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The Internet Under the First Amendment

Posted on September 17, 2009
Anthony E. Varona, American University College of Law, has published "Toward a Broadband Public Interest Standard," in volume 61 of the American Law Review (2009). Here is the abstract. Although they emerged seven decades apart, commercial broadcasting and the Internet...

Ofcom Allows BT To Offer Bundled Services

Posted on September 16, 2009
A decision by Ofcom could lower consumer prices for telephone, broadband and other media services. Prior to the ruling, BT (formerly British Telecom) could not bundle services as its competitors were allowed to do, but according to Ofcom, BT's share....

Michael Palin Still Upset Over BBC Trust Criticism Of Show

Posted on September 16, 2009
Pythonite Michael Palin is still angry over last year's BBC Trust's decision that his show "New Europe" "oversimplified" the issues it presented to its viewers. Said Mr. Palin to a Royal Television Society luncheon audience, "there was not the creative...

Satriani, Coldplay Settle Dispute Over "If I Could Fly"

Posted on September 16, 2009
It seems that the band Coldplay and Joe Satriani have settled their dispute over allegations that the band plagiarized his song "If I Could Fly." Mr. Satriani claimed that Coldplay's work "Viva La Vida" sounded a great deal like "If...

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Jurors, Be Warned--No Blogging, Tweeting, Or Wikipedia Research Allowed

Posted on September 15, 2009
FindLaw's Eric Sinrod on the newest iteration of jury instruction: no Internet research.

Twitter's New Terms of Service

Posted on September 15, 2009
Twitter has announced new terms of service that leave open the question: what does "tweet ownerhip" mean? William Carleton suggests some answers here and here.

Unmasking Anonymous Bloggers In Defamation Cases

Posted on September 15, 2009
FindLaw's Julie Hilden analyzes a New York court's ruling on the Cohen "Skanks In New York" case, and discusses why Google should have defended its position more vigorously. Read her column here.

Another "Anonymous Blog" Decision

Posted on September 15, 2009
The Sacramento Bee reports that a California trial judge has ruled that a former University of California, Davis, police officer may take steps to discover who has posted anonymous comments on a Google blog by hiring an "independent third party"...

International Criminal Tribunal Fines Journalist For Revealing Information

Posted on September 14, 2009
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has fined journalist Florence Hartmann $10,000 for revealing secret information about its proceedings in an article and book. Ms. Hartmann, who served as a spokesperson for the court in the early 2000s,...

Argentina Considering Decriminalization of Defamation

Posted on September 14, 2009
Argentina is considering a bill to decriminalize libel and slander. The President announced the move while welcoming the arrival of a delegation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, headed by Kerry Kennedy.

Another View of the Google Books Settlement

Posted on September 14, 2009
Einer Elhauge, Harvard Law School, has published "Why the Google Books Settlement is Procompetitive," as Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 646. Here is the abstract. Although the Google Books Settlement has been criticized as anticompetitive, I conclude that...

Balancing Publicity Rights and Free Speech

Posted on September 14, 2009
Diane Leenheer Zimmerman, New York University School of Law, has published "Money as a Thumb on the Constitutional Scale: Weighing Speech against Publicity Rights." It is forthcoming in the Boston College Law Review. Here is the abstract. Although they have...

Two Film Producers Guilty in FCPA Trial

Posted on September 14, 2009
According to the Blog of Legal Times, Gerald and Patricia Green have been found guilty under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of "conspiring to bribe a former Thai government official to obtain contracts that provided for, among other things, control...

Louisiana Supreme Court: CNN Does Not Have Standing To Intervene In New Orleans Hospital Case

Posted on September 11, 2009
The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that a cable news station (CNN) did not have standing to intervene in a case in which a New Orleans hospital requested the return of property held by the District Attorney's Office. CNN asserted...

