright - Ars Technica.