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A New Model For Regulating Internet Pornography

Posted on May 12, 2008
Patrick M. Garry, University of South Dakota School of Law, has published "A New First Amendment Model for Evaluating Content-Based Regulation of Internet Pornography: Revising the Strict Scrutiny Model to Better Reflect the Realities of the Modern Media Age," in...

Panel Hears Locy Appeal

Posted on May 12, 2008
Toni Locy, a former USA Today reporter, and currently a professor of journalism at West Virginia Univeristy, battles on in the DC Circuit to keep her sources secret and reverse a district court judge's order that she pay thousands of...

Strike Looming at Thomson-Reuters

Posted on May 12, 2008
There's likely to be a strike at Thomson-Reuters, reports the Guardian today. Thomson bought the wire service last year and has been trying to cut costs. The National Union of Journalists has been negotiating for voluntary cutbacks but management refused...

Digital Broadcasting Testing To Begin In Wilmington, North Carolina in September

Posted on May 09, 2008
From the National Association of Broadcasters press release, dated May 9, 2008 NAB Statement Regarding DTV Test Pilot in Wilmington , NC Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the creation of an experimental test market ? the Wilmington ,...

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Turkish President Signs Amended Penal Code Article 301 Into Law

Posted on May 09, 2008
The President of Turkey has signed into law the amendment of Penal Code Article 301, which now makes it a crime to insult the Turkish nation rather than Turkishness. Many academics and journalists had been prosecuted under the former Article...

Journalist Fined For Printing Story About Government Labor Problems

Posted on May 09, 2008
An Egyptian court has slapped a journalist and editor with the equivalent of a two thousand dollar fine for publishing a story about labor problems inside a government agency. Last week, the same journalist also received a similar fine for...

Can They Sing It's Your Birthday Without Paying Royalties?

Posted on May 09, 2008
Robert Brauneis, George Washington University Law School, has published "Copyright and the World's Most Popular Song." Here is the abstract. "Happy Birthday to You" is the best-known and most frequently sung song in the world. Many - including Justice Breyer...

The Authorship Process

Posted on May 09, 2008
Alina Ng, Mississippi College School of Law, has published "Authors and Readers: Conceptualizing Authorship in Copyright Law," in the Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, Summer 2008. Here is the abstract. Copyright law recognizes authors as the first owners of...

No Prosecution Contemplated In "Pauper" Reality Show Case

Posted on May 08, 2008
After an investigation, the Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office has decided not to file charges against producer Marc Brilleman, who was arrested last month when some young women alleged that he held them against their will in an Apopka, Florida house,...

New York Civil Liberties Union Files Lawsuit On Behalf of Reporter Leonardo Blair

Posted on May 07, 2008
The AP reports that the New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging the NYPD's "stop and frisk" policy on the grounds that it unconstitutionally targets racial minorities. Here's a link to the NYCLU press release, explaining that...

Les Gr�ves

Posted on May 07, 2008
Strikes have hit the French papers La Tribune and Le Monde, La Tribune for the fifth time in less than twelve months, and Le Monde for the third time in a month.

Can You Hear Us Now?

Posted on May 07, 2008
On July 7, that won't be the question in Britain any longer. The Advertising Standards Authority is implementing new rules that require TV ads be "must not be excessively noisy or strident," after receiving many complaints from listeners. The ASA...

ASA Puts Weight Loss Product Company On Diet

Posted on May 07, 2008
The Advertising Standards Authority has told Goldshield Healthcare Direct, a company that markets weight loss products, that claims made in a recent ad campaign concerning its weight loss pill, LIPObind, were deceptive and that the ads are now banned...

Austrian Police Arrest Overeager Photographers in Fritzl Case

Posted on May 07, 2008
Police have arrested more than a dozen photographers attempting to get pictures of Elisabeth Fritzl and her children, who are at the center of the rape-incest case in a town in Austria. Spokespersons for law enforcement said that photographers were...

Literary Agent Sues Wikimedia, Claiming Defamation

Posted on May 06, 2008
Barbara Bauer, a literary agent in Matawan, New Jersey, has gone to court over a Wikipedia article (since removed) that called her the "dumbest of the twenty worst" literary agents, claiming defamation and tortious interference. Wikimedia (the parent org) claims...

