• The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University is hiring a volunteer Summer Intern.
• Howard Knopf at Excess Copyright speculates that the “Buy America” provisions of H.R. 1 could lead to a new trade agreement between the U.S. and Canada:

Would it include a promise not to curtail oil and gas supplies to the USA, or not to fight about water, to stay longer in Afghanistan, or – and this [is] where this gets quite relevant to this blog – to enact a DMCA North version of American copyright law satisfactory to the American entertainment industry?

• Brian Higgins at Maryland IP Law Blog compiled a chart of the number of copyright lawsuit filings by state during the last year.  No surprise up top, with CA at 669 and NY at 361.  But TN coming eleventh with only 58 filings . . . my how things have changed over the past five or six years.
• An artist alleged that Sean Combs’ “Unforgivable” perfume bottle (on right) infringes his sculpture (on left).

• Two reasons I love the intertubes: Ben Sheffner levels sharp criticism of an article Mike Masnick on Techdirt about the appointment of Jennifer Pariser as the RIAA’s new top litigator.  Mike Masnick levels sharp criticism of an article concerning songwriters that Ben Sheffner featured on his site.
• Ross E. Davies, Professor of Law at George Mason and editor in chief of the Green Bag, posted an article on the precipitous drop in printed law review circulation.  Harvard Law Review, as just one example, dropped from a print circulation of 8836 in ’80-’81 to 2610 in ’07-’08.
• EFF is looking for people who had their YouTube videos, that may have merited a fair use defense, taken down when Warner Music Group broke ties.
• David Oxenford at Broadcast Law Blog provides a political update on the DTV extension.
• And finally, Amplify Your Voice was able to find another person who had the video of the allegedly federally funded Derek Dye the Abstinence Clown.   (h/t Daily Kos.)