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TV Host Died From Drug Overdose

Posted on April 03, 2008
The ruling in the death of TV host Natasha Collins is "death by misadventure" as a result of a drug overdose. Her fiance Mark Speight, also a television host, was investigated after Ms. Collins was found dead in the couple's...

Reporters At Respected German Paper Admit Past Working For East German Secret Police

Posted on April 03, 2008
Resumes and work histories of the staff at the Berliner Zeitung, formerly a leading East Berlin newspaper, will be scrutinized following revelations that at least two leading journalists there were informants for the Stasi, the East German secret police...

Drink Up: Magistrate Judge Rules That Virginia May Not Limit College Newspaper Ads Referring To Alcohol

Posted on April 02, 2008
A magistrate judge has ruled that two Virginia administrative code provisions limiting or banning the language pertaining to alcohol ads in college newspapers violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Cavalier Daily, the student newspaper at Virginia Tech,...

NBC: The "Family," "Blockbuster," and "Adult Theme" Network

Posted on April 02, 2008
NBC has announced a new system for organizing its weeknight prime time viewing. At eight it will show "family hour" programming. Nine p.m. ushers in "blockbuster" shows, and at ten the network will show "adult theme" programs. Here's more about...

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Dutch MP Agrees To Edit Out Cartoon

Posted on April 02, 2008
Geert Wilders, a Dutch Member of Parliament whose movie "Fitna" criticizes the Koran, has agreed to remove the cartoon created by Danish artist Kurt Westergaard which sparked protests and violence when it first appeared in newspapers several years ago...

All Alone, SAG Set To Enter Into Talks With AMPTP For New Contract

Posted on April 02, 2008
Just as everyone gets those tax returns in, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) are set to begin talks on a new contract beginning April 15. The rush to begin negotiations...

Julie Hilden on Fox v. FCC

Posted on April 01, 2008
FindLaw's Julie Hilden weighs in on the Supreme Court's possible decision in the "fleeting expletives" case, Fox v. FCC here.

District Court Dismisses Group Libel Case Against NBC Universal

Posted on April 01, 2008
The U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has granted the defendant's motion to dismiss in the case of Diaz v. NBC Universal (the "American Gangster" case), a class action case in which the plaintiffs alleged...

David Hicks Now Able But Not Willing To Speak To Media

Posted on April 01, 2008
Former Guantanamo detainee David Hicks is now free to speak with members of the media about his experiences since a gag order has expired, but he's apparently not particularly interested in doing so, says his father. Mr. Hicks has completed...

Two Men Identified In Murder of Russian Journalist

Posted on April 01, 2008
Tajikistani officials say they believe they have identified two men who murdered Russian journalist Ilyas Shurpayev in March. The two men admit entering Mr. Shurpayev's apartment to rob and kill him. Read more here.

Gordon Brown Rethinks Bill On Illegal Media Purchase Of Personal Information

Posted on April 01, 2008
The British Prime Minister wants to abandon plans to criminalize the act of purchasing personal data by the media and suspicion is rife that he's being pressured by that very media. A bill providing for just such criminalization was marching...

Checkbook Journalism

Posted on April 01, 2008
An unnamed British paper is offering to pay gamers for personal stories about how video games lead to crime. Questions are swirling about this offer, since it's so mysterious, and since the British are currently evaluating the effects of online...

Woody Allen Sues American Apparel For Misappropriation

Posted on April 01, 2008
Actor and director Woody Allen ("Crimes and Misdemeanors", "Bananas", "Take the Money and Run") is suing American Apparel for misappropriation for using an image from his film "Annie Hall" on a billboard to sell its products. Mr. Allen says the...

The JuicyCampus Blog

Posted on March 31, 2008
JuicyCampus.com is fighting back against bad press and a recently launched investigation by the state of New Jersey with its own blog. Check it out here.

Dith Pran, 1942-2008

Posted on March 31, 2008
Dith Pran, the Cambodian photographer who with New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg documented the story of life under the Khmer Rouge, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 65. Mr. Pran eventually escaped Cambodia and came to the US...

Canada May Open Up Cable Market

Posted on March 31, 2008
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommications Commission (CRTC) is considering whether to allow foreign networks, particularly US broadcasting, into the domestic cable market, to allow more diversity and more competition onto the Canadian scene, after years of promoting Canadian product...

Is That Your Final Answer?

Posted on March 25, 2008
Fox, the network that won the "fleeting expletives" case against the FCC in the Second Circuit, a case that will now be heard in the Supreme Court, is now refusing to pay the much diminished fine that the agency has...

BBC Website In English Now Available In China

Posted on March 25, 2008
The BBC says that the People's Republic of China seems to have decided to allow access to its website, without any acknowledgement that previously the government was blocking such access. The unblocking seems to apply only to English-language material...

More Wireless Spectrum Available? Google Thinks So

Posted on March 25, 2008
Google is suggesting a plan to open up the "white space" available on the tv spectrum to allow more consumers to get access to wireless Internet access after broadcasters move to all digital broadcasting in 2009. The space could be...

Children Loose in a Virtual World

Posted on March 25, 2008
As parents and governments try to track their behavior and prevent their access to material that might be harmful to them, children and teens simply move more quickly to evade monitoring as well as to sites that are more fashionable...

Results of FCC Auction

Posted on March 24, 2008
So, who came out a winner in the recent FCC auction of the spectrum? Apparently, the usual suspects--AT&T and Verizon Wireless, which were the high bidders ($16 billion of the total $19 billion bid). Verizon Wireless took nearly every license...

Justice: Sirius/XM Merger Can Go Ahead

Posted on March 24, 2008
The Department of Justice has closed its investigation of the proposed merger between Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio Holdings, and has concluded that such a merger would not seriously diminish competition in the marketplace. The merger can now...

The Fair Use Defense in Copyright

Posted on March 24, 2008
Jennifer E. Rothman, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, has published "Why Custom Cannot Save Copyright's Fair Use Defense," at 93 Virginia Law Review in Brief 243 (2008). Here is the abstract. This article is a short reply to Richard Epstein's...

Two Russian Journalists Murdered

Posted on March 23, 2008
Russian law enforcement is investigating the murder of Ilyas Shurpayev, a Channel One correspondent, in his Moscow apartment. Firefighters found the body when they were called to the scene to put out a fire, which they believe was set after...

"Oprah Show" Audience Member Sues For Injuries

Posted on March 23, 2008
An audience member is suing Harpo Studios over injuries she alleges she suffered when visitors rushed to occupy seats at a December 2006 show. Orit Greenberg says she was permanently injured when staff at the Oprah Show told attendees they...

The New York Times On Fleeting Expletives at the Supreme Court

Posted on March 23, 2008
Today's New York Times features an editorial on the Supreme Court's decision to hear the Second Circuit's ruling in Fox v. FCC. The Supreme Court is throwing itself back into the debate over indecency on television, and that may not...

FCC Bans Exclusive Contracts On Telecommunications Services In Apartment Buildings

Posted on March 21, 2008
The FCC has nixed the practice of "exclusive contracts to provide telecommunications services in residential apartment buildings, and prohibited enforcement of existing contracts that contain exclusivity provisions"and "?triple-play? offerings of voice, video and broadband...

Turkish Human Rights Activist Sentenced To Six Months For "Insulting Turkishness"

Posted on March 21, 2008
Agence France Presse reports that a Turkish court has convicted a human rights activist of "insulting Turkishness" by telling the German paper Der Tagesspiegel that the Turkish army had too much political influence. Eren Keskin received a six month prison...

Former Media Head Indicted

Posted on March 20, 2008
A federal grand jury has indicated Drew Levin, former head of Team Communications Group, on stock fraud, conspiracy, and several other charges. Mr. Levin made tv films; among his well-known made for tv movies is The Matthew Shepard Story, which...

What the McCann Apology Means For British Law and Journalism

Posted on March 20, 2008
Here's additional coverage of the McCann libel apology from Clare Dyer, with a piece explaining why the award was so high, from the Guardian on whether the McCanns may sue other newspapers over stories about their involvement in Madeleine's disappearance,...

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