Book About an Unusual Penguin Household Most Challenged Book of '07

Posted on May 06, 2008
For the second year in a row, a book in which a baby penguin has two fathers was the library book most objected to by parents, according to the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom. And Tango Makes Three...

ASA Investigating: Does PETA Ad Breach Rules?

Posted on May 06, 2008
The ASA is investigating a PETA sponsored anti-Kentucky Fried Chicken ad. Inside the pamphlet PETA makes allegations about the manner in which KFC treats its poultry and in which they are slaughtered. KFC complains the pamphlet is "offensive, irresponsible and...

Pay Inequity at Financial Times

Posted on May 06, 2008
The Media Guardian reveals that it has obtained access to an internal memo from the Financial Times that confirms that women employed at the paper earn less for comparable work overall than men. But the FT says the gap is...

Malaysian High Court Allows Challenge To Ban On Use of Word "Allah" By Non-Muslims

Posted on May 06, 2008
The Malayasian High Court is allowing the Roman Catholic paper the Herald to challenge a ban on the use of the word "Allah" by anyone other than Muslims. The paper used the word as equivalent to "God" recently and the...

"You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order!"

Posted on May 05, 2008
In a recent "Boston Legal" episode, Alan Shore (James Spader) excoriates the "Supreme Court" (played by lookalikes) for drifting away from "civil rights and liberties" to protectors of "pro-business". Read more in a Legal Times interview with producer/writer David E...

Hells Angels Founder Sues HBO, Director, For Copyright Infringement, Breach of Contract

Posted on May 05, 2008
Sonny Barger, founder of the motorcycle group the Hells Angels, has sued HBO and director Michael Tolkin for breach of contract, unjust enrichment, and misappropriation of personality rights over a tv pilot that Mr. Tolkin and HBO planned to develop....

How IP Informs the Cultural Bank

Posted on May 05, 2008
Michael J. Madison, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published "Intellectual Property and Americana, or Why IP Gets the Blues," at 18 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal 677 (2008). Here is the abstract. This essay, prepared...

Michigan Offers Hollywood Incentives To Locate Projects in Wolverine State

Posted on May 05, 2008
Michigan's legislature has passed, and Governor Jennifer Grantholm has signed, a new law that the state government hopes will bring substantial numbers of film projects to the state. The state's film office director indicates that already thirteen movies are slated...

Judge Hands Down Decision on Internet Royalties Rate

Posted on May 02, 2008
U. S. District Judge William O'Connor has devised a method for determining royalties owed by Yahoo, AOL, and RealNetworks to members of ASCAP. The parties have been waiting for such a formula for years, and the bills have been piling...

Who Owns Lennon Tapes?

Posted on May 02, 2008
Yoko Ono Lennon is suing World Wide Video over 10 hours of footage shot by Mrs. Lennon's ex-husband Anthony Cox of John Lennon, Mrs. Lennon and their children, claiming that she owns the rights to the video, which she purchased...

More On That eBay-Craigslist Lawsuit

Posted on May 02, 2008
We're finally getting a look at the complaint in the eBay-Craigslist lawsuit. According to a Craigslist blogpost, it's all about the ads. ... 1. Ebay is suing us for implementing a shareholder rights agreement, which it has called a ?poison...

Complaints About Greenwashing Up, According To ASA

Posted on May 02, 2008
The Advertising Standards Authority reports receiving a record number of complaints about corporate environmental practices--an activity called "greenwashing." Read more here.

"Sex Pest" Story Costs London Standard Nearly Six Hundred Thousand Pounds

Posted on May 02, 2008
The London Standard's story labelling an Air India executive a "sex pest" will cost it 85,000 pounds in damages and about half a million pounds in legal fees, after a jury decided that the paper failed to prove that its...

Unfair Dismissal Case Against al-Jazeera Adjourned For Four Months

Posted on May 02, 2008
An employment discrimination case brought by Jo Burgin against the al-Jazeera network has been put off for four months. Ms. Burgin alleges that she did not have her contract renewed for gender, race and religious reasons. Read more here. Al-Jazeera...

Sudanese Cameraman Released From Guantanamo Bay Detention

Posted on May 02, 2008
U.S. authorities have freed Sami al-Haj, a cameraman who was arrested while on assignment for al-Jazeera in Afghanistan in 2002 because the government believed he was working with al-Qaeda. The U.S. government held him at the facility at Guantanamo Bay...

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