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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 12:48:00

The New VOD Deal: What Movie Theater Owners Think

Posted on April 01, 2011
The Hollywood Reporter discusses movie theater owners' reaction to the studios' proposed VOD (video on demand) deal with DirecTV here.

Social Media Sites, Present Sense Impressions, and the Hearsay Exception

Posted on April 01, 2011
Jeffrey Belling, Southern Methodist University School of Law, is publishing Facebook, Twitter, and the Uncertain Future of Present Sense Impressions, in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Here is the abstract. The intricate legal framework governing the admission of out-of-court...

Time Warner Responds To Content Provider Complaints, Pulls Channels From iPad App

Posted on April 01, 2011
According to the New York Times, Time Warner Cable has yanked some of its channels from an iPad application that allows consumers to turn their iPads into tvs after receiving complaints from Viacom, Discovery Communications and the News Corporation. Those...

California Agency Fines Two Adult Film Entertainment Companies For Failure To Follow Safety Rules

Posted on March 31, 2011
The AP reports that the California Department of Safety and Health has fined both Hustler Video and Forsaken Pictures for failing to require the use of condoms or other "protective equipment" during the filming of adult entertainment produced by their...

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District Court Judge Allows Interior Designer's Right of Publicity Twitter/Facebook Lawsuit Against Former Employer To Go Forward

Posted on March 30, 2011
A U.S. federal district court is allowing part of a plaintiff's case based on the Illinois Right of Publicity Act to go forward and the Lanham Act, based on her allegations that the defendants used her name and image in...

Wisconsin Won't Prosecute Former DA For Text Messages

Posted on March 30, 2011
The Wisconsin Department of Justice says it will not pursue charges against Ken Kratz, a former district attorney who sent improper text messages to a woman who had suffered domestic abuse, and was accused of other improprieties by other women....

Groups Seek Access To Faculty Emails

Posted on March 30, 2011
The Chronicle of Higher Education and other media are tracking attempts by Wisconsin Republicans and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy to obtain the emails of faculty at universities in Wisconsin and Michigan who oppose the elimination of collective bargaining...

College Newspaper Photograph Has Some Readers Upset

Posted on March 30, 2011
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that a University of North Florida story about the spread of throat cancer has caused consternation among some readers. To be accurate, the content of the story isn't the issue. What has some readers...

Offshore Servers and International Law

Posted on March 30, 2011
Steven R. Swanson, Hamline University School of Law, has published Google Sets Sail: Ocean-Based Server Farms and International Law at 43 Connecticut Law Review 709 (2011). Here is the abstract. In recent years, the oceans have become a venue for...

Public Schools and Off Campus Cyberbullying

Posted on March 29, 2011
Douglas Abrams, University of MIssouri School of Law, is publishing Recognizing the Public Schools? Authority to Discipline Students? Off-Campus Cyberbullying of Classmates in the New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement. Here is the abstract...

Regulation of Cloud Computing

Posted on March 29, 2011
W. Kuan Hon, Christopher Millard, and Ian Walden, all Queen Mary University of London School of Law, have published The Problem of 'Personal Data' in Cloud Computing - What Information is Regulated? The Cloud of Unknowing, Part 1, as Queen...

NYT Editorial: Hey, FCC: Think Carefully About That ATT/T-Mobile Merger

Posted on March 29, 2011
The New York Times urges regulators to be cautious about okaying that ATT/T-Mobile merger. It's skeptical about company claims that competition is brisk enough to overcome fears of monopoly. Says the Times in part, [s]maller rivals hardly represent significant competition...

"The Kennedys" Is Ready For Prime Time

Posted on March 29, 2011
"The Kennedys" miniseries, having found a home, debuts on the ReelzChannel debuts Sunday. How "reelz" is it? More from the New York Times.

The Data Commons

Posted on March 29, 2011
Jane Yakowitz, Brooklyn Law School, has published Tragedy of the Data Commons. Here is the abstract. Accurate data is vital to enlightened research and policymaking, particularly publicly available data that are redacted to protect the identity of individuals...

V. S. Ramachandran's "The Tell-Tale Brain" and Copyright Law

Posted on March 29, 2011
Stephen M. McJohn, Suffolk University Law School, has published Some Speculation About Mirror Neurons and Copyright as Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 11-15. Here is the abstract. The internet, a world-wide copy machine, caused some rethinking of copyright...

