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Hilden on Moreno v. Hanford Sentinel

Posted on April 27, 2009
FindLaw's Julie Hilden discusses the Moreno case here; it's the one in which a high school principal submitted a former student's poem (previously published on MySpace) to a local paper without her permission. The poem was not complimentary of the...

A Critique of the Right of Publicity

Posted on April 27, 2009
Steven Semeraro, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, has published Distinguishing the Right of Publicity: Property Rights, Free Speech Privilege, and Competition Policy, as TJSL Legal STudies Research Paper No. 1374110. Here is the abstract. The right of publicity is an...

Comcast v. FCC: An FCC Rule Gets a Review

Posted on April 27, 2009
Here's coverage of the Comcast Corp. v. FCC case from court watchers. The April 24th showdown was, by all accounts, very interesting. From Broadcast Newsroom and from the Legal Times Blog. The BLT also noted that the case was likely...

Presidential Press Conference Will Not Be Aired On Fox Come Wednesday

Posted on April 27, 2009
Fox will not air the President's prime time news conference Wednesday, instead airing its regular programming, Lie To Me. The press conference will be available on other Fox networks, including the Fox Business Channel. Read more here.

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"Do You Realize" Now OK State Song

Posted on April 25, 2009
Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry is signing an executive order making the Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize?" the state's rock song. The Oklahoma Senate had voted to do so but the House couldn't muster the required number of votes needed for...

ABC, Actor Sued For Sexual Harassment

Posted on April 25, 2009
From TMZ.com: A former ABC employee is suing ABC and Henry Ian Cusick, "Desmond" on the show "Lost", for sexual harassment. and wrongful dismissal. The suit stems from an incident last October.

Channel 4 Wins Defamation By Fiction Claim

Posted on April 24, 2009
A U.S. judge has tossed a defamation by fiction claim, saying that no reasonable person could believe that the character "Ali G" (Sacha Baron Cohen) was discussing in an interview with novelist Gore Vidal was a real person, even though...

UK Entertainment Industry Says It Needs More Assistance From the Government To Protect Itself From Pirates

Posted on April 24, 2009
The Guardian's Jemima Kiss covers the Industry Trust's warning from the United Kingdom's entertainment industry to the government: do more to stamp out piracy or legitimate film, music, and tv offerings will disappear.

Author Jared Diamond Sued For Defamation

Posted on April 24, 2009
According to this Chronicle of Higher Education account, author Jared Diamond is being sued for defamation over a New Yorker article in which he discusses New Guinea clan warfare. Two Papua New Guinea tribesmen are now claiming that because of...

Fulbright Scholar Program Opportunities In Law

Posted on April 23, 2009
Fulbright Scholar Program for US Faculty and Professionals for 2010-2011 is open The Fulbright Scholar Program is offering 74 lecturing, research or combined lecturing/research awards in law, including six Fulbright Distinguished Chairs. Even better, faculty and professionals in law also...

Britain's Information Privacy Commissioner Rejects Complaints About Google Street View; Says Its Use Doesn't Invade Privacy

Posted on April 23, 2009
The agency responsible for protecting British citizen privacy says Google Street view does not violate it, based on other current practices including Twitter, blogging, and use of services such as MySpace and Facebook. The Information Privacy Commissioner's Office says that...

Reporter Vs. Cop

Posted on April 22, 2009
CNN video: a confrontation between a reporter and a police officer. The reporter wants to interview witnesses at the scene of an accident and the police officer doesn't want him to do so. The cameraman just keeps filming--well, until he...

Iranian/American Journalist Appeals Sentence

Posted on April 22, 2009
Roxana Saberi's lawyer has appealed her eight-year sentence for espionage, as Iran's president has announced he will not intervene in the judicial process.

CNN and That DMCA Takedown Notice

Posted on April 22, 2009
Ben Sheffner comments here on CNN's DMCA takedown notice sent to YouTube over Susan Roesgen's encounter with some "Tea Party" protesters on April 15th. Here's comment from blogger The Legal Tech Guy. Howard Kurtz and his guests also commented on...

Law Professor Wins Pulitzer Prize For Historical Work

Posted on April 21, 2009
Law professor Annette Gordon-Reed has won a Pulitzer Prize (History) for her book The Hemings of Monticello: An American Family (Norton). She also won a National Book Award for her work.

