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Fox Television Forces Shutdown of Progress Illinois' YouTube Channel

Posted on January 06, 2009
Progress Illinois, which "provides online news and commentary on issues important to Illinois working families and the progressive movement at large," has had its YouTube channel terminated after receiving three notices of copyright infringement from Fox Television Stations, Inc...

GateHouse Media v. New York Times Trial Set for Late January

Posted on January 05, 2009
Things are moving quickly in the GateHouse Media v. New York Times Company lawsuit we posted about (here, here) before the holidays. Judge Young of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts decided to combine GateHouse's motion for a preliminary injunction with a full trial on the merits and initially set the hearing for today...

Clueless Authors: Government Censorship Better than Corporate

Posted on December 31, 2008
LA Observed has a post about how KRON TV in San Francisco disinvited the authors of a new book from a talk-show appearance after discovering that the book, No Time to Think: The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-hour News Cycle, takes shots at the crappy state of local TV news...

Authors: Government Censorship Better than Corporate

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Preliminary Thoughts on GateHouse Media v. New York Times Company

Posted on December 23, 2008
Like a storm coming over the horizon, the recent lawsuit filed by GateHouse Media against the New York Times Company, which operates Boston.com, has thrown the CMLP into disarray just as we were preparing to depart to warmer climes for the holidays. For those who haven't yet heard about this case, here is a bit of background...

GateHouse v NY Times Co.: Not So Simple After All

Posted on December 23, 2008
One of the most intriguing current media legal cases pits GateHouse Media, which owns a pile of newspapers in New England (and elsewhere) against the New York Times Co., owner of the Boston Globe and Boston.com. I?ve been looking at this from both sides? perspectives, and this is not as simple as it looks on first glance...

You Aren't as Free as You Think - Your Private Emails Can Land You in Jail

Posted on December 23, 2008
In the latest case involving the absurd and unconstitutional obscenity statutes, the Fourth Circuit has upheld a conviction of a man for mere private possession of allegedly obscene material. See United States v. Whorley, __F.3d__ (4th Cir. 2008). While the facts may not fit any conduct in which you might engage, the logic could very well ensnare you one day...

Preliminary Thoughts on GateHouse Media v. New York Times Company

GateHouse v NY Times Co.: Not So Simple After All

Posted on December 23, 2008
One of the most intriguing current media legal cases pits GateHouse Media, which owns a pile of newspapers in New England (and elsewhere) against the New York Times Co., owner of the Boston Globe and Boston.com. I???ve been looking at this from both sides??? perspectives, and this is not as simple as it looks on first glance...

You Aren't as Free as You Think - Your Private Emails Can Land You in Jail

Huffington Post Criticized For Copying Content

Posted on December 22, 2008
p a href="http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/huffpo-slammed.html" target="_blank"Wired/Epicenter/a alerts us to the controversy swirling around the a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/" target="_blank"Huffington Post/a's a href="http://www.huffingtonpost...

Huffington Post Criticized For Copying Content

Posted on December 22, 2008
Wired/Epicenter alerts us to the controversy swirling around the Huffington Post's new Chicago edition.?? Last week, Whet Moser of the Chicago Reader caught the Huffington Post using an entire Reader concert preview without permission. Later in the day, he discovered that the Huffington Post's Chicago Concert's page was stocked with full-text appropriations from the Reader and other sites like Time Out Chicago, Centerstage, and the Onion's Decider...

News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age

Posted on December 18, 2008
p After a year of study, countless meetings, and at least two conferences, a team of researchers at the a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/" target="_blank"Berkman Center/a have released a a href="http://www.mediarepublic.org" target="_blank"series of papers/a exploring the potential and challenges of the emerging networked digital media environment (inote: I played a small role in this work/i)...

News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age

Posted on December 18, 2008
After a year of study, countless meetings, and at least two conferences, a team of researchers at the Berkman Center have released a series of papers exploring the potential and challenges of the emerging networked digital media environment (note: I played a small role in this work)...

Cybersquatter Makes Good

Posted on December 17, 2008
p The Bush library team seems as incompetent as . . . well, as incompetent as you would imagine anyone involved with such a project would be. They procured the domain name www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com, then they forgot to renew the registration. It got picked up by a cybersquatter, Illuminati Karate...

Cybersquatter Makes Good

Posted on December 17, 2008
The Bush library team seems as incompetent as . . . well, as incompetent as you would imagine anyone involved with such a project would be. They procured the domain name www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com, then they forgot to renew the registration. It got picked up by a cybersquatter, Illuminati Karate...

Patriot Act???s National Security Letter Gag Provisions Choke on First Amendment Grounds

Posted on December 17, 2008
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals struck down one of the most constitutionally repugnant provisions of the PATRIOT Act -- the portions of the Act that place recipients of so-called "national security letters" (NSLs) under a permanent, unreviewed, lifetime gag order...