Ukraine in Media Debates in the UK, Germany and France

Posted on March 29, 2011
Petr Kratochvil, Petra Cibulkova, and Michal Benik have published The EU as a Framing Actor: Reflections on Media Debates About EU Foreign Policy in 49 JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 391 (2011). Here is the abstract. This article explores...

British Producer's Remarks Over "Midsomer Murders" Mean He Won't Be Back

Posted on March 28, 2011
Brian True-May, the show runner under fire for his comments that the incredibly popular ITV production Midsomer Murders is completely white because, well, it is set in English villages, will not be back. According to the Daily Express, ITV brass...

BBC Faces IP Lawsuit Over "Dr. Who" Villain

Posted on March 28, 2011
Fifty-one-year old Steven Clark is suing the BBC over the creature Davros, the Dalek villain on "Doctor Who," alleging that he and not the late Terry Nation created Davros. He also says that he invented the name "Kaled," a new...

Judge Sets Court Date To Hear Motion In Charlie Sheen's Lawsuit

Posted on March 28, 2011
Judge Allan Goodman has set a date of April 19 to hear Charlie Sheen's attorney Marty Singer argue a motion to move forward with a trial on Mr. Sheen lawsuit against Chuck Lorre and Warner Brothers. More here from The...

City of London To Support Film London; UKFC Closing Down

Posted on March 25, 2011
Film London will receive $2.1 million in funding in 2011/2012 for its projects from the city of London even though a number of arts projects have lost funding and the British economy is still suffering. The city's mayor Boris Johnson...

Amanda Knox Asks Civil Court To Prohibit Downloads of Lifetime Film About Her Case

Posted on March 25, 2011
Amanda Knox, who is appealing her conviction for murder in the death of Meredith Kercher, is asking an Italian court to prohibit downloads of the Lifetime film Amanda Knox: Murder On Trial in Italy, which was broadcast last month in...

Carla Bruni Sues Newspaper Over Audio Clip

Posted on March 24, 2011
French First Lady Carla Bruni is suing the French newspaper Midi Libre for posting an audio clip of her Italian cover of the song Douce France (Sweet France), an air written by and made famous by the singer Charles Trenet...

Words Fly Between London Police, Director of Public Prosecutions Over News of the World Phone Hacking Inquiry

Posted on March 24, 2011
An update from the Guardian on the News of the World phone hacking inquiry. The Metropolitan Police and the Director of Public Prosecutions are pointing fingers at each other over who bears responsibility for the mess over the failure to...

Judge Refuses TRO To Sheen Team

Posted on March 23, 2011
An L.A. Superior Court Judge has refused Charlie Sheen's legal team a requested TRO, which would have allowed his dispute with CBS, Warner Brothers, and Chuck Lorre to proceed to trial. Lawyers for Mr. Sheen apparently intend to appeal the...

Going Public

Posted on March 23, 2011
From The Scientist, an opinion piece suggesting that sometimes self-help (via the media) is the only way to obtain a remedy, because internal methods of investigating complaints just don't seem to work.

Supreme Court To Hear Challenge To Copyright Term Extension Act With Regard To Foreign Works (Golan v. Holder)

Posted on March 23, 2011
The New York Times' Adam Liptak discusses the importance of a new case to be heard by the Supreme Court, Golan v. Holder, here. Here is a link to the 10th Circuit decision. Said the 10th Circuit, Plaintiffs filed this...

An Open Source Model To License Data and Information

Posted on March 23, 2011
Shubha Ghosh, University of Wisconsin Law School, has published Transparent and Commercialized?: Managing the Public-Private Model for Data Production and Use as University of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1155. Here is the abstract. This Article examines the relationship...

Apple Sues Amazon Over "Appstore" Usage

Posted on March 23, 2011
From CNN: Apple is suing Amazon.com over the latter's use of the term "Appstore" to describe its Android Marketplace. Apple filed for trademark protection for when it rolled out the iPhone 3G. More coverage of the suit here from the...

Judge Nixes Google Books Settlement

Posted on March 23, 2011
Coverage of the news that Judge Denny Chin has rejected the proposed settlement between Google and the Authors Guild and other plaintiffs. From the Chronicle of Higher Education; from the American Library Association; from the ABA Journal's Law News Now...

The Value of Lies

Posted on March 23, 2011
R. George Wright, Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, is publishing Lying and Freedom of Speech in the Utah Law Review. Here is the abstract. This Article, prompted by recent criminal cases involving alleged false claims to have been awarded...

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