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MySpace Defendant's Conviction Will Be Tossed

Posted on July 02, 2009
The judge overseeing the Lori Drew "MySpace" criminal case is set to throw out her misdemeanor conviction, indicating that because the jury did not convict her of felony charges he sees a constitutional problem, according to an MSNBC.com story. The...

ASA Rules That Ice Cream Ad Gives Offense

Posted on July 01, 2009
Remember those complaints over that "sexy" nun and priest ad for Antonio Federici Gelato Italiano? The Advertising Standards Authority (UK) has now nixed them after reviewing the complaints and the company's response. Read more here. The ASA first started looking...

From Unknown To Media Darling

Posted on July 01, 2009
TMZ's Harvey Levin.

Pirate Bay Has New Owner

Posted on July 01, 2009
Swedish company Global Gaming Factory X has purchased The Pirate Bay for more than four million pounds, assuring rights holders that they will get royalties, unlike the policy of the prior owners, who were sentenced to one year in prison...

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Copyright Law and Technology

Posted on July 01, 2009
Ben Depoorter, University of Miami School of Law and Ghent University Department of Legal Theory and Legal History, has published "Technology and Uncertainty: The Shaping Effect on Copyright Law," in volume 157 of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2009)...

Evaluating the Spectrum Auction

Posted on June 30, 2009
Ellen P. Goodman, Rutgers University Law School, has published "Spectrum Auctions and the Public Interest," in volume 7 of Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law (2009). Here is the abstract. Last year, the Federal Communications Commission held its largest...

First Amendment Documentary Airs Tonight

Posted on June 30, 2009
Premiering on HBO tonight at 9 p.m., 8 central, "Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech," a documentary from hypenate Liz Garbus, daughter of First Amendment attorney Martin Garbus. According to the Blog of Legal Times, It's a...

Scammers, Spammers, Are "Pouncing" On Jackson Death

Posted on June 30, 2009
...according to MSNBC.com story.

Anonymous Speech Online

Posted on June 30, 2009
Miguel E. Larios, The John Marshall Law School, has published "E-Publius Unum: Anonymous Speech Rights Online." Here is the abstract. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits Congress from enacting laws abridging the freedom of speech...

New Staff at FCC

Posted on June 30, 2009
Via the Blog of Legal Times, news that incoming FCC Chair Julius Genachowski has picked noted attorney Edward Lazarus as his chief of staff, and Priya Aiyar, Colin Crowell, Bruce Gottlieb, Ruth Milkman, Mary Beth Richards, and Sherrese Smith for...

The ISP as Speaker and Conduit

Posted on June 30, 2009
Rob Frieden, Pennsylvania State University, College of Communications, and Dickinson College of Law, has published "Invoking and Avoiding the First Amendment: How Internet Service Providers Leverage Their Status as Both Content Creators and Neutral Conduits...

Supreme Court Asks For Re-Argument In "Hillary: The Movie"

Posted on June 30, 2009
Here's a New York Times discussion of the Citizens United (the "Hillary: the Movie") case, the only one left over from this Supreme Court term.

New UK Family Court Rules Regarding Media Access Challenged

Posted on June 30, 2009
One celebrity is already arguing that UK family court proceedings involving famous families and their children should be closed to the media despite new rules opening such proceedings to the press. But an attorney for the media counters that high...

Academic Vampire Killing

Posted on June 29, 2009
In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Christina Hoff Sommers on "Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship," including those in law school textbooks.

David Rohde and Wikipedia

Posted on June 29, 2009
In Sunday's New York Times, an extremely interesting and provocative piece about the difficulties of keeping the news of David Rohde's abduction by the Taliban out of Wikipedia.

Not As Big as a Googol

Posted on June 29, 2009
Google's Dana Wagner is trying to convince the public, and the feds, that Google isn't all that big. There's room in the search engine world for Google's many competitors, he says. His company doesn't swallow up the whole. Read more...

The Fight Over Michael Jackson's Image

Posted on June 29, 2009
Tressa Baldas of the National Law Journal discusses the already mounting exploitation of the late Michael Jackson's image, and what his estate might and might not be able to do about it.

New York Times In Battle With Anti-Corzine Group Over Website

Posted on June 26, 2009
Via the blog Copyrights and Campaigns, this story about a cease-and-desist demand from the New York Times against the Republican Governors' Association for its parody of the paper. The RGA is in full pursuit of Senator Jon Corzine, up for...

Allegations Hit University of Hawaii Former Student Newspaper Editor

Posted on June 26, 2009
From the Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog: a story about problems at the University of Hawaii's student newspaper EIC. The university has confirmed that from January 2008 to May 2009, the editor, Kris DeRego, made up the names of...

Ofcom: Sky TV Should Offer Content To Others

Posted on June 26, 2009
Watchdog agency Ofcom says Sky TV (BSkyB), owned by Rupert Murdoch, should share its premium channel content with other broadcasters in order to ensure a competitive market, and asked all parties to make their opinions known by the middle of...

Gender Bias In the Theater

Posted on June 25, 2009
Harvard doctoral student Emily Glassberg Sands is presenting the results of empirical research that demonstrates that there is perceptable gender bias in the theater, in terms of how artistic directors choose which plays to present. Directors seem to prefer male...

Politkovskaya Verdict Tossed; Supreme Court Orders New Trial

Posted on June 25, 2009
Russia's highest court has ordered a new trial in the case of three men acquitted of murder in the case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. The three were acquitted in February. Ms. Politkoskaya's three children have now said it is time...

Daily Star Retracts Statements About David Beckham

Posted on June 25, 2009
Yet another retraction from a British paper: The Daily Star agrees that its story that David Beckham "made a play" for a Hungarian model was untrue. It is paying him substantial damages. Read more here.

Deadline Hollywood Daily Sells For $15 Million

Posted on June 25, 2009
Nikki Finke has sold her Deadline Hollywood Daily blog for a nice profit of $15 million. The blog became a prime site for information during the writers' strike and has stayed prominent since then as a source for breaking news....

Update On Franklin, Anderson & Lidsky, Mass Media Law Due Out Soon

Posted on June 25, 2009
From Professor David Anderson, co-author of Franklin, Anderson & Lidsky on Mass Media Law: The 2009 Supplement to Franklin, Anderson, & Lidsky, Mass Media Law, will be sent no later than July 10 to all law teachers known to Foundation...

Greek Quiz Show Banned

Posted on June 25, 2009
A program produced by Elisabeth Murdoch, called "The Moment of Truth," that is among the most popular on Greek television has been banned by Greek regulators after it aired some particularly embarassing scenes. The program, which is also on the...

It's Thyme For Some Catnip For the IP Lawyers: The "Coming Through the Rye" Lawsuit

Posted on June 24, 2009
FindLaw's Julie Hilden considers J. D. Salinger's copyright infringement lawsuit against Frederik Colting (that's "J. D. California" to you and me), the author of the "Catcher in the Rye" sequel "60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye." She discusses the...

Stars and Stripes Reporter Request For Embed Denied; Paper Says It's Censorship

Posted on June 24, 2009
Editors of the newspaper distributed to all U.S. troops say it has been censored by military brass because of what one reporter has previously written about the U.S. occupation in Iraq. Heath Druzin asked to be imbedded with the U....

Google's ItalianTrial On Hold

Posted on June 23, 2009
The trial of Google execs over a video posted on YouTube, which began this week, is delayed because of an interpreter's illness. Italian prosecutors claim that Google had an obligation to prevent airing of the video in order to protect...

Lily Allen Sues Over Comments In British, French Mags

Posted on June 23, 2009
Singer Lily Allen is suing the Sun over a report it published claiming she called former Spice Girl Victoria Beckman "a monster" and X Factor judge Cheryl Cole "stupid and superficial." Ms. Allen says the Sun is republishing comments from...

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