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FCC Adopts Protective Order In Matter of AT&T v. Cox

Posted on October 03, 2008
The FCC has adopted a protective order in the matter of AT&T v. Cox. We believe that AT&T has justified its request for enhanced confidential treatment of its documents and also those of Cox. AT&T has provided adequate justification for...

Maggie Brown on Ofcom and the BBC

Posted on October 03, 2008
Maggie Brown critiques Ofcom proposals for the BBC here.

Sarkozy Tries To Talk French Press Out Of Its Crise

Posted on October 03, 2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is starting talks today to try to assist the print media, which has been in crisis mode for some time. Read more here in a Guardian article.

British Consumer Advocacy Group Says Advertising Characters Used To Market Unhealthy Foods To Children, Asks Government To Step In

Posted on October 03, 2008
A British consumer advocacy group is calling for the government to investigate the use of cartoon characters on what it considers unhealthy foods marketed to children. Which? says that Kellogg's, for example, uses the popular Tony the Tiger character on...

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Copyright and the Social Contract

Posted on October 02, 2008
Alina Ng, Mississippi College School of Law, has published "The Social Contract and Authorship: Allocating Entitlements in the Copyright System," forthcoming in the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. Political and moral philosophy teach that there are norms...

Vietnamese Journalists Charged With False Reporting, Jailed

Posted on October 02, 2008
The AP reports that two Vietnamese journalists are being charged with "abusing freedom and democracy," for reporting falsely about a 2005 corruption scandal at the country's transportation ministry. Read more here.

SAG Board Urged to Put Strike To a Vote

Posted on October 02, 2008
The BBC reports that SAG member negotiators are asking the governing board to move toward a strike, after talks continue to look unlikely to resume. But is a strike a good idea given the financial and economic turmoil right now?...

Goodnight, Sun

Posted on October 02, 2008
The New York Times bids farewell to a rival paper.

More On India's Film Industry Strike

Posted on October 01, 2008
Here's more on the Bollywood strike from FindLaw.

Indian Court To Warner Brothers: "You Are Silly Muggles"

Posted on October 01, 2008
A Delhi court has tossed a Warner Brothers copyright infringement suit against an Indian film company, partly because the U. S. studio waited too long to proceed with its litigation and partly because the court simply didn't buy the argument...

India's Film Industry Stalls, Caused By First-Time Strike

Posted on October 01, 2008
Nyay Bhushan writes for the Hollywood Reporter that a first-ever strike has brought the Indian film industry to a halt. Performers and other workers, represented by the Federation of Western India Cine Employees, are demanding higher salaries and better working...

Ofcom Tells ITV Repeats of Popular Show Are In Inappropriate Timeslot, Too Violent

Posted on October 01, 2008
Ofcom has told ITV that it is repeating episodes of its popular series Taggart too often and some scenes from the series are "too violent." During the repeat run of the series in an afternoon slot, Ofcom received 13 complaints,...

CNN Show Anchor Gets Restraining Order Against Admirer

Posted on September 30, 2008
CNN's Robin Meade has apparently acted to obtain a restraining order against a man who traveled from Maine to Georgia to meet her, based on signals he thought he discerned from her. Needless to say, the anchor of "Morning Express...

How Much Influence Does the Drudge Report Have?

Posted on September 30, 2008
Read FindLaw's Julie Hilden on Matt Drudge's influence here.

Lawsuit Over Spore Hits California Court

Posted on September 30, 2008
NPR's Laura Slydell offers this look at the controversy over the Electronic Arts game "Spore".

Judge Dismisses False Light, Defamation Claims Against Washington Post

Posted on September 30, 2008
The U. S. District Court for the D. C. Circuit has dismissed a case against the Washington Post brought by a plaintiff who alleged that the Post's articles mentioning him and his hoarding and discussing a link between hoarding and...

