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Book Reviews, Academic Debate and Criminal Libel in France

Posted on August 19, 2010
Kate Sutherland, York University Osgoode Hall Law School, has published Book Reviews, the Common Law Tort of Defamation, and the Suppression of Scholarly Debate, at 11 German Law School 656-670 (2010). Here is the abstract. Professor Joseph Weiler will soon...

Dr. Laura Ends Talk Radio Run

Posted on August 18, 2010
Herr repeated use of the "N" word on her radio show earlier this month is pushing "Dr. Laura" (Laura Schlessinger) to end her talk radio show at the end of the year. She has been a radio host for three...

AP Iz Not LOLing At Cheezburgers

Posted on August 17, 2010
The AP is out of talks with Pet Holdings--you know, the folks that bring you I Can Has Cheezburger and other noble time wasting amusements (although Time Magazine thinks there's meaning in the LOLCATS). According to the LA Times Technology...

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Defamation On Facebook

Posted on August 17, 2010
Julie Hilden explains why a New York court dismissed a Facebook defamation lawsuit.

Marvin Ammori's Guide To Understanding Network Neutrality Discussions at the FCC

Posted on August 17, 2010
Via the Huffington Post, Marvin Ammori on network neutrality discussions at the FCC.

Erykah Badu Fined, Put on Probation For Disrobing During Dallas Video Shoot

Posted on August 17, 2010
From the AP: Singer Erykah Badu has paid a $500 fine and will serve 6 months probation for disorderly conduct (disrobing in public) at Dealey Plaza last March during a music video shoot. Dealey Plaza is the site of President...

Web Journalists and Bias

Posted on August 16, 2010
Gregory Ferenstein discusses whether Internet journalists are fair to their subjects, here, for CNN.

Speech and Campaign Financing

Posted on August 16, 2010
David Kairys, Temple University School of Law, has published The Contradictory Messages of Speech Law: Eloquence and Annoyance. Here is the abstract. Constitutional invalidation of laws limiting campaign financing in the 1980s faced two main obstacles in well established First...

The Economic Impact of Google Books On Copyright Holders

Posted on August 16, 2010
Hannibal Travis, Florida International University College of Law, has published Estimating the Economic Impact of Mass Digitization Projects on Copyright Holders: Evidence from the Google Book Search Litigation, in volume 57 of the Journal of the Copyright Society of the...

Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal Now Seeking Submissions

Posted on August 16, 2010
From the Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal The Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal (VaSE) is currently seeking articles for publication in its Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 issues. If you have a completed article or are currently working...

Chinese Government Delays Writer's Trial

Posted on August 15, 2010
The National Campaign reports that the Chinese government is putting off the trial of writer Tragyal; the writer has criticized the government's policies toward Tibet. Via Jurist.

Pat Tillman Documentary Will Keep "R" Rating Because of Language

Posted on August 13, 2010
The MPAA has refused to re-rate The Tillman Story, a documentary about the late Pat Tillman, from R to PG-13. The producers had wanted the more child-friendly rating to make the film accessible to young people but the MPAA kept...

NBC's "Mad Men" Parody Premature

Posted on August 13, 2010
From the Hollywood Reporter: NBC, which is hosting the Emmys, yanked its "Mad Men" parodies featuring Jimmy Fallon and Christina Hendricks after other networks cried foul. NBC had prepared three clips but only one aired; the network also showed the...

Did Dell Hide Docs?

Posted on August 13, 2010
From the NY Times here.

Copyrighting Fashion?

Posted on August 13, 2010
Two law professors assess Senator Schumer's attempt to protect the rights of fashion designers via a revision of the copyright law in the op-ed pages of the New York Times here.

An Analysis of the Comcast v. FCC Decision

Posted on August 12, 2010
Marcelo Thompson, University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, Law and Technology Centre, has published The Sheriff of 'Not-the-Internet': Reflections on Comcast v. FCC, in volume 1 of Communications Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract. In Comcast Corporation v...

Copying the Comics

Posted on August 11, 2010
Joshua L. Simmons, Columbia Law School, has published Catwoman or the Kingpin: Potential Reasons Comic Book Publishers Do Not Enforce Their Copyrights Against Comic Book Infringers, at 33 Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 267 (2010). Here is the...

Un-Expendable

Posted on August 11, 2010
The unions that represent California's state employees have taken their protests over unpaid leave, which Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered because of the state's fiscal problems, to the theaters showing The Expendables, which premieres around the state and the country this...

Dutch Policy Towards Cybercrime

Posted on August 11, 2010
Bert-Jaap Koops, Tilburg University Faculty of Law, has published Cybercrime Legislation in the Netherlands. Here is the abstract. This report, written for the 18th International Congress on Comparative Law of July 2010, comprehensively discusses cybercrime legislation and case-law in the...

Protecting Children On the 'Net By Making It Safer

Posted on August 11, 2010
Cheryl B. Preston, Brigham Young University Law School, has published All Knowledge is Not Equal: Facilitating Children's Access to Knowledge by Making the Internet Safer, at 13 International Journal of Communications Law and Policy 115 (2009). Here is the abstract...

Threats To Free Access To Information

Posted on August 11, 2010
Harsh Gagrani, National Law Institute, Bhopal, has published Axing the Access - Threats to Free Access to Information Especially in Digital Media. It is forthcoming in IPost. Here is the abstract. The dawn of digital technologies in the latter half...

Protecting Identity In Cyberspace

Posted on August 11, 2010
Parikshit Kshirsagar, Bond University School of Law and Monash University Faculty of Law, has published The Problem of Identity Protection in Cyberspace and Some Suggestions. Here is the abstract. Increasingly, cybercrime and identity theft are becoming synonymous...

The Death of the Publication of Private Facts Tort

Posted on August 11, 2010
Samantha Barbas has published The Death of the Public Disclosure Tort: A Historical Perspective at 22 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 171. Here is the abstract. In 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, in their famous Harvard Law...

First Circuit Upholds Maine "Data Mining" Law

Posted on August 10, 