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FTC To Google: Develop Procedures To Protect Consumer Privacy As You Continue Street View Program

Posted on October 28, 2010
The Federal Trade Commission has wrapped up an investigation of the Google Street View program in the United States, but investigations go on in other countries. The agency did ask the company to develop procedures to protect consumer privacy because...

"The Hobbit" To Stay In New Zealand

Posted on October 27, 2010
From the Hollywood Reporter: Peter Jackson has made the decision to continue filming "The Hobbit" in New Zealand. The government is anteing up some $15 million (U.S.) in rebates which may increase, depending on the film's success, and will introduce....

The Effects of Increasing Regulation In the Computer and Communications Section

Posted on October 27, 2010
Chris Reed, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, has published How to Make Bad Law: Lessons from the Computing and Communications Sector as Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 40/2010. Here is the abstract....

"The Hobbit" Still In Negotations

Posted on October 26, 2010
Director Peter Jackson and the studios backing the film "The Hobbit" want tax breaks and more concessions from the government of New Zealand before they will promise not to move the project to another location. More here from the Associated...

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"Howling Loudly Until the American People Hear Our Cries"

Posted on October 26, 2010
In the July/August issue of Humanities, a look back at the career of crusading editor John Mitchell, Jr., of the Richmond Planet. Says author Donna M. Lucey in part, The young crusader fought against the lynching of both African Americans...

Selling America Anything It Needs, and a Good Deal It Doesn't

Posted on October 26, 2010
From Reason.com: a review of Jeffrey L. Cruikshank and Arthur W. Schultz's The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing (But True!) Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century, published by Harvard Business Press.

Canadian Regulator Issues Smackdown To Radio Host Over Justin Bieber Comments

Posted on October 25, 2010
The Canadian Radio Standards Council, Ontario Regional Panel, has ruled that an October 20, 2009, broadcast of the Dean Blundell Show on CRNY-FM violated the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Equitable Portrayal Code for comments made about Justin Bieber...

Networks Get Tough On Free Content

Posted on October 25, 2010
Networks are making it tougher for consumers to get their content free via the web and other non-traditional outlets. NBC, Fox, and CBS are just a few of the content providers blocking access to popular shows in an effort to...

Supreme Court of Canada Widens Journalist Privilege

Posted on October 25, 2010
In Globe and Mail v. Attorney General of Canada, the Supreme Court has held that the laws of Quebec can support a reporter's source privilege or a journalist's right to protect his sources in civil cases. The Court established a...

How the PTC Lost Ground

Posted on October 25, 2010
The Parents Television Council, long the terrier that bedeviled both the FCC and a good many advertisers and networks, has lost a lot of its oompf. Here's an article from the New York Times that analyzes the reasons it seems...

Transformative Use and Derivative Works In Property and Copyright

Posted on October 25, 2010
Christopher M. Newman, George Mason University School of Law, has published Transformation in Property and Copyright as George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 10-51. Here is the abstract. Copyright requires us to distinguish between two different ways of...

Minnesota Court of Appeals Reverses Conviction Based On First Amendment Challenge

Posted on October 22, 2010
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reversed the conviction of a Minnesota resident based on a First Amendment challenge to a statute that forbids the knowing communication of false information about police misconduct to investigators (Minnesota Statute 609...

Copying To the Left Of Him, Copying To the Right of Him...

Posted on October 22, 2010
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on an author who thinks copying is a Good Thing. Interesting idea, especially the way Marcus Boon interprets copying, but IP lawyers might be taken aback.

Bob Guccione Dies

Posted on October 21, 2010
Bob Guccione, the founder of Penthouse Magazine, has died at the age of 79. In its heyday, the magazine was known for its explicit photographs of beautiful women and its even more explicit (and some would say unbelievable) letters to...

NPR Terminates Juan Williams' Employement After His Remarks On Bill O'Reilly's Show

Posted on October 21, 2010
National Public Radio has fired commentator and writer Juan Williams, presumably for remarks he made on Fox host Bill O'Reilly's show concerning his (Mr. Williams') nervousness when he sees persons in Muslim dress on an airplane. Said Mr. Williams, "I...

