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More On a Possible Change in Britain's Libel Laws

Posted on December 11, 2009
A piece from the New York Times on the British government's push to change current libel laws and the country's image as a haven for defamation plaintiffs.

"Will the Last Journalist To Exit the Industry Please Turn Off the Lights on Her Way Out?"

Posted on December 10, 2009
Nielsen is closing two well known publications, Kirkus Reviews and Editor & Publisher. Here's commentary from the Atlantic.

Baron Cohen, Letterman Sued

Posted on December 10, 2009
Palestinian businessman Ayman Abu Aita has sued actor Sacha Baron Cohen and talk show host David Letterman over clips in the movie "Bruno" and subsequent discussion of the film on Mr. Letterman's show, which Mr. Abu Aita says characterize him...

Hollywood Reporter Has New Owner

Posted on December 10, 2009
The Nielsen Company has sold the Hollywood Reporter to e5 Global Media LLC. Read more here.

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Jon Gosselin, TLC Headed To Court

Posted on December 10, 2009
TLC and Jon Gosselin were supposed to face off in court today over Mr. Gosselin's appearances on shows other than the now cancelled Jon & Kate Plus 8. Mr. Gosselin says the network violated child labor laws during the filming...

Network Management Regulations and the Size of Providers

Posted on December 09, 2009
George S. Ford, Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies, Michael Stern, Harvard University Law School, and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies, have published "Expanding the Digital Divide: Network...

An Analysis of Judge Easterbrook's Thinking on Copyright

Posted on December 09, 2009
Randal C. Picker, University of Chicago Law School, has published "Easterbrook on Copyright," in volume 77 University of Chicago Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract. In this essay prepared in celebration of Judge Frank Easterbrook?s 25th year on the...

Tort Liability For Website Operators For Cyberharassment

Posted on December 09, 2009
Nancy S. Kim, California Western School of Law, has published "Imposing Tort Liability on Websites for Cyberharassment," at 118 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 115 (2008). Here is the abstract. Several female law students were the subject of derogatory comments...

IP Law and the Washington Redskins Case

Posted on December 08, 2009
FindLaw's Sonia K. Katyal on trademarks that raise the issue of racial and other offensive representations.

The Lure of the Foreign (Edition)

Posted on December 08, 2009
The New York Times covers the impatience of U.S. readers to get hold of British (first) editions of popular mysteries when the U.S. edition is not yet available. Booksellers offer the convenience of picking the book up locally, but one...

The Rights of Humanities Scholars

Posted on December 08, 2009
Carol Loeb Schloss writes about her years-long battle with the Joyce estate, and the assistance she received from Lawrence Lessig and the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society's Fair Use Project, and others. While she eventually won her...

ITV: Sorry About Rat-Killing Episode

Posted on December 07, 2009
ITV has apologized for the episode on "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here," during which two participants killed and ate a rat. The network said it looked into health and safety concerns, but not into whether killing the...

Have Reality TV Creators Finally Gone Too Far?

Posted on December 07, 2009
In creating "Jersey Shore" and "Find My Family" reality tv types seem to have crossed some lines. And we thought there weren't any more lines to be crossed. MTV, which is premiering "Jersey Shore," has already run into trouble with...

The GE/Comcast Deal

Posted on December 07, 2009
From the New York Times, on the GE/Comcast deal over NBC/Universal: With technology changing Americans? media experience at breakneck speed, it might seem quaint to worry about the merger of an old-style cable company with a beleaguered broadcast TV company...

Union Leader Gets Apology, Damages From News of the World

Posted on December 07, 2009
The News of the World will pay damages and has apologized to Unite election official Derek Simpson over a false story it published alleging that he had used union money and taken advantage of the union's rules in order to...

Queen Elizabeth Fires "Shot Across the Bow" At Paparazzi

Posted on December 06, 2009
Queen Elizabeth II has informed the paparazzi and media that they are not to publish photos of the royals and other members of the family have noted that they are entitled to their privacy when engaged in normal family activities....

