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William Patry Closes Down His Copyright Blog

Posted on August 06, 2008
William Patry, who offered informed and insightful discourse for a number of years on his copyright blog, has closed it down, and the archives also seem to have disappeared. In his final post, Mr. Patry explains why. First, too many...

Moderators For Presidential, Vice-Presidential Debates Set

Posted on August 06, 2008
Bob Schieffer, Tom Brokaw, and Jim Lehrer will moderate three Presidential candidate debates this fall, according to a story in the Hollywood Reporter. Gwen Ifill will handle the honors for the single Veep debate in St. Louis. Nice to see...

Palace Denies Prince Philip Has Cancer, Plans to Complain To Press Complaints Commission Over London Standard Story

Posted on August 06, 2008
Buck House has fired off a salvo over the London Evening Standard's story about the Duke of Edinburgh's possible prostate cancer, and plans to carry the campaign to the Press Complaints Commission. The Palace denies the story and alleges that...

U. S. Department of State Issues Press Release On Conviction of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Posted on August 06, 2008
The U. S. Department of State has issued a statement criticizing the conviction of dual national (U.S.-Egypt) Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim for defaming Egypt. Here is the text. We are disappointed by the recent conviction in Egypt of democracy activist...

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Lawrence Lessig's Last Word (On This Topic, and Then, On To Other Things)

Posted on August 06, 2008
According to his blog, Lawrence Lessig is producing his last book, titled Remix, on the intersection of IP and the digital age. It's due for release this fall.

Tory Politician Says Men's Mags Disrespectful to Women, Lead to Destruction of Families

Posted on August 05, 2008
British Conservative party politician Michael Gove today said that men's magazines encourage young people to think of women as sex objects and lead to the destruction of the family. He contrasted the tone of these magazines with those aimed at...

Iranian Reporter Executed

Posted on August 05, 2008
Yaghoob Mirnehad, an Iranian journalist linked to the Jundallah movement, has been executed by the Iranian government. He was sentenced to death in February for "allegedly associating with a militant group and threatening national security," according to a Guardian article...

Thai Government Bans Sales of "Grand Theft Auto" After Cab Driver Found Slain, Teen Arrested

Posted on August 05, 2008
A Thai teenager has allegedly killed a cab driver by copying scenes from the video game Grand Theft Auto, and the local distributor has stopped sales in the country. The government has now banned sales of the game. The teen...

At Circuit City, They Don't Get MAD, They Give $20 Gift Cards

Posted on August 05, 2008
After somebody at corporate told the Circuit City stores that actually sell magazines to pull the August issue of Mad Magazine because it poked fun at Circuit City, the higher ups are making nice.First, they restored the mag to the...

Lying Writ Large

Posted on August 04, 2008
Thomas Mallon reviews the autobiography of the literary forger Lee Israel in yesterday's New York Times Book Review.

Madeleine McCann Files Released

Posted on August 04, 2008
The Madeleine McCann police files have been made public. Read more here.

FCC Tells Comcast Not To Block BitTorrent Use

Posted on August 04, 2008
In a three to two vote, the FCC told Comcast that it had illegally blocked users from using file-sharing software, and gave the company until the end of the year to desist from the practice. Said Kevin J. Martin, the...

Balkin on Media Access

Posted on August 04, 2008
Jack M. Balkin, Yale University Law School, has published, "Media Access: A Question of Design," in volume 76 of George Washington Law Review (2008). Here is the abstract. This essay, written for a symposium in honor of Jerome Barron, asks...

Third Circuit: Media May Publish Names of Prospective Jurors

Posted on August 04, 2008
In U. S. v. Wecht, the Third Circuit has ruled that the media has a presumptive right to publish the names of prospective and empanelled jurors, absent some special finding that they should be kept anonymous. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had...

The Image of the Israeli Supreme Court in the Media

Posted on August 04, 2008
Bryna Bogoch, Bar Ilan University, Interdisciplinary Department of Social Studies, and Yifat Holzman-Gazit, School of Law, Stanford Law School, have published "Mutual Bonds: Media Frames and the Israeli High Court of Justice," in 33 Law & Social Inquiry 53 (2008)...

