Music recorded before 1972 could disappear from streaming and satellite radio as well as traditional terrestrial radio, if the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals agrees with the Recording Industry Association of America's position. The 9th Circuit is considering questions about pre-1972 music in a copyright lawsuit that was filed by the Turtles against Pandora. "Unfortunately, this is the 9th Circuit, which is somewhat famous for its wacky copyright rulings, so pretty much anything goes here," Techdirt writes.

The owner of a jewelry store in Boston is seeking to unmask a Web user who panned the shop on Yelp. The reviewer complained on Yelp about her experience selling back jewelry to the shop's owner, George Pelz. "George took all the jewelry that I had ever bought there and gave me peanuts for it!!," she allegedly wrote. Pelz is now seeking to learn the user's full name in order to sue her for defamation. The watchdog Public Citizen, which is representing Yelp, argues that consumers have the right to post anonymous complaints about businesses.

GoDaddy has prevailed in a long-running cybersquatting battle with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. U.S. District Court Judge Andre Birotte Jr. ruled this week that the Academy didn't prove that GoDaddy "had a bad faith intent to traffic in trademarks like the 'Academy Awards' and 'Oscars,'" according to The Hollywood Reporter. The lawsuit stemmed from allegations that GoDaddy allowed customers to purchase domain names like 2011Oscars.com, which were monetized through pay-per-click ads.

Three anonymous Ashley Madison users are suing Amazon and GoDaddy for intentionally inflicting emotional distress by allegedly hosting stolen Ashley Madison data on their sites. Techdirt expects the lawsuit against Amazon and GoDaddy to be dismissed. "Neither can be held responsible for copies of Ashley Madison user data uploaded to websites/online storage by third parties, and no amount of indignation is going to change that," Techdirt writes.

Last month, the Kilton Public Library in Lebanon, New Hampshire became the first library in the country to join the anonymous Web surfing service Tor. But the library recently suspended the project after learning that the Department of Homeland Security expressed concerns about the masking service.

Federal Communications Commissioner Ajit Pai says the agency's decision to classify broadband service as a utility has resulted in a 12% decline in capital expenditures by wireless carriers in the first half of this year. But he doesn't provide "cite the source of his stats, or evidence that directly ties the CAPEX decline he's citing to net neutrality," writes Karl Bode at DSLReports.

Most consumers confuse native ads with articles, according to a new study by content marketing firm Contently. For the study, Contently asked 509 consumers to look at native ads from BuzzFeed, The New York Times, the Atlantic, Forbes, the Onion and the Wall Street Journal. Most consumers thought the ads from BuzzFeed, the Times, Forbes and the Journal -- but not the Onion or the Atlantic -- were articles.

A recent study about ad blocking conducted by Adobe and Pagefair (a company that promises to help publishers "restore blocked ad inventory"),which concluded that ad blockers are costing publishers $21.8 billion this year, has "a fundamental methodology error that undermines its conclusions," according to BuzzFeed. "To get to the $21.8 billion dollar figure, it assumed that the blocked ads, if added to the overall pool of ad inventory, would command the same rates as those in a market without them," BuzzFeed writes. "But in a real world situation, if ad blocking went away, the market would flood with …

Netflix chief product officer Neil Hunt recently said the company doesn't offer customers the option of downloading movies because most users don't want the added complexity. Fortune's Jeff John Roberts proposes that the real reason is that Netflix isn't allowing downloads is that it doesn't have permission from the copyright owners. "Just as studios don’t let movie theaters sell DVDs of what they screen, they won’t simply allow Netflix customers to make a copy for later," Roberts writes. "The permission to download is a separate type of copyright, and studios don’t go around handing it out for free."

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is joining the roster of organizations suing to vacate the new text-spam rules. The organization says that the rules, passed by the Federal Communications Commission in June, are so broad that they "will expose legitimate businesses across the country -- of all sizes and types -- to liability for simply attempting in good faith to communicate with customers who previously provided valid consent to be contacted.”