Court Hears Churchill Appeal

Posted on October 21, 2010
An appellate court is hearing Ward Churchill's arguments to be reinstated at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Mr. Churchill won a jury verdict, but not reinstatement, in an ugly fight over his 2007 termination after the University investigated comments he...

University of Virginia Report On Climate at the Virginia Quarterly Review Released

Posted on October 21, 2010
A report by the University of Virgina on management at the Virginia Quarterly Review concludes that while the editor at that journal did not exactly bully his underlings, his management style was somewhat, ah, unrestrained. The VQR's managing editor committed...

University of San Diego Institute Assists Educators With Tricky Questions Concerning Student Use of Electronic Devices

Posted on October 21, 2010
Check out the University of San Diego's Electronic Communications Devices Project (ECDP), which helps educators and administrators figure out the limits of policing student activity on the web and in the use of such devices. More here from the Chronicle...

"The Hobbit" May Be Leaving New Zealand

Posted on October 21, 2010
"The Hobbit" may be leaving New Zealand for another venue, in spite of word that SAG, AFTRA and other unions have abandoned their boycott of the picture. Now union members are attempting to convince the director/producer to stay in the...

Reactions To Juan Williams' Firing Causes Comment All Over

Posted on October 21, 2010
Simon Owens of TNW (The Next Web) Media discusses differing reactions to the firing of Juan Williams. Meanwhile, comments pour in to NPR as Mr. Williams clarifies his remarks.

Controversy Over Channel 4's Airing of Prince Harry Kidnap Film

Posted on October 20, 2010
Calls are mounting that urge Britain's Channel 4 to abandon its plans to air a docudrama centered on the Taliban's fictionalized possible kidnapping of Prince Harry, the younger son of the Prince of Wales. The Air Chief Marshal has weighed...

Nigerian Approaches To Regulating Cyber Crime and Attacks on Privacy

Posted on October 20, 2010
F. Franklin Akinsuyi has published Nigerian Cyber Crime and Privacy Legislation, Time for Review. Here is the abstract. Nigeria has been in the throes of implementing technology law and computer crime legislation for the best part of half a decade....

Best Practices In Fair Use and Copyright Law

Posted on October 20, 2010
Jennifer E. Rothman, Loyola of Los Angeles Law School, has published Best Intentions: Reconsidering the Best Practices Statements in the Context of Fair Use and Copyright Law. It is forthcoming in the Journal of the Copyright Society. Here is the...

To Catch a Predator, Auf Deutsch

Posted on October 19, 2010
Tatort Internet (Crime Scene Internet), the German version of "To Catch a Predator," seems to be a controversial as its U.S. counterpart. Its host, Stephanie von Guttenberg, a descendant of Otto von Bismarck and the wife of a German minister,...

Delaware Senatorial Candidate Makes Her Mark On British Journalism

Posted on October 19, 2010
Delaware Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell's question about the location of the principle of separation of church and state has made it across the pond and onto the front page of the Guardian. Notes reporter Richard Adams, "The US constitution has...

Government Speech and the Publicly Employed Attorney

Posted on October 18, 2010
Margaret Tarkington, Brigham Young University Law School, has published Government Speech and the Publicly Employed Attorney (forthcoming in Brigham Young University Law Review). Here is the abstract. In Garcetti v. Ceballos, the U.S. Supreme Court incorporated the ?government speech? doctrine...

Protecting Attorney Speech Under the First Amendment

Posted on October 18, 2010
Margaret Tarkington, Brigham Young University Law School, has published A First Amendment Theory for Protecting Attorney Speech. Here is the abstract. In June 2010, the United States Supreme Court held that Congress could constitutionally prohibit attorneys from providing legal assistance...

University of Kentucky Agrees To Allow Student Paper Distribution at Home Games

Posted on October 18, 2010
The University of Kentucky has reached a deal with its student newspaper with regard to newspaper distribution on stadium grounds. The Kentucky Kernel, the student paper, wanted to distribute its issues in the parking lot on home game days. The...

"The Hobbit" Greenlighted

Posted on October 18, 2010
Even though labor problems continue with regard to "The Hobbit," it and a companion film have been greenlighted by New Line and Warner Brothers. More here.

Fourth Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition Invites Registrations

Posted on October 18, 2010
From Professor Louise Scott, The Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford, Registrations are now being invited for the 4th Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition. The moot court competition, organised...

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