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American Apparel/Woody Allen Lawsuit Gets Ugly

Posted on April 15, 2009
The clothing company American Apparel is defending itself against a lawsuit by Woody Allen by saying that billboards using his image can't have damaged his reputation any more than he damaged it on his own. The company used a still...

Subpoenas, ISPs, Anonymous Posters, and Public and Private Plaintiffs In Defamation Suits

Posted on April 15, 2009
Jason C. Miller, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Law School, has published Who's Exposing John Doe? Distinguishing Between Public and Private Figure Plaintiffs in Subpoenas to ISPs in Anonymous Online Defamation Suits in volume 13 of Journal of Technology Law...

Privacy Law and Criminal Law In Hong Kong

Posted on April 15, 2009
Dennis J. Baker, King's College London School of Law, has published The Sense and Nonsense of Criminalizing Transfers of Obscene Material: Criminalizing Privacy Violations at 26 Singapore Law Review 126 (2008). Here is the abstract. The recent distribution of nude...

Advisor To Gordon Brown Quits Over Emails

Posted on April 15, 2009
An advisor to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has resigned over emails that have been called "smears" of opposition party members. Civil Service head Sir Gus O'Donnell also said they breached civil rules. Damian McBride quit his position as an...

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Judith Krug, Head of ALA's Office For Intellectual Freedom, Dies

Posted on April 15, 2009
Judith Krug, the first head of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, died Saturday at the age of 69. NPR has this remembrance.

Name For New ISS Module To Be Announced On "Colbert Report" Tonight

Posted on April 14, 2009
So will it be the "Colbert Chamber"? Or the "Serenity Space"? Or some other choice for the new module on the International Space Station? Astronaut Sunita Williams gets the honor of revealing the name on the Colbert Report tonight.

Louisiana's Governor To Write Book About His Life, Policies

Posted on April 14, 2009
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has signed a publishing deal with Regnery Books to write a book about his experiences and political views. The book, to be co-written with Peter Schweizer, should be out next year.

Doe, a Deer

Posted on April 14, 2009
Viral Julie Andrews in a train station. A Dutch talent show staged it to find an actress to play Maria in a new version of The Sound of Music, but hey, if it brings out the grins....

Regulating Digital Privacy Online

Posted on April 14, 2009
Jacqueline D. Lipton, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, has published 'We, the Paparazzi': Developing a Privacy Paradigm for Digital Video, in volume 95 of the Iowa Law Review (2009). Here is the abstract. In January 2009, the Camera...

Former NPR Journalist Tried On Espionage Charges

Posted on April 14, 2009
NPR reports that Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist who has reported for NPR in the past, was tried in secret, according to Iranian sources, on espionage charges. The court will issue its verdict soon.

Amazon.com At the Center of a Rankings Storm

Posted on April 14, 2009
A new Amazon.com policy through which the giant online retailer is trying to make its lists of top selling books more "family friendly" is apparently backfiring with a vengeance. A large variety of books have lost their sales rank because...

Jury Finds Phil Spector Guilty of Murder In Death of Lana Clarkson

Posted on April 13, 2009
The jury deliberating in the murder trial of record producer Phil Spector has found him guilty of second degree murder in the death of Lana Clarkson. Members of the panel rejected the option of finding him guilty of a lesser...

Project Runway Back On the Catwalk

Posted on April 12, 2009
Lifetime and NBC Universal have finally settled that Project Runway lawsuit. The Weinstein Company paid NBC for the rights, so Heidi, Tim, and the gang are finally moving to Lifetime. Look for Season 6 (already taped) later this year.

VA Objects To Veteran Interview; Demands Reporter's Equipment

Posted on April 11, 2009
An American University college radio station student ended up giving his sound card to a Veterans Administration public affairs officer who objected to his interview of an attendee at VA Town Hall meeting. Things deteriorated from there. Nevertheless, Mr...

Is It a Live Photographer, Or Is It a Taped Zombie?

