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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They have lost their minds here in California - California Secretary of State Debra Bowen today announced proponents of a new initiative may begin collecting petition signatures for their measure:

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Two Cambridge mates say they may turn their unusual method of trimming hedges into a business, after they suspended a ride-on mower from a crane to do the job.

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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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SPRINGFIELD - A baby girl has been reunited with her mother after the family car was stolen in front of a laundromat with the child inside.

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What Are Your Driving Pet Peeves?

It's Friday the 13th and drivers are behaving accordingly. You know you need to get that frustration out of your system. I'm just curious what sort of driving faux pas send others over the edge.

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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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The dilemma over how limited supplies of the H1N1 vaccine should be distributed was underscored today as government health officials defended their allocation of vaccine to Wall Street firms.

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Police in Perth say they may have solved two crimes after finding a suspected burglar asleep on the job.

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A staff member of the right-wing NSW Liberal MP David Clarke has stood aside after being linked to a spoof You Tube video involving Adolf Hitler.

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A GROUP of past and present University of Sydney students set up a ''pro-rape'' page in the sports and recreation section on Facebook, describing themselves as ''anti-consent''.

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The small hand-held wand, with a telescopic antenna on a swivel, is being used at hundreds of checkpoints in Iraq. But the device works "on the same principle as a Ouija board" — the power of suggestion — said a retired United States Air Force officer, Lt. Col.

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A British man on the run from police sent a picture of himself to his local paper because he disliked the mug shot they had printed of him as part of a public appeal to track him down.

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The two Bic multipurpose lighters and a package of smaller lighters Joe Paolucci bought at the Niles Wal-Mart on Aug. 16 cost $15.84.

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The bizarre case of the Huntington Beach man charged with trying to burn down Orange County Church of Christ not one, two, three but four times (!) just keeps getting bizarrer.

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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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BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Officers in Beatrice talked a man into dropping the pry bar he was brandishing, then arrested him for breaking into the sheriff's department offices.

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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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A man who killed a Regional Center doctor erupted in a rage this afternoon inside a Douglas County coutroom.

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DARKER STILL... Is anyone listening. Things don't just happen!

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It probably is best not to fiddle with switches or controls when riding in the back seat of an air force plane.

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A luckless Indian romeo is suing Lynx after he failed to land a single girlfriend during seven years of using their products.

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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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