New Industry Coalition Plans To Develop Tools To Measure Ratings

Posted on September 11, 2009
Time Warner, Disney Media Networks, Viacom, Procter & Gamble, AT&T, CBS/Paramount, Discovery, NBC Universal, and several other media giants have announced the formation of the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM), which will attempt to develop new methods of gathering...

Picking Sides In the Google Settlement

Posted on September 11, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Education has this survey of who's on which side in the fight over the Google book settlement. Meanwhile, the Copyright Office has come out against the deal. Said MaryBeth Peters, Registrar of Copyrights, in part: In...

When the Media Is the Story, Sometimes It Chooses To Delay Telling the Story

Posted on September 10, 2009
From NPR's Corey Flintoff, a story about when news organizations go dark on stories concerning kidnapped journalists. Safety is the concern.

Online Privacy

Posted on September 10, 2009
Jacqueline D. Lipton, Case Western Reserve School of Law, has published "Mapping Online Privacy," in volume 104 of Northwestern University Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract. Privacy scholars have recently outlined difficulties in applying existing concepts of personal privacy...

Lawyers and the Shire

Posted on September 09, 2009
The search for the Ring can continue, after producers for New Line Cinema settled a dispute with J. J. R. Tolkien's heirs over royalties for the Lord of the Rings films. Mr. Jackson's new project, The Hobbit, is due out...

Blogging From the Front

Posted on September 09, 2009
Troops are blogging, the Pentagon is watching, and the New York Times is reporting, here.

Hillary: The Movie Re-Run

Posted on September 09, 2009
The Supreme Court is rehearing the "Hillary: The Movie" case today. It's newly appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor's first chance to hear oral argument, being streamed by CSPAN here.

Student Press Law Center Files Amicus Brief in Doninger Case

Posted on September 09, 2009
From Frank LoMonte, Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center The Student Press Law Center ("SPLC&"), the nation's only nonprofit legal-assistance organization serving student journalists, filed a friend-of-the-court brief today in support of a Connecticut high-school student punished by...

AIDS Ad Causes Uproar

Posted on September 08, 2009
An AIDS prevention ad that likens AIDS to dictators of history is coming under fire. The group that created the ad. Das Comitee, noted that its purpose is to heighten awareness of the dangers of the disease, but critics and...

EU Thinks Copyright Revamp As Google Moves Toward Putting Digitizing Plan Into Place

Posted on September 08, 2009
The EU is mulling its copyright law as Google moves toward making final its book settlement. Said the affected EU Commissioners, "We need to take a hard look at the copyright system we have today in Europe. Is the present...

British Medical Association: Ban Alcohol Ads

Posted on September 08, 2009
The British Medical Association says all alcohol advertising should be banned. Read more here. Here's a report from the BMA on the damage such marketing does to young adults.

A New Legal Educator Blog Census

Posted on September 08, 2009
Colin Miller has posted a new Legal Educator Blog Census here (A-L), here (M-Z), here (alphabetical list), and here (statistics).

I Want My Mad Men!

Posted on September 07, 2009
Many Brits anxious for U.S. tv (yes) are annoyed at having to wait months for new seasons of such favorites as Mad Men and True Blood, when others such as Curb Your Enthusiasm and Desperate Housewives air almost at the...

Who Killed Anna Politkovskaya

Posted on September 06, 2009
The Russian Supreme Court has told prosecutors to get to work trying to find out who actually killed Anna Politkovskaya instead of retrying small fish. The New York Times opines on what such a decision may signal for the Russian...

Competition in Cable

Posted on September 06, 2009
From the New York Times today, an editorial on what the thirty percent cap means, and why cable competition is important.

Earth Liberation Front Says It Toppled Radio Towers In Washington

Posted on September 06, 2009
The Earth Liberation Front is claiming that it caused two KRKO-owned radio towers to fall in Snohomish County, Washington, saying that AM radio waves cause "adverse health effects" to both humans and animals. Authorities are investigating. Here's more on the...

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