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Judge Allows Dan Rather To Refile Suit Against CBS

Posted on July 22, 2009
Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS is back on. The longtime CBS anchor originally sued for breach of contract over his removal two years ago. Judge Ira Gammerman dismissed the suit citing technicalities, but is now allowing Mr. Rather to go...

Parody in Australian IP Law

Posted on July 22, 2009
Nic Suzor, QUT School of Law, has published "Where the Bloody Hell Does Parody Fit in Australian Copyright Law?" at 13 Media & Arts Law Review 218 (2008). Here is the abstract. This article examines the role of the recently...

Fulbright Program Now Taking Applications

Posted on July 21, 2009
From March to August 1, 2009, U.S.faculty and professionals are invited to apply for *Fulbright scholar grants at www.cies.org. For monthly updates, write us at outreach@cies.iie.org for a complimentary subscription to The Fulbright Scholar News, an electronic newsletter...

Cut!

Posted on July 21, 2009
Some wannabe Steven Spielbergs in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina are getting a crash course in film and the law. Specifically, they are learning the importance of letting local law enforcement know that they are making a film within the city...

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What's Doing on "Big Brother"?

Posted on July 21, 2009
NPR's Monkey See blog brings us an account of a behind the scenes rant delivered by a participant on CBS' reality show Big Brother, Braden Bacha. CBS excised Mr. Bacha's comments from the broadcast version of the show, and Mr....

Judge Rules For Google In English Defamation Suit

Posted on July 21, 2009
In what court watchers have called a significant win for libel defendants, a British judge has found for Google in a defamation case. Metropolitan International Schools had sued Google over search engine results which turned up comments that Metropolitan did...

Public Employment Free Speech Rights

Posted on July 21, 2009
Joseph Oluwole has published "On the Road to Garcetti: 'Unpick'ering Pickering and Its Progeny," in volume 36 of the Capital University Law Review (2008). Here is the abstract. This article examines the foundational cases dealing with public employment free-speech rights...

The Criminal Aspects of Uploading and Non-Criminal Aspects of Downloading Documents

Posted on July 21, 2009
Alicia Gil Gil and Carlos Martin Fernandez have published "About the Criminality of the Conduct of Uploading a Copyrighted Work with Commercial Intent and the Not Criminal Character of its Downloading Despite its Illegality," in volume 2 of InDret (2009)...

The Cornversation Continues

Posted on July 20, 2009
Dotan Oliar and Christopher Jon Sprigman, University of Virginia School of Law, have published "From Corn to Norms: How IP Entitlements Affect What Stand-Up Comedians Create," in volume 95 of Virginia Law Review In Brief (no. 57)(2009). Here is the...

Regulating Search Engines

Posted on July 20, 2009
Viva Moffat, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, has published "Regulating Search," in volume 22 of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology (2009). Here is the abstract. With the digital revolution and the internet age have come not...

The Cost of Those Scholarly Journals

Posted on July 20, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Education's Jennifer Howard reports on the costs of publishing humanities and social sciences journals. They cost more than three times as much to publish as do science journals, according to a new study.

Those Washington Post Dinners--Again

Posted on July 20, 2009
The Guardian's Emily Bell discusses the Washington Post's attempt to launch intimate little dinners.

Desmond Defamation Case Continues

Posted on July 20, 2009
More on the Richard Desmond defamation case against biographer Tom Bower.

The Guardian on Walter Cronkite

Posted on July 20, 2009
The life and influence of Walter Cronkite, from the Guardian.

Egyptian Poet's Conviction For Defamation of President Overturned

Posted on July 20, 2009
The Arabic Network For Human Rights Information reports that the conviction of Mounir Saeed Hanna for defaming President Housni Mubarak has been reversed. ANHRI attorneys appealed the conviction of the poet, who was convicted of defaming the President, when members...

And That's The Way It Was

Posted on July 18, 2009
Tributes to the late Walter Cronkite and evaluations of the meaning of his work are pouring in. Here's an essay from the AP's Ted Anthony, a bio from MSNBC.com, commentary from Michael Ventre, an article from the New York Times,...

