Los Angeles - Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign has responded to a lawsuit from singer Jackson Browne, alleging copyright infringement for unauthorized use of his song "Running on Empty" in a campaign ad, by making a claim of "fair use," Wired.com reports.

Berlin - Google (NASD: GOOG) has appealed a pair of court losses in Germany that found that its Image Search service, which indexes thumbnail images of pictures from across the Web, violates the image owners' copyrights, the Associated Press reported.

San Bruno, Calif. - Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube has rejected a request from the McCain presidential campaign for a more thorough legal review of copyright takedown requests made on campaign videos it has posted to the site, CNET News.com reports. The McCain campaign yesterday sent a letter to YouTube, complaining that several of its videos were taken down after copyright owners complained of infringements in the videos -- which the McCain campaign contends made "fair use" of the copyrighted materials.

Hamburg, Germany - Google (NASD: GOOG) has lost two copyright lawsuits in Germany, where courts have ruled that the thumbnails of larger images the company creates for its Image Search engine violate copyrights, Bloomberg reported.

Stanford, Calif. - Major record label EMI and recording artist Yoko Ono have withdrawn all copyright infringement claims against Premise Media, the producers of a documentary called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" that uses a 15-second clip of a John Lennon song.

Washington - The Digital Media Association (DiMA), a trade group that represents webcasters and online retailers like Apple and Amazon, on Friday asked a federal court to rule that online retailers' use of 30-second music preview clips are "fair use," and not subject to royalty payments.

Los Angeles - A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that copyright holders must consider the potential "fair use" of their works before sending copyright takedown notices to online video sites. "In order for a copyright owner to proceed under the DMCA with 'a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law,' the owner must evaluate whether the material makes fair use of the copyright," U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel wrote, in his ruling.

King of Prussia, Pa. - Days after being served a copyright infringement lawsuit by broadcasters NBC (NYSE: GE) and Fox News (NYSE: NWS), Web video clipping service Redlasso announced on Friday that it will suspend access to its clipping service. "We believe we have always acted within the law and have been respectful of the networks rights. Unfortunately, they have forced our hand and are denying the blogging community access to the Redlasso platform that beneficially tracks the usage of newsworthy clips across the Web," said Ken Hayward, CEO of Redlasso.

New York - NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) and News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) Fox News Channel and Fox Television Stations have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Redlasso, an online service that offers clips of news broadcasts and other video and audio content to bloggers for republishing online, The Wall Street Journal reported.