Blogger Pleads Guilty to Copyright Infringement for Leaking Songs from Guns N' Roses Album

Posted on December 16, 2008
Kevin Cogill, a blogger on Antiquiet, which provides "uncensored music reviews and interviews," pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Los Angeles to one count of misdemeanor criminal copyright infringement after he allegedly posted nine songs from the then unreleased Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy...

Patriot Act?s National Security Letter Gag Provisions Choke on First Amendment Grounds

Posted on December 16, 2008
p The Second Circuit Court of Appeals struck down one of the most constitutionally repugnant provisions of the PATRIOT Act -- the portions of the Act that place recipients of so-called quot;national security lettersquot; (NSLs) under a permanent, unreviewed, lifetime gag order...

Carl Malamud Goes Green, Launches PACER Recycling Program

Posted on December 15, 2008
In addition to his many other noble and forward-thinking projects (here, here, here), information pioneer Carl Malamud has taken up the issue of public access to federal court documents. The federal judiciary makes most documents filed in federal court litigation available through its search platform known as Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)...

N.H. Supreme Court Rules that Porn is not Prostitution

Posted on December 12, 2008
The Supreme Court in the state where "Live Free or Die" adorns the license plates has answered the question "why can't producers of adult films be charged with prostitution?" The short answer -- because it would violate the First Amendment (or at least the New Hampshire Constitution's equivalent thereof)...

Federal Appeals Court Examines Two MySpace Student Speech Cases

Posted on December 12, 2008
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog and the Legal Intelligencer report that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has before it two appeals testing the limits of school authority to punish student speech on the Internet. The two cases have remarkably similar facts, but the trial courts that decided them came to completely opposite conclusions...

Maryland High Court Hears Argument on Internet Anonymity

Posted on December 11, 2008
On Monday, the Maryland Court of Appeals heard oral argument in a case requiring it to decide what showing an aggrieved plaintiff must make before a court will order a website operator to reveal the identity of an anonymous commenter. Paul Levy of Public Citizen argued the case for Independent Newspapers, Inc...

Internet and Politics 2008

Posted on December 10, 2008
Today and tomorrow, Sam and I will be participating in the Internet & Politics 2008 conference at Harvard which is focused on examining how digital technologies reshape the practice of campaigning and the movement of political information. It's a rather exceptional group of participants (both on the dais and off), including campaign strategists from the Obama and McCain campaigns, political activists and organizers, political analysts, members of the media, and academics...

Florida Student Sues Principal Over Suspension for Facebook Postings

Posted on December 09, 2008
Katherine Evans, a former student at Pembroke Pines Charter High School in Florida, filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the school's principal, alleging that he violated her First Amendment rights by suspending her for creating a Facebook group in which she criticized one of her teachers...

RDR Books Withdraws Appeal, Prepares To Publish Revised Lexicon

Posted on December 08, 2008
Last week, RDR Books withdrew its appeal of Judge Patterson's ruling that The Harry Potter Lexicon infringed J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros.'s copyrights in the Harry Potter books and movies. RDR Books also announced that it will soon publish a revised version of The Lexicon, which author Steve Vander Ark has revamped to ameliorate concerns expressed by J...

More Online Journalists Jailed Than Any Other Media Group

Posted on December 05, 2008
Online speakers are attracting more attention than ever from governments across the world, for good or for ill. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), more online journalists are currently imprisoned for their speech than journalists in print, broadcast, or other media...

Mystery Blogger Caught Up in First Amendment Flap

Posted on December 03, 2008
On Monday, the blog-hosting service Blogger took down a blog called "Jeffrey Denner's ineffective assistance of counsel" after Jeffrey Denner notified Blogger that a Massachusetts court had issued a restraining order prohibiting one Derrick Gillenwater from using the words "Jeffrey" or "Denner" or "Jeffrey Denner" in any blog postings...

Colorado Man Charged With Criminal Libel For Comments on Craigslist

Posted on December 02, 2008
The Loveland Connection is reporting that a Colorado man has been charged with two counts of criminal libel after allegedly posting comments about a former girlfriend and her lawyer on Craigslist.com's "Rants and Raves" section: The case in Loveland began when a woman approached the Loveland Police Department in December 2007 about multiple postings made about her between November and December 2007...

Opening the Government, Starting with the Transition

Posted on December 02, 2008
I?m a signer of a letter on a new site called ?An Open Transition,? where a group of folks led by Larry Lessig: celebrates the incoming administration?s decision to put a Creative Commons license on its Change.Gov transition website, thereby allowing anyone to share, remix and otherwise reuse and copy the material there; and asks that this philosophy be extended widely in the new administration, and around the government in general...

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