Sienna Miller Wins Damages From Daily Star

Posted on September 30, 2008
The Daily Star has apologized to and will pay damages to Sienna Miller over a paparazzi photograph which it published of her and which she alleged violated her privacy. The photo was taken in Los Angeles. Read more here.

Judge Grants New Trial in Thomas Downloading Case

Posted on September 29, 2008
U. S. District Court Judge Michael J. Davis has reversed the verdict in Capital Records v. Thomas, saying that it had erred in instructing the jury, and is therefore granting Ms. Thomas a new trial. The disputed jury instruction, requested...

Thomson-Reuters Launches Lawsuit At George Mason, Claiming Zotero Is End Run Around EndNote

Posted on September 29, 2008
Thomson-Reuters is suing George Mason University for breach of contract and reverse engineering of its product EndNote. The University and the Center for History and New Media (based at GMU) are instead promoting a product called Zotero that Thomson-Reuters claims...

Spying on the Media

Posted on September 29, 2008
The Guardian's Hans Kundnani details the quickly emerging story that some of Germany's biggest concerns were spying on reporters during the 2005-2006 period.

You Look Scrabulous!

Posted on September 29, 2008
The Agarwalla brothers are back, with (presumably) a non-infringing version of online Scrabble called Wordscraper. The Guardian's Johnny Sharp has more here.

Complaints To PCC Gain Readers Apologies, Refund, Free Subscription

Posted on September 29, 2008
Two readers received apologies from media after complaining to the Press Complaints Commission. One thought Look's coverage of Jennifer Aniston's possible pregnancy was deceptive, and got an apology and a refund of the cost of the magazine. The other got...

Cutting Piracy By Making Music More Downloadable

Posted on September 29, 2008
The Guardian's Richard Wray writes about a new approach to making downloadable music available that might cut piracy.

MCPRS-PRS Says It Will Appeal EU Ruling

Posted on September 28, 2008
The MCPS-PRS Alliance says it will challenge a decision by Neelie Kroes, an EU competition commissioner, that holds that broadcasters should be able to negotiate to get the rights to a piece of music via a single rights society, rather...

Steven Tyler Sues Bloggers

Posted on September 27, 2008
Via the Citizen Media Law Project, Steven Tyler is suing some John Doe bloggers who impersonated him and girlfriend Erin Brady. Here's a link to the Reuters story which details the claims: misappropriation, public disclosure of private facts, and making...

Weinstein Plan To Take "Project Runway" To Lifetime Auf-ed, At Least Temporarily

Posted on September 27, 2008
The Weinstein Company had planned to take its hit show Project Runway, now airing on the Bravo Network, to the Lifetime Network after this season, but that plan has hit a snag. A judge has issued a preliminary injunction to...

The FCC on Communications Problems of First Responders

Posted on September 26, 2008
From the FCC: FCC MOVES A STEP CLOSER TO SOLVING NATION'S COMMUNICATIONS CHALLENGES CURRENTLY FACED BY AMERICA'S FIRST RESPONDERS Creation of Nationwide, Interoperable Public Safety Broadband Network Would Enable Police, Fire and Medical Personnel to Communicate With Each Other in...

Italian Court Vacates Italian Blocking Order Against Pirate Bay

Posted on September 26, 2008
The Swedish site Pirate Bay seems to have won its appeal against an Italian blocking order issued in August. Here's a tad more info.

Free Speech in California Schools: A Round-Up of the Law

Posted on September 26, 2008
Paul J. Beard II, Pacific Legal Foundation, and Robert Luther III, Knicely & Associates, have published "A Superintendent's Guide to Student Free Speech in California Public Schools," in 12 U.C. Davis Journal of Juvenile Law & Policy 1 (2008). Here...

A Blog on EU Media Law

Posted on September 26, 2008
If you are interested in EU media law, check out this blog: contentandcarrier. The bloggers are academics, attorneys and judges specializing in the area. Thoughtful, interesting posts.

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