Let's Go To the Videotape

Posted on July 17, 2009
Da dum DA DUM! Da dum DA DUM DUM! What was the name of that Perry Mason episode that neither Senator Franken nor Judge Sotomayor could remember? According to the blogosphere, and Perry Mason addicts, it's possibly The Case of...

Cameras In the (UK) Courtroom

Posted on July 17, 2009
The newly constituted UK Supreme Court will allow cameras in courtroom, on request of the media, according to this report from the BBC.

Ad For Morning After Pill Does Not Violate Code

Posted on July 16, 2009
Despite its cartoon style, an ad for Levonelle One Step, a "morning after" pill does not make light of contraception, says the Advertising Standards Authority, and may continue to air during the later evening hours. The ASA had received more...

BBC Radio Host Critiques New On-Air Rules

Posted on July 16, 2009
A BBC 1 radio host has criticized the new rules that the BBC has put in place to try to avoid situations like the one caused by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross several months ago. Chris Moyles says "Everything now...

Spanish High Court Drops Charges Against U.S. Soldiers In Death of Journalist, Tells Lower Court Judge To Close Case

Posted on July 15, 2009
Three American soldiers facing charges in the death of a Spanish journalist have had the charges dismissed by the Audiencia National (the Spanish National Court). The Court found that the judge who reinstated the charges did not present any new...

National Portrait Gallery Threatens Legal Action Over Downloaded Images Uploaded To Wikipedia

Posted on July 15, 2009
Derrick Coetzee, who downloaded "thousands" of images of from the National Portrait Gallery's website and uploaded them to Wikipedia, is facing legal action for copyright infringement. The issue is not whether the paintings themselves are copyrighted, but whether the photographs...

Guardian Employees Testify Before Parliament About Phone Hacking

Posted on July 15, 2009
The Guardian has told Members of Parliament that the News of the World's phone hacking extended even farther than the paper previously reported. The Guardian's journalists, summoned before the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee told the committee...

ASA Bans Israeli Tourism Poster

Posted on July 15, 2009
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an Israeli Tourism poster that misleadingly implies that the West Bank, Golan Heights and Gaza Strip are still part of Israel. The ASA received more than 400 complaints from the public about the poster.....

Russian Government Closes Down History Website

Posted on July 14, 2009
British historians and writers are objecting to a Russian decision to shut down a major website, www. hrono.info, officially because it provided some excerpts from Adolf Hitler's autobiography, Mein Kampf. But protestors are saying the real reason is political...

Stephen Fry Downloads "House" Finale Illegally

Posted on July 14, 2009
Actor Stephen Fry said he illegally downloaded a copy of an episode of his former co-star Hugh Laurie's show House because he was away from home at the time and couldn't download the episode legally. He said he used the...

Harvard's Berkman Center To Assist FCC In Studying Broadband Deployment

Posted on July 14, 2009
From the FCC The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University will conduct an independent expert review of existing literature and studies about broadband deployment and usage throughout the world. This project will help inform the FCC?s efforts...

Controversial Photo Temporarily Removed From Exhibit, Then Returned

Posted on July 14, 2009
Controversy over a juried Baton Rouge, Louisiana, art show. Forum 35, which sponsors an annual art show, Art Melt, removed a photograph chosen for the exhibit, apparently because it was of a nude woman, without notifiying the photographer, Kenneth Wilks...

Rosetta Stone Suing Google For Trademark Infringment

Posted on July 13, 2009
Rosetta Stone, the popular language learning company, has sued Google for trademark infringement. The suit arises via Google's "Ad Words" advertising program, which links search words to trademarked products. Rosetta Stone claims that via Ad Words, Google misleads consumers...

Almost Like Being There: Live Blogging From the Sotomayor Hearings

Posted on July 13, 2009
Live blogging from the Caucus of the New York Times during the Sotomayor hearings.

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