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Wikileaks Moves To Swiss Service Provider After US ISP Forces It Offline

Posted on December 03, 2010
After numerous denial of service attacks degraded their customer service, Wikileaks' service providers forced it off the net. So it has moved to Switzerland and is back online. More here from MSNBC.com and the Guardian. Amazon.com, the online retailer, yanked...

FCC Chair Proposes New Rules of the Internet Road

Posted on December 03, 2010
FCC Chair Julius Genachowshi has proposed new "draft rules of the road to preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet." In his talk of December 1, he notes that his "proposed rules of the road are rooted in ideas...

Chilean Information Privacy and the Internet

Posted on November 26, 2010
Nicola Menaldo, Plawlotic Journal, has published ¿Viva La Data Protection?: How Culture Has Informed Chilean Information Privacy Law and What That Means for the Rest of the World. Here is the abstract. This paper attempts to uncover a puzzle: although...

Defamation After "Gutnick"

Posted on November 26, 2010
David Rolph, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, has published Publication, Innocent Dissemination and the Internet after Dow Jones & Co Inc v Gutnick at 33 University of New South Wales Law Journal 562 (2010). The High Court of Australia?s...

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Analyzing Copyright Law in the Modern World

Posted on November 24, 2010
Catherine Fisk, University of California, Irvine School of Law, has published The Modern Author at Work on Madison Avenue, in Modernism and Copyright 173 (Paul K. Saint-Amour ed., Oxford, 2010). Here is the abstract. This chapter of a book on...

IP and the Rhetoric of Name-Calling

Posted on November 24, 2010
Christina M. Mulligan, Yale University Information Society Project, and Brian Patrick Quinn, have published Who are You Calling a Pirate?: Shaping Public Discourse in the Intellectual Property Debates, presented at the Brandeis University Department of English Eighth Annual Graduate Conference,...

Cookie Monster On Late Night?

Posted on November 24, 2010
Clear the decks and vacuum up the crumbs: Cookie Monster is auditioning for a host gig on Saturday Night Live. And if he (it?) doesn't get an invite, it's time to call in Alicia Florrick, Nick Morelli, Pete Kaczmarek, and...

Viacom Bars Google TV Users From Access To Its Content

Posted on November 23, 2010
Viacom is now blocking Google TV users from watching full length episodes of its shows on the 'net, joining the other big networks. More here from The Hollywood Reporter. Interested viewers can still catch episodes on Viacom's websites; for example,....

Business Models For Newspapers and the Internet

Posted on November 22, 2010
The new book The Changing Business of Journalism and Its Implications for Democracy, published by Oxford, suggests that newspapers in the UK and the US depend too much on ads for their revenue, a business model that may need to...

Lawsuit Filed Against U Hawaii For Posting Of Student, Alumni Personal Info

Posted on November 22, 2010
A former University of Hawaii (Manoa) student is suing for invasion of privacy after one of the university's retired profs posted alumni info, including SSNs, online. Philippe Gross says someone used his personal information to make fraudulent charges and he...

Oregon Senator Moves To Block COICA

Posted on November 22, 2010
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is trying to block further movement on the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA), which he says gives the Attorney General too much authority to censor the Internet. More here from the San Francisco Chronicle...

SNL TSA Video Hits a Nerve

Posted on November 22, 2010
Link to the (now virally infamous) Saturday Night Live TSA skit: "It's our business to touch yours." Comment from the Huffington Post, OK Magazine, and CBS.

European Multiculturalism and Media Initiatives

Posted on November 22, 2010
Karina Horsti, University of Helsinki Faculty of Social Sciences, has published Celebrating Multiculturalism: European Multicultural Media Initiatives as Anti-Racist Practices in Anti-Racism & Multiculturalism: Studies in International Communication 153-168 (Mark D...

The FCC and the First Amendment

Posted on November 22, 2010
Hannibal Travis, Florida International University College of Law, has published The FCC's New Theory of the First Amendment at 51 Santa Clara Law Review 101 (2011). Here is the abstract. This article describes the Federal Communications Commission?s new theory of...

Terrorism and Online Speech Rules

Posted on November 19, 2010
Steven R. Morrison, University of North Dakota School of Law, is publishing Terrorism Online: Is Speech the Same as It Ever Was? in the 2010 volume of the Creighton Law Review. Here is the abstract. Like all of us, terrorists...

