CopyNight Is Monday (10/26) at 6:30 PM at Teaism

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Hi CopyNighters,
CopyNight is on for our regularly scheduled 4th Monday of the month, the 26th of October. Much has happened in the realm of copyright and related areas this past month, so we have plenty of potential topics for discussion.
CopyNight DC
6:30 PM, Monday, October 26th, 2009
Teaism - 400 8th St. NW (Chinatown or Archives Metro)
Here are some stories for consideration:
The recent Access Copyright demand to the Canadian government that format shifting/time shifting is "never ok".
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/copyright-collective-free-format-time-shifting-never-ok.ars
A New York court has ruled that cell phone ringtones do not require a public performance license to be played.
http://www.mediabistro.com/baynewser/our_digital_lives/federal_court_cell_phone_ringtones_dont_violate_copyright_140277.asp
Analyzing the latest ruling in the Verner case re: first sale doctrine
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/autocad-resale-ruling-a-messy-win-for-first-sale-doctrine.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
ArsTechnica's "100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words"
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/100-years-of-big-content-fearing-technologyin-its-own-words.ars
The collapse of any reasonable fair use defense for Shepard Fairey
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/17/arts/AP-US-AP-Poster-Artist.html?_r=1&hp
Illegal Downloads 150x More Profitable Than Legal Sales
http://torrentfreak.com/illegal-downloads-150x-more-profitable-than-legal-sales-091009/
Peter Hirtle writes about Blackwell v. Miller fair use coursepack case
http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2009/10/bad-and-maybe-some-good-news-for-educational-fair-use-1.html
House of Representatives takes step toward opening up Congressional Research Service reports to the public
http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=3885
News of an interesting new site consistent with RECAP and other recent efforts.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/13/repository-of-freedo.html
We also have one brief announcement. After some discussion, Joe and I have agreed that shifting the coordination of CopyNight moving forward from him to me makes better sense in light of increased demands on his time from his day job. We're still working through the mailing list logistics which may coincide with some other future changes from CopyNight HQ (stay tuned) but that should not affect getting announcements out on time.
If you have a Wave account, I have also started a public Wave for discussion of this month's DC CopyNight (I am cmdln.net@googlewave.com on Wave). It is just an experiment, part of figuring out how to improve monthly planning and sustaining the discussion between meetings. I'd also be open to discussion of this and other ideas for experiments at the end or after the regular meeting on the 26th.
See you there!
Thomas Gideon
dc@copynight.org