Rat-Eating Celebs Face Charges

Posted on December 06, 2009
The winners of this season's ITV version of "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here" face animal cruelty charges in New South Wales after footage shows them killing and eating a rat. Police issued summons under the Prevention of...

Rescuing the Print Media

Posted on December 05, 2009
Mara J. Gassmann, Georgetown University Law Center, has published "Who's Watching (Out for) the Watchers?: The First Amendment and Non-Profit Newspapers." Here is the abstract. U.S. Senator Ben Cardin has introduced The Newspaper Revitalization Act, which if passed would amend...

Canadian Court Hears Case Against Iranian Government Over Death of Journalist

Posted on December 04, 2009
A Quebec court hears arguments in the death of an Iranian-Canadian journalist, Zahra Kazemi, who died of injuries suffered while she was in police custody six years ago. According to press reports, Kazemi was 54 when she died in Iranian...

GE, Comcast and NBC

Posted on December 04, 2009
Two New York Times articles on the GE/Comcast NBC deal and its implications, here and here.

Collecting a Libel Tourism Judgment

Posted on December 04, 2009
Doug Rendleman, Washington and Lee University School lof Law, has published "Collecting a Libel Tourist?s Defamation Judgment?" forthcoming in the Washington and Lee Law Review. Here is the abstract. A libel plaintiff sued an American defendant in a foreign nation...

What Does the Camera Capture?

Posted on December 03, 2009
French legislator Valerie Boyer wants digitally altered photos to be labelled as such. For one thing, she thinks such labelling would assist in a fight against anorexia. Not everyone agrees. Read more here in a New York Times article.

Britain's Justice Minister Says Libel Laws Will Be Reformed; They Are Having Chilling Effect On Free Speech

Posted on December 03, 2009
Britain's Justice secretary, Jack Straw, has announced a plan to attack "libel tourism," which he says is "chilling" democracy in the country, according to this Guardian article. Mr. Straw says that current status of libel law in Great Britain "threatens...

Comparing (Internet) Network Discrimination in Canada and the US

Posted on December 02, 2009
Mark Perry and Thomas Margoni, both of the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, have published "Interpreting Network Discrimination in the CRTC and FCC." Here is the abstract. The issue of what discriminatory use of a network means has...

Freedom of Expression in Uganda

Posted on December 02, 2009
Musede Denis Jude has published "Limitations to the Enjoyment of Freedom of Expression in Uganda." Here is the abstract. Freedom of expression in Uganda has been subject to a number of restrictions since colonial period to date. However in 1986...

FTC Hosts Workshop On the Internet and Journalism

Posted on December 01, 2009
The Federal Trade Commission is hosting a workshop on the future of journalism. From the FTC website, here's more: The Federal Trade Commission will hold two days of workshops on December 1 and 2, 2009, to explore how the Internet...

GE, Comcast Nearing Deal Over NBC/Universal

Posted on December 01, 2009
From the New York Times: GE is nearing a deal to sell NBC to Comcast. First hurdle--helping Vivendi divest itself of its stake in the media giant.

Did Bernard Malamud Plagiarize?

Posted on December 01, 2009
Jay Beilis, Jeremy Simcha Garber, and Mark S. Stein (Harvard Law School, Petrie-Flom Center) have published "Pulitzer Plagiarism: The Malamud-Beilis Connection," forthcoming in the Cardozo Law Review. Here is the abstract. In writing The Fixer, Bernard Malamud plagiarized from Mendel...

Georgia Author Loses Defamation By Fiction Case

Posted on December 01, 2009
Novelist Haywood Smith lost a defamation by fiction case in a Georgia court last week. The plaintiff, Vickie Stewart, claimed that one of the characters in the book The Red Hat Society too closely resembled her, and the jury agreed,...

Sixth Circuit Upholds Denial of Preliminary Injunction In Adult Bookstore Case

Posted on November 30, 2009
The Sixth Circuit has upheld the denial of a preliminary injunction to a Memphis, Tennessee bookstore that sells "adult-themed" material. Plaintiff's first argument is that the definition of "adult bookstore" violates the Equal Protection Clause. The Tennessee Act regulates "adult-oriented...

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