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Will Charlie Sheen Return TO TAHM?

Posted on March 22, 2011
From the Today show: a report that CBS might be willing to take Charlie Sheen back as star of Two and a Half Men, if he bridges the enormous divide between himself and exec producer Chuck Lorre and Warner Brothers....

Cornell University: "That's It!" To Library Vendor NDAs

Posted on March 22, 2011
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, news that the Cornell University Library system has decided to cease entering into contracts with vendors that require non-disclosure agreements concerning pricing. Here is the library's statement from its website...

Harmonizing Internet Regulation

Posted on March 22, 2011
Dan Svantesson, Bond University School of Law, has published A Legal Method for Solving Issues of Internet Regulation; Applied to the Regulation of Cross-Border Privacy Issues as EUI Working Papers LAW No. 2010/18. Here is the abstract. This article presents...

Copyright Infringers and the Digital Economy

Posted on March 22, 2011
William H. Dutton, University of Oxford; Oxford Internet Institute, has published Aiming at Copyright Infringers and Hitting the Digital Economy, at 28 Prometheus 385 (December 2010). Here is the abstract. This article was written as a response to a piece...

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Regulating the Internet Marketplace

Posted on March 22, 2011
Rob Friedan, Pennsylvania State University, has published Legislative and Regulatory Strategies for Providing Consumer Safeguards in a Convergent Information and Communications Marketplace in the Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, volume 33...

You Want Tiger Blood?

Posted on March 22, 2011
International Grand Champion of Magic Greg Frewin, who works with real tiger blood (the feline in this clip is named Rocky), offers this parody of Charlie Sheen's recent troubles. Tip of the magic hat to iTricks.

French Watchdog Agency Fines Google Over Street View Program

Posted on March 21, 2011
French agency CNIL (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libert�s) has fined Google 100,000 Euros for breaching security and privacy laws via its Street View program. The ruling was based on among other sources the Council of Europe Convention for...

Turkish Government Obtains Release of New York Times Journalists

Posted on March 21, 2011
Turkey has brokered the release of four New York Times journalists, and they are safe within the Turkish Embassy in Tripoli, according to news reports. Here's coverage from MSNBC.com. Confirmation here from the New York Times.

Rating Cable News

Posted on March 21, 2011
Andrew D. Selbst has published The Journalism Ratings Board: An Incentive-Based Approach to Cable News Accountability at 44 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 467 (2011). Here is the abstract. The American establishment media is in crisis. With newsmakers...

The Gray Lady Begins Charging For Online Access March 28

Posted on March 21, 2011
The New York Times rolls out its online pay wall March 28. Here's an article, by the Times' Jeremy W. Peters, of how Times management came to a decision about how to charge for access to online content.

The ATT/T-Mobile Merger

Posted on March 21, 2011
Some early reporting on the ATT/T-Mobile merger: from Fortune, from CNN Money, from CNN Tech, from Reuters, and from a Wall Street Journal blog, MarketBeat.

The Dormant Commerce Clause, E-Commerce and the First Amendment

Posted on March 18, 2011
Scott Gaylor and Andrew J. Haile, Elon University School of Law, are publishing Constitutional Threats in the E-Commerce Jungle: First Amendment and Dormant Commerce Clause Limits on Amazon Laws and Use Tax Reporting Statutes in the North Carolina Law Review...

Filmmaker To Be Extradited To France Over Murder Case

Posted on March 18, 2011
The Irish High Court has authorized filmmaker Ian Bailey's extradition to France for questioning in the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, who was found dead in 1996 at her Irish vacation home. Although no one has been charged in...

Tim Wu On the Future of the Net

Posted on March 18, 2011
Tim Wu, whose book The Master Switch, hit the bookstores last November in the US, is released in the UK this week. More here in a Guardian article.

Libya Says It Will Release Four Reporters Today

Posted on March 18, 2011
Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi told ABC's Christiane Amanpour that Libya's government will release four New York Times reporters shortly, the paper has announced. The Libyans have held the four journalists since Tuesday.

U.S. Editor Prevails In Internet Libel Case Brought By Unhappy Author

Posted on March 17, 2011
A French court has ruled in the Karin Calvo-Goller case. As you may remember, Dr. Calvo-Goller was unhappy about a book review of a work she had written, penned by Dr. Thomas Weigend and posted by Dr. Joseph Weiler on...