British Film Board Defends Rating Given To New Batman Movie

Posted on August 04, 2008
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has given The Dark Knight, the new Batman film, a 12A rating, in spite of a scene that shows Batman beating up the Joker, which some say is too violent for younger viewers....

Egyptian Court Sentences Critic To Two Years in Prison

Posted on August 04, 2008
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, founder of the Ibn Khaldoun Centre for Development Studies, and a critic of the Egyptian government, has been sentenced to two years in prison for "defaming Egypt." Dr. Ibrahim is currently in the United States. He can...

Politics and Privacy in the UK

Posted on August 04, 2008
Norman Fowler writes about the double standard with regard to privacy when it comes to political figures here in today's Guardian.

Louisiana's Leaders Hoping To Lure More Moviemakers To State

Posted on August 01, 2008
Local and state leaders held a "film summit" to discuss how to encourage the film industry to continue coming to Louisiana to make movies here in the face of increasing competition from other states, such as Georgia and Michigan. Shreveport's...

A Malevolent and Disdainful Internet Subculture

Posted on August 01, 2008
Forthcoming in the New York Times Sunday Magazine: The Trolls Among Us.

L. A. Police Chief Repeats That New Paparazzi Ordinance Not Needed

Posted on August 01, 2008
Los Angeles police chief William Bratton has re-indicated his lack of interest in supporting city councilman Dennis Zine's "Britney-ized" paparazzi ordinance. The ordinance would create a licensing scheme for the photographers and a safety zone around celebrities when they are...

Autoadmit Plaintiffs Obtain Anonymous Posters' Names, Proceed With Case

Posted on August 01, 2008
The Jane Doe plaintiffs in the infamous Autoadmit lawsuit now have the names of the anonymous posters who made such statements as "Women named Jill and Hillary should be raped." The plaintiffs' contentions is that such statements became associated with...

Death Star Battle Over Storm Trooper Costumes Decided

Posted on July 31, 2008
It's difficult to tell who won in a court case over Star Wars Storm Trooper costumes decided today. George Lucas and Lucasfilm sued designer Andrew Ainsworth, who created the Storm Trooper helmets to go with the costumes, and has been...

The Debut of Wordscraper

Posted on July 31, 2008
That Scrabble "copy" is back, this time as "Wordscraper," and with some changes to avoid copyright infringement problems.

MP Committee Report Faults Some Internet Companies For Lack of Self-Regulation, Makes Suggestions

Posted on July 31, 2008
A committee of Members of Parliament has told some Internet giants that they simply don't do enough to regulate themselves and to protect their users. Particularly faulted in this respect was Google-owned YouTube. The Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee...

New J. K. Rowling Book To Hit the Stores

Posted on July 31, 2008
Remember that J. K. Rowling book that "would never be published?" It's being published. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, previously available in only seven copies, of which only one was sold (auctioned by Sotheby's last year for two million...

ASA Bans Teacher Recruitment Ad; It's Too Rosy

Posted on July 30, 2008
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad suggesting that a new teacher could earn 34,000 pounds a year. Those who complained to the regulatory agency said that the actual likely salary was much lower, and that 34,000 pounds was...

Scrabulous Scrapped

Posted on July 30, 2008
The scrappy inventors of Scrabulous, the Scrabble-inspired online game available via Facebook, is disabled for North American players as of today. They face a lawsuit from Hasbro, which owns the rights to the board game (there is an approved electronic...

California Judge Rules That Early Termination Fees Violate State Law

Posted on July 29, 2008
Plaintiffs have won a ruling in a California court against Sprint over early termination fees. A trial judge ruled that the telecommunications company's policy of charging such fees probably violates state law. Read more here in an AP story.

Sirius, XM Merge, Create Media Satellite Radio Giant

Posted on July 29, 2008
The AP notes that XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio have finished up their long-awaited merger, and will now do business as Sirius XM Radio. Here's more from Agence France Presse.

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