Posted on April 11, 2009
A second TMZ photographer has filed a complaint over an altercation with actor Woody Harrelson, this time out of an event at La Guardia Airport. Mr. Harrelson and his daughter were returning from filming of the actor's new movie Zombieland....

Kanye West and "South Park"

Posted on April 10, 2009
Rapper Kanye West told the AP that the satiric show South Park had enough of an effect on him to cause a reality check. Something about not always telling people how dope he is. Read more here, and check out...

Appellate Court Reverses Trial Court; Suggests Test For Identification of Anonymous Posters In Defamation Action

Posted on April 10, 2009
In Independent Newspapers v. Brodie, the appellate court ruled that the trial judge abused his discretion when he ordered the defendants to identify anonymous posters in an Internet forum pursuant to a defamation action. The Court reviewed the record and...

Iraqi Journalist's Sentence Reduced To One Year

Posted on April 09, 2009
An appellate court has reduced Muntadhar al-Zeidi's sentence from three years to one year, citing his prior lack of a criminal record. Mr. al-Zeidi was convicted last month of throwing his shoes at former President George W. Bush. Read more...

London Police Offer Apology To Press Over G20 Restrictions

Posted on April 09, 2009
London's police have issued an apology to media photographers who had difficulty covering the G20 summit last week. Some photographers say some officers used section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 to prevent them from taking pictures of police...

Ofcom May Investigate Propriety of BBC Host's Remarks To Winning Grand National Jockey

Posted on April 09, 2009
Ofcom may investigate a BBC host's comment about a jockey's teeth after both it and the BBC received numerous viewer complaints that the remark was offensive. Host Claire Balding urged jockey Liam Treadwell, who had just won the Grand National,...

Adult Content Loose In Cyberspace

Posted on April 09, 2009
In a recent column, FindLaw's Eric Sinrod discusses access to adult content in cyberspace.

French Assembly Just Says "Non" To Internet Piracy Bill

Posted on April 09, 2009
The French National Assembly has rejected an Internet piracy bill that would have allowed ISPs to turn off service to users who download material illegally. Many legislators failed to turn up for the vote, which turned out to be 21-15....

Kicking Google Maps to the Curb

Posted on April 08, 2009
FindLaw's Anita Ramasastry discusses the recent debate over whether Google Maps should be allowed to continue its mapping of local neighborhoods--it's been disinvited in parts of the UK, where some citizens find its activities intrusive and where it may be...

More On Sexting

Posted on April 08, 2009
Here's another story, and some commentary, on "sexting."

Texting Teen Costs Parents Big Bucks, Earns A Lot of Failing Grades

Posted on April 08, 2009
These Wyoming parents thought they had disabled the texting capability on that cell phone they gave their thirteen year old. Think again. They got a four figure bill when she racked up 10,000 text messages in a month. Oh, and...

The Devil Is In the Details

Posted on April 08, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Education has this story about an embarrassing typo in Brigham Young University's student newspaper.

The Ward Churchill Verdict

Posted on April 08, 2009
Ward Churchill, the controversial University of Colorado prof who sued after he lost his tenured position at the University of Colorado, won his lawsuit and a $1 damages award from the jury. Why the $1 award? One juror explained that...

House of Lords Committee Suggests BBC Fees Should Support Rival Network Programming

Posted on April 08, 2009
A House of Lords committee studying the BBC license fee says part of it should be diverted to help support regional broadcasters that provide arts and news programming. The committee also noted the dangers of the BBC's possible cultural dominance...

Former NPR Journalist Charged With Espionage

Posted on April 08, 2009
NPR reports that journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been detained for some time in Iran, is being charged with espionage. Her visa ran out in 2006 but she stayed in the country doing some reporting and gathering material for a...

AP Wants More Control Over Its Content

Posted on April 07, 2009
The Associated Press is taking aim at news aggregators, blogs, and other media that use its content without paying, says a New York Times article. I won't quote from it.

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