Update On Ronni Chasen Murder

Posted on November 19, 2010
An update on the Ronni Chasen murder. Police are now speculating that her death was planned. They are looking at footage obtained from security cameras at the Hackett estate. More here from the Hollywood Reporter, here from the Los Angeles...

Live Nation Files Lawsuit Against Former Head To Recover Payments

Posted on November 19, 2010
Live Nation is suing ex-chairman Michael Cohl for more than $5 million, alleging that he violated terms of his exit agreement with the company. Details here in an exclusive story from The Hollywood Reporter.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Remarks: Reread Them Today

Posted on November 19, 2010
November 19 is the 147th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's delivery of his remarks at Gettysburg. After Edward Everett, the featured speaker, had spoken for two hours giving his Gettysburg Address, the attendees were pleased but understandably tired. The President got...

Bollywood Lawyers

Posted on November 19, 2010
Apar Gupta, Amity Law School and Columbia Law School, has published Tareek Par Tareek: The Archetype and the Ethics of Indian Lawyers as Depicted in Popular Hindi Cinema. Here is the abstract. Few would quarrel with the influence and significance...

Applying "Citizens United"

Posted on November 19, 2010
Daniel Winik, Yale Law School, is publishing Citizens Informed: Broader Disclosure and Disclaimer for Corporate Electoral Advocacy in the Wake of Citizens United in volume 120 of the Yale Law Journal. Here is the abstract. This Note proposes a new...

MSNBC Suspends Joe Scarborough

Posted on November 19, 2010
That's two: MSNBC has suspended "Morning Joe" Scarborough, the former Rep and present MSNBC morning host, for making donations to Republican candidates; such donations are in violation of network policy. Keith Olbermann was suspended for violating the same policy...

Copyright and Content Online

Posted on November 18, 2010
Niva Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa Faculty of Law, is publishing Tailoring Copyright to Social Production, in volume 12 of Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2011). Here is the abstract. The prevalence of social production and the increase in User Generated Content...

Weinstein Company To Challenge MPAA Ratings Of Two New Releases

Posted on November 18, 2010
The Weinstein Company has decided to challenge the MPAA's ratings of NC-17 given to Blue Valentine and R given to The King's Speech. The studio's legal team includes David Boies, Bert Fields, and Alan Friedman. The studio objects to the...

Investigation Opened Into Some Student Behavior at Medill Innocence Project

Posted on November 18, 2010
State attorneys are investigating possible ethical and legal violations alleged to have been committed by Northwestern University journalism students working on the school's Innocence project. Prosecutors say the students may have secretly taped a witness while investigating one case, something...

Egyptian Blogger Release After Four Year Prison Sentence

Posted on November 18, 2010
Blogger Kareem Amer is out of jail after serving four years for insulting Islam and committing other crimes. Here is a link to a Reporters Without Borders press release announcing Mr. Amer's return to his home.

Google, Hachette Agree On Scans For Some French Out of Print Titles

Posted on November 18, 2010
Google and Hachette Livres have agreed on which copyrighted but o.p. materials Google can scan for its Google Books program. Hachette will make the call. Google is appealling a December French court ruling that found it in violation of French...

Student Speech On and Off School Grounds

Posted on November 18, 2010
Emily Gold Waldman, Pace University School of Law, is publishing Badmouthing Authority: Hostile Speech About School Officials and the Limits of School Restrictions, in volume 19 of the William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal. Here is the abstract. This...

Jeff Zucker On The Comcast/NBCU Merger

Posted on November 18, 2010
Jeff Zucker discusses the Comcast/NBCU merger and other issues here (via Hollywood Reporter).

Oyez Project moves to IIT Chicago-Kent

Posted on November 17, 2010
From the Chicago-Kent College of Law CHICAGO--November 12, 2010-IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law is the new headquarters of the Oyez Project (www.oyez.org ), a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work. Visited...

The NBA, Dress Codes, and Self Expression

Posted on November 17, 2010
D. Aaron Lacy, Southern Methodist University School of Law, has published Represent: Hip Hop Culture, the NBA Dress Code and Employment Discrimination. Here is the abstract. The National Basketball Association?s current dress code policy is discriminatory toward African-American men because...

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