GateHouse, NY Times Settlement

GateHouse Media and the NY Times reached an agreement over the weekend regarding the Boston Globe's alleged copyright infringement of posting headlines and lead sentences from the NY Times website. Trial was scheduled to begin today.

South Carlonia now has their own copyright

In a South Carolina Supreme Court opinion, the court ruled that a municipality has a copyright in their own forms and such copyright does not impact the state's freedom of information act. Maybe somebody forgot 28 USC 1338 which states: "The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action arising under any Act of Congress relating to patents, plant variety protection, copyrights and trademarks. Such jurisdiction shall be exclusive of the courts of the states in patent, plant variety protection and copyright cases."