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A First For Fleet Street

Posted on June 18, 2013
Amol Rajan is the first non-Caucasian to head a major UK newspaper, the Independent, and he's only 30. More here from the Guardian.

SCOTUS Adopts New Regulation Intended To Ban Demonstrations On Plaza

Posted on June 18, 2013
Following a lower federal court's ruling that a federal statute banning the wearing and display of signs on the Supreme Court plaza was unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has promulgated a new regulation that prohibits individuals from "engag[ing] in a demonstration...

Paramount's Partial Win In "La Dolce Vita" Suit

Posted on June 17, 2013
After a drawn-out battle, Paramount Pictures has won a partial victory in a copyright suit against International Media over the ownership of the iconic film La Dolce Vita. Paramount had asserted ownership and copyright infringement against the other company and...

Canadian Regulators To Take Another Look At Rules

Posted on June 13, 2013
From the Hollywood Reporter: Head of Canadian regulatory agency CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commissions) Jean-Pierre Blais says he and his fellow commissioners are re-thinking the regulatory regime, particularly with regard to Netflix Canada...

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Representations of Abortion in Argentine Media

Posted on June 12, 2013
Yanel Mogaburo, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, has published Representaciones Sobre El Aborto En La Prensa Argentina: An�lisis Cr�tico Del Discurso De Los Medios Masivos De Comunicaci�n (Abortion Representations in the Argentine Press: Critical Analysis of the Media Discourse) in Comunicaci�n...

EU Media Law and the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity

Posted on June 12, 2013
Mira Burri, University of Bern Law School & The World Trade Institute has published Business as Usual? The Implementation of the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity and EU Media Law and Policies in volume 3 of the European Law Review....

IP Infringement and Differing Audiences

Posted on June 10, 2013
Jeanne C. Fromer, New York University School of Law, and Mark A. Lemley, Stanford Law School, are publishing The Audience in Intellectual Property Infringement in volume 112 of the Michigan Law Review (2014). Here is the abstract. Every IP right...

Two Men First Identified as "Possible Suspects" In Boston Marathon Bombing Suing New York Post For Defamation

Posted on June 10, 2013
Two young men whose photographs were published in the New York Post and identified as "possible suspects" being sought by police in the Boston Marathon bombing are now suing the paper for defamation and negligent infliction of emotional distress. Salaheddin...

Human Rights Watch Asks Sri Lankan Government For Answers On Whereabouts Of Government Critic

Posted on June 10, 2013
Human Rights Watch has called on the Sri Lankan government to explain the disappearance of cartoonist and government critic Prageeth Ekneligoda, who has not been seen since 2010. A member of the Sri Lankan Parliament says Mr. Ekneligoda is living...

Plagiarize, Plagiarize, Plagiarize!

Posted on June 10, 2013
Joe Nocera discusses the money that former plagiarists can derive from reviving their failed careers. He argues that Mr. Glass repented, and has been forgiven, and rightly so. Jonah Lehrer, though, he says, is a different case. Readers differ. More...

Celebs and Products

Posted on June 10, 2013
From the New York Times: an article discussing celebrity tweets and products. Is this the new face of product placement?

The Free Speech Clause and Emerging Technologies

Posted on June 06, 2013
Jorge R. Roig, Charleston School of Law, is publishing Emerging Technologies and Dwindling Speech in volume 16 of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2013). Here is the abstract. Inspired in part by the recent holding in Bland...

Bring On the Shield

Posted on June 06, 2013
NYT Executive Editor Bill Keller on the necessity for a federal shield law.

An Analysis of Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association

Posted on June 05, 2013
Daniel Butler is publishing Avoiding the First Amendment's Crosshairs: An Analysis and Critique of the Legal Strategies Used in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association in the University of Miami Law Review. Here is the abstract. An analysis and critique of...

Comparing U.S. and European Approaches To Privacy Law

Posted on June 05, 2013
Richard J. Peltz-Steele, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, has published The New American Privacy in volume 44 of the Georgetown Journal of International Law (2013). Here is the abstract. Conventional wisdom paints U.S. and European approaches to privacy at irreconcilable odds...

The First Amendment and Subway Speech

Posted on June 05, 2013
Engy Abdelkader, University of Pennsylvania, is publishing 'Savagery' in the Subways: Anti-Muslim Ads, the First Amendment, and the Efficacy of Counterspeech in the Asian American Law Journal (2013). Here is the abstract. From San Francisco to Washington, D...

Ah, Film Tax Credits!

Posted on June 04, 2013
From the Hollywood Reporter: applications for California state film tax credits are up eighteen percent over last year. Meanwhile, the film tax credit so popular in Louisiana is under some scrutiny after a 2013 Louisiana Legislative Auditor's report found that...

The Defense of Free Speech Around the World

Posted on June 04, 2013
Robert A. Kahn, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), has published 'First Amendment' Pioneers in a European Land of Hate Speech Bans: Flemming Rose, Geert Wilders and Libert� Pour L?Histoire as U. of St. Thomas (Minnesota) Legal Studies...

Political Advertising, the European Court of Human Rights, and Free Speech

Posted on June 03, 2013
Jacob H. Rowbottom, University of Oxford Faculty of Law, has published Animal Defenders International: Speech, Spending and a Change of Direction in Strasbourg, in the Journal of Media Law (2013). Here is the abstract. This paper looks at the decision...

The First Amendment and Hot News Today

Posted on June 03, 2013
Joseph A. Tomain, Florida Coastal School of Law, has published First Amendment, Fourth Estate & Hot News: Misappropriation is Not a Solution to the Journalism Crisis in the 2012 volume of the Michigan State Law Review. Here is the abstract....

Russian Court Confirms Pussy Riot Sentences

Posted on May 29, 2013
Two members of the group Pussy Riot have lost an appeal of their prison sentences to the Moscow City Court. Their lawyer says they will appeal to the Russian Supreme Court. Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Yekaterina Samutsevich protested the...

DC Circuit Finds In Favor of Comcast In Tennis Channel Dispute With FCC

Posted on May 29, 2013
A federal appellate court has ruled in favor of Comcast in a dispute between the company and the FCC over whether Comcast could bundle The Tennis Channel separately from other channels such as the Golf Channel, thus limiting The Tennis...

Paul Caron Now Sole Owner Of LawProfessorBlogs

Posted on May 29, 2013
From a press release dated May 24, 2013: Law Professor Blogs LLC announces today that co-founder Paul L. Caron has purchased the 50% interest of co-founder Joseph A. Hodnicki and now owns 100% of the company. Paul Caron: I will...

The First Sale Doctrine in the Digital Context

Posted on May 28, 2013
Clark D. Asay, Penn State University School of Law, has published Kirtsaeng and the First-Sale Doctrine's Digital Problem at 66 Stanford Law Review Online 17 (2013). Many have lauded the United States Supreme Court's recent decision in Kirtsaeng v. John...

Illegal Downloading and Legislative Responses

Posted on May 28, 2013
Anne_Catherine Lorrain, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, University Paris-Sud 11, has published Delineating and Promoting an Online 'Legal Offer': A Proper Task for Copyright Legislation? in volume 3(2) of the Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology...

Arrested Development: Pirated Episodes

Posted on May 28, 2013
The Hollywood Reporter tells us that the new Arrested Development episodes released by Netflix on Sunday are a huge hit, especially with people who don't actually subscribe to Netflix. They have apparently downloaded the episodes illegally. A lot. More here.

DC Circuit Rules That CIA May Refuse To Release Bin Laden Photos

Posted on May 23, 2013
The US Appeals Court for the DC Circuit has ruled per curiam that the CIA may refuse to release post mortem photographs of Osama bin Laden which the agency classified as top secret. A group called Judicial Watch filed a...

Joe Francis Apologizes For Rant Against Jury Members

Posted on May 23, 2013
Joe Francis, famous for his "Girls Gone Wild" empire, has apologized for an "appalling" Hollywood Reporter interview in which he repeatedly insulted members of the jury which convicted him of false imprisonment and assault, saying they should be "shot...

EU Parliament, Member States Want "Culture Exception" in Upcoming EU/US Trade Talks

Posted on May 23, 2013
The EU Parliament has indicated it wants the area of culture exempted from upcoming trade talks with the United States. France, an EU member states, agrees, and is vocal about backing a cultural exception for French films, for example. More...

Word Frequency and Its Meaning

Posted on May 21, 2013
David Brooks discusses whether the frequency of words as revealed in the printed book means anything at all (here, in the New York Times). Read one of the articles he discusses in his NYT piece here. Try searching the Google...