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Appeals Court Grants Leave To Appeal, Stays Fine, For Former USA Today Reporter

Posted on March 13, 2008
The U. S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has granted a stay and allowed former USA Today reporter and current West Virginia University professor of journalism Toni Locy to appeal the ruling issued by U. S. District Court...

Eighth Circuit Reverses Decision of Trial Court As To Publisher in Steinbuch v. Cutler

Posted on March 13, 2008
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted Robert Steinbuch's request for discovery on the issue of whether Hyperion Books, the publisher of Jessica Cutler's "sexually explicit novel", has sufficient minimum contacts with Arkansas to allow it to be sued...

The Wireless Spectrum and Regulation

Posted on March 13, 2008
Phil Weiser, University of Colorado Law School, and Dale Hatfield, University of Colorado at Boulder, have published "Spectrum Policy Reform and the Next Frontier of Property Rights" in volume 60 of the George Mason Law Review (2007). Here is the...

Interpreting the DMCA

Posted on March 13, 2008
Timothy K. Armstrong, University of Cincinnati College of Law, has published "Fair Circumvention" as University of Cincinnati Public Law Research Paper 08-08. Here is the abstract. Judicial decisions construing the key liability provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA),...

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New Technologies, Copyright Infringement, and Emerging Legal Norms

Posted on March 13, 2008
Jane C. Ginsburg, Columbia Law School, has published "Separating the Sony Sheep From the Grokster Goats: Reckoning the Future Business Plans of Copyright Dependent Technology Entrepreneurs" as Columbia Public Law Research Paper 08-166. Here is the abstract...

Translation Available of "Piratebay.org" Case

Posted on March 13, 2008
Henrik Stakemann Spang-Hanssen has published a translation of the "Piratebay.org" court ruling. It is available via SSRN here. Here is an abstract of the case. This is an English translation of the Danish injunction order in the so-called thepiratebay...

TV News Reporter Assaulted By Angry Family Members

Posted on March 12, 2008
CNN and Fox News report that a local journalist from WSPA-TV in Union, South Carolina, reporting on a possible murder was attacked by members of the suspect's family, who shouted racial epithets. Members of another news crew filmed the attack....

Former Reporter in Hatfill Case Asks Appellate Court For Assistance

Posted on March 11, 2008
Former reporter Toni Locy, now a journalism professor at West Virginia University, is asking the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to reverse a district court judge's order that she reveal the sources that gave her information...

FCC Chair Martin's Address at Stanford

Posted on March 11, 2008
FCC Chair Kevin Martin addressed attendees at the "Legal Futures" conference at Stanford Law School on March 7. Here's the link.

Online Newspapers and Public International Law

Posted on March 11, 2008
Henrik Stakemann Spang-Hanssen has published "A Just World Under Public International Law in Cyberspace: Jurisdiction," in volume 13 of the Annual Survey of International and Comparative Law (2007). Here is the abstract. In this article, I first state my six...

MIT-Elsevier Agreement Allows More Use of Copyrighted Materials

Posted on March 11, 2008
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that MIT and Elsevier, the publishing giant, have come to an agreement that allows MIT to use some of the material from Elsevier's journals in MIT's OpenCourseWare project. This agreement will presumable save MIT...

MySpace and Social Networking Codes of Conduct

Posted on March 11, 2008
Adam Thierer, Progress & Freedom Foundation, has published "The MySpace-Ag Agreement: A Model Code of Conduct for Social Networking?" as Progress & Freedom Foundation Progress on Point Paper No. 15.1. Here is the abstract. The agreement between MySpace and 49...

Evaluating Law Professor Blogs and Blogging

Posted on March 11, 2008
J. Robert Brown, University of Denver School of Law, has published "Of Empires, Independents, and Captives: Law Blogging, Law Scholarship, and Law School Rankings," as University of Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-04. Here is the abstract. Law faculty...

Irish Court of Appeals Overturns Restaurant Review Case

Posted on March 10, 2008
Eoin O'Dell of Cearta.ie notes that an appellate court has overturned the decision that found the Irish News liable for defamation for a restaurant review. Read more here and here. [Hat tip to Professor O'Dell].

Regulating Telephony

Posted on March 10, 2008
John W. Mayo, Georgetown University, has published "It's No Time to Regulate Wireless Telephony," at The Economists' Voice (v. 5, issue 1, article 3)(2008). It's downloadable from The Berkeley Electronic Press here.

More On Network Neutrality

Posted on March 10, 2008
Viktoria Kocsis and Paul de Bijl, CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis, have published "Network Neutrality and the Nature of Competition Between Network Operators," in volume 4 of International Economics and Economic Policy (2007). Here is the abstract...

A Paper on U. S. Broadband Regulation

Posted on March 10, 2008
Thomas W. Hazlett, George Mason University, and Anil Caliskan, George Mason University School of Law, have published "Natural Experiments in U. S. Broadband Regulation," as George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper 08-04. Here is the abstract. Network neutrality (NN)...

Bloggers Strike at the Honolulu Advertiser

Posted on March 10, 2008
From a sister blog [brother blog?] comes the news that bloggers at the Honolulu Advertiser have apparently pulled off the first ever bloggers' strike. Backed by Newspaper Guild-CWA Local 39117, these writers at the paper managed to get new talks...

When the Media Becomes the Story

Posted on March 10, 2008
The New York Times's Adam Cohen discusses the sad story of ADA Louis William Conradt, caught by NBC's "To Catch a Predator" and local law enforcement. Mr. Conradt killed himself, and his family sued NBC. A federal judge is allowing...

Network Neutrality in the EU

Posted on March 10, 2008
Filomena Chirico, Ilse M. Van Der Haar, and Pierre Larouche, all of the Tilburg Law and Economics Center, have published "Network Neutrality in the EU" as TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2007-030. Here is the abstract. This paper seeks to assess...

Regulation of Advertising in Online Games

Posted on March 10, 2008
Thomas Steiner, NCCR Trade Regulation - Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research, has published "Advertising in Online Games and EC Audiovisual Media Regulation" as NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2008/3. Here is the abstract. Advertising in Online Games...

Australian Mag Says It's Sorry For "Prince Harry" Story

Posted on March 10, 2008
An Australian magazine which "outed" Prince Harry earlier this year now says it did not know about an agreement between the British press and the Ministry of Defence to keep his deployment in Afganistan a secret. The magazine, New Idea,...

The Ethics of Publishing

Posted on March 10, 2008
Here's more from Roy Greenslade, this time on whether The Scotsman should have published that interview with Samantha Power, then advisor with Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama.

What's Ahead For the New York Times

Posted on March 10, 2008
From across the pond, Roy Greenslade shares a view of the woes besetting the New York Times.

It's Baby Weight, You Meanies!

Posted on March 09, 2008
Lisa Marie Presley, now Mrs. Michael Lockwood, is suing the Daily Mail over reports that she had gained weight. She says that once journalists began speculating that she was putting on the pounds, just like her late father Elvis had,...

Judge Rules Former Reporter In Contempt, Imposes Fine

Posted on March 09, 2008
U. S. District Judge Reggie Walton has found former reporter Toni Lacy in contempt for failing to disclose the identify of sources who leaked information to her about Dr. Steven Hatfill. Dr. Hatfill is suing the Department of Justice for...

FCC Isses Report, Order, Notice of Proposed Rule Making On Participation of Minorities and Women

Posted on March 07, 2008
The FCC has issued a "Report and Order and Third Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making" concerning increased "participation in the broadcasting industry by new entrants and small businesses, including minority- and women-owned businesses, which historically have not been well-represented...

English Reporter Wins Unfair Dismissal Case Against Al-Jazeera

Posted on March 07, 2008
Al-Jazeera has lost an unfair dismissal case to Yvonne Ridley, a journalist who claimed she was fired for protesting "the removal of stories she had published about the behaviour of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on al-Jazeera's English-language website...

Britain On the Way To Eliminating Offense of Blasphemy

Posted on March 07, 2008
The House of Lords has voted to eliminate the common law offenses of blasphemy and blasphemous libel in England and Wales by an overwhelming vote (nearly 2 to 1 for). The last prosecution for blasphemy in England was eighty years...

French Court: Donnez Des Notes Aux Professeurs, C'est Interdit

Posted on March 07, 2008
Unlike U.S. students, French students are apparently not allowed to "rate their profs," at least according to a French court. French unions and the French education ministry filed a lawsuit when a website popped up purporting to do that, claiming...

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