New Mexico May Change Tax Credit Scheme

Posted on March 17, 2011
The New Mexico Legislature is tinkering with its state film tax credit. While the governor would like to limit the credit to fifteen percent, the lawmakers seem to favor twenty-five. However, to limit the amount of money flowing to film...

New York Times Journalists Missing Since March 15

Posted on March 17, 2011
From MSNBC.com's Photoblog, the last known image of four New York Times journalists covering the uprising in Libya. They have been missing since Tuesday.

Can You Tell Me How To Save, How To Save Sesame Street?

Posted on March 16, 2011
Sesame Streeters descended on Capital Hill today to ask Congress not to cut funding for PBS programming and for the fictional neighborhood. Emilio Delgado, Roscoe Orman, Alison O'Reilly, Bob McGrath, and Alan Muraoka, all members of AFTRA (American Federation of...

Judge Convicts Former Nurse Of Aiding Suicide; Rejects Free Speech Defense

Posted on March 16, 2011
A Minnesota judge has ruled that a former nurse's "encouragement" of suicide amounted to "lethal advocacy" and has convicted a defendant of two counts of aiding suicide. Thomas Neuville will sentence William Melchert-Dinkel, who had argued that his online statements...

Bar Applications and the Relevance of Social Network Information

Posted on March 16, 2011
Daniel F. O'Brien, St. Thomas University School of Law, has published Facebook vs. The Florida Bar. Here is the abstract. This piece discusses social networking websites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter and MySpace) and their importance vis-�-vis the First Amendment in terms...

Wikileaks, Freedom and Sovereignty

Posted on March 16, 2011
Balazs Bodo, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, has published You Have No Sovereignty Where We Gather ? Wikileaks and Freedom, Autonomy and Sovereignty in the Cloud. Here is the abstract...

Gilbert Gottfried Gone From Aflac Commercials

Posted on March 15, 2011
Aflac, the insurance company, has parted ways with comedian Gilbert Gottfried, who provides the voice for the Aflac duck, after Mr. Gottfried sent out what the company characterized as "tasteless tweets" on the subject of last week's earthquake and tsunami...

British Government Release Draft Defamation Bill To Address Libel Tourism

Posted on March 15, 2011
From the Independent: with a new Defamation Bill, the British government announces changes in libel laws that seek to protect the expression of honest opinion. More here from Inform's Blog, the BBC, but some criticism from the Content ETC blog....

Did He Or Didn't He?

Posted on March 15, 2011
From the New York Times: more on former German defense minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg's doctoral dissertation and the political debate it caused: did he or didn't he plagiarize?

The Digital Copyright Dilemma

Posted on March 15, 2011
Peter K. Yu, Drake University Law School, has published Digital Copyright and Confuzzling Rhetoric, in volume 13 of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (2011). Here is the abstract. The entertainment industry tells people they shouldn?t steal music...

Media Coverage of Immigration

Posted on March 14, 2011
Chris Stephen Haynes presented How Do You Portray Me? Media Coverage of Immigration at the Western Political Science Association 2011 Annual Meeting. Here is the abstract. Immigration has once again become a highly charged issue in American politics. Primarily using...

Cultural Protectionism in the Media and On the Net

Posted on March 14, 2011
Mira Burri-Nenova, University of Bern Law School & World Trade Institute, has published Enquiry into the Notion of Cultural Protectionism in the Media and its Dimensions in Cyberspace in "Bits Without Borders: Law, Communications and Transational Culture Flow in the...

Extraterritorial Enforcement of IP Rights in the EU

Posted on March 14, 2011
Marketa Trimble, University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Law is publishing Extraterritorial Intellectual Property Enforcement in the European Union in the Southwestern Journal of International Law. Here is the abstract. This paper was prepared for the 2011 ABILA International...

Charlie Sheen v. Warner Brothers and Chuck Lorre--Who's the WINNER?

Posted on March 14, 2011
Charlie Sheen's contract has an arbitration clause. Does that spell doom for his $100 million lawsuit against Warner Brothers and Chuck Lorre? THR Esq. opines here. And a reaction from Mr. Lorre's attorney, Howard Weitzman, here.

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