Rodney Smolla On IMS Health Inc. v. Ayotte

Posted on April 21, 2009
Rodney Smolla, Dean of Washington & Lee Law School, analyzes the IMS Health Inc. v. Ayotte case for Legal Times here. Here's a page on the case from the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

Cheerleading Coach Poses For "Playboy," Loses Job

Posted on April 20, 2009
A cheerleading coach at Casa Robles High School in Sacramento, California has lost her job after school officials learned she posed for Playboy's "Cybergirls of the Week" as "Carlie Christine." She worked for the high school as Carlie Beck. Read...

The Ups and Downs of Legislating Video Poker

Posted on April 20, 2009
North Carolina legislators are taking another stab at outlawing video poker--at least, they're trying. But their efforts might interfere with an ongoing case, so they've backed off, at least for the moment. Read more here in an article from the...

Madonna Falls From Horse; She Says Paparazzi Scared It

Posted on April 20, 2009
According to the Guardian, Madonna fell from her horse at a friend's place in the Hamptons when paparazzi popped out of the bushes and scared the animal while trying to get photos of her as she rode. But at least...

Father Says He Never Agreed To Allow "Slumdog Millionaire" Child Actress To Be Adopted

Posted on April 20, 2009
The BBC reports that the father of one of the children who appeared in the hit film Slumdog Millionaire denies agreeing to allow undercover reporters pretending to represent a wealthy Arabic couple to adopt his daughter for cash. Rafiq Qureshi...

Journalist's Trial Is Getting Review

Posted on April 20, 2009
NPR has this story on developments in the conviction of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who received a one day, closed door trial, and was then sentenced to eight years in prison. An Iranian judge has ordered further investigation into her...

London Police Seize Tourist's Vacation Snaps

Posted on April 17, 2009
London police have seized an Austrian tourist's vacation photos in the name of national security. Specifically, they took all photos having to do with transportation (all those iconic London buses and bus stations). The Metropolitan Police indicated it is investigating...

Pirate Bay Team Convicted, Sentenced

Posted on April 17, 2009
A Swedish court has convicted, sentenced, and fined the Pirate Bay website founders for copyright violations. The four men, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde, were sentenced to a year in jail and fines of four...

Indonesian Supreme Court Rules For Time Magazine in Suharto Defamation Appeal

Posted on April 17, 2009
Time Magazine has won a reversal of the defamation verdict against it in the Suharto case. The Indonesian Supreme Court reversed its own 2007 ruling, finding that statements in Time's 1999 article did not deviate from the Indonesian press code....

First Circuit Grants Appeal of Record Companies to Deny Webcast in Tenenbaum Case

Posted on April 17, 2009
The First Circuit has granted the request of the record companies that the proceedings in the case between the RIAA and Joel Tenenbaum not be webcast. The district judge, Nancy Gertner, had granted the request, but the recording industry had...

The Regulation of Video Games

Posted on April 17, 2009
Emile Loza, Technology Law Group, has published Video Software Dealers Ass'n v. Schwarzenegger: A Rising Ninth Circuit Case on the Constitutionality of States' Regulation of Minors' Access to Violent Video Games, at 25 Computer & Internet Lawyer 1 (May 2008)...

That Amazon Glitch

Posted on April 16, 2009
Helen Popkin updates us on the Amazon.com "glitch." She says the problem was customer service.

Law Professors Sue West Publishing Over Treatise Pocket Part

Posted on April 16, 2009
Two law professors have sued West over a supplement to Pennsylvania Criminal Procedure: Law, Commentary, and Forms, which they say does not fairly represent their work. The publisher issued the 2008 pocket part, which normally contains summaries of about 150...

Nurse Fired After She Secretly Films Patients At British Hospital

Posted on April 16, 2009
A nurse has been dismissed from her position after she secretly filmed patients at the hospital where she worked for the benefit of BBC documentary filmmakers who were doing undercover work to discover bad conditions at the institution, the Royal...

"Tranquility" Gets the Nod For Node

Posted on April 15, 2009
Astronaut Sunita Williams revealed on last night's Colbert Report that NASA has decided to name the new International Space Station module "Tranquility" after the Sea of Tranquility, the original landing spot for humans on the moon. But the agency did...

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