Michael Fricklas, Viacom's general counsel, tells a group of Yale Law students that he's a huge fan of fair use, doesn't want to take down your YouTube mashup, and has no plans to start suing P2P users in federal courts—but he still loves DRM and "three strikes" laws.

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The city wifi system that was 'shut down by the MPAA' two weeks ago is back up. The Coshocton County courthouse based Wi-Fi system is up and running again after it was taken offline due to a single copyright infringement notice.

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Pity the lowly snow globe with white flakes raining down on a snowman or Santa Claus tucked inside its liquid dome.

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Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google's search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online.

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A bill that would have seen the government putting pressure on Uganda to withdraw its recently-tabled Anti-Homosexuality Bill has been rejected by the Senate.

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JOHN DELLA BOSCA, the MP being described as ''delusional'' by colleagues, believes he can still be premier.

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A Sydney father who defamed a school principal in an email attacking her competency has been ordered to pay her $82,543 in damages.

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The Catholic Church in Poland is investigating claims of a miracle after a piece of communion wafer was reported to have been transformed into human heart tissue after falling into water during a mass.

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Susie Essman was on The Daily Show last night pushing her new book...

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Police allege that the friends, fascinated by Hollywood fashion, would case the stars' homes and then break in, taking clothing and jewelry.

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Paul Haggis, the Oscar-winning writer-director whose credits include "Crash," "Million Dollar Baby" and "Letters From Iwo Jima," has left the Church of Scientology.

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The unavoidable Balloon Boy story pretty much exposed everything that is wrong with today's media. A local scam goes national, make that international, simply because it involved a child and some cool visuals.

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In his 1796 tract, Agrarian Justice, Paine writes:

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NOTORIOUS evangelical nutjob, Danny Nalliah, has been mouthing off once again, claiming this week that "dark forces" were at work in Australia's Federal Parliament.

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Finding character witnesses when you are 6 years old is not easy. But there was Zachary Christie last week at a school disciplinary committee hearing with his karate instructor and his mother's fiancé by his side to vouch for him.

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Can we think up some great trick to play on the town supervisors in quaint and quaking Bobtown, Pennsylvania, who are OUTLAWING HALLOWEEN in order to "keep kids safe"?

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A PHARMACIST has stopped selling contraceptives because of his strong religious beliefs.

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Oh what in the sam hill is this. Whoever thought Jimmy Kimmel would turn into the late-night king?

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I am delighted by the Roman Polanski controversy. Don't get me wrong: I am horrified and disgusted by what the acclaimed director did — and admitted to — but there is an upside.

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KRAFT has again denied the iSnack 2.0 launch was a marketing stunt. And it has emerged that the food giant applied to trademark names for its new Vegemite-cream cheese blend more than two weeks before the closing date of a national competiton to name the spread.

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A GROUP of entertainment companies conducting a landmark copyright claim against iiNet in the NSW federal court has withdrawn part of its case against the internet service provider.

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BABY Gloria Thomas's parents, homeopath Thomas Sam and his wife, Manju, have been jailed for failing to obtain proper medical help to treat their daughter's chronic eczema.

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Consumer uproar over iSnack2.0 has forced Kraft to concede that its new Vegemite-cream cheese blend might have to be renamed.

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Pity the theatregoer whose persistently ringing mobile phone caused Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig to stop their Broadway show and ask it be answered.

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A California federal judge has ordered Google to temporarily de-activate a Gmail account after a bank mistakenly sent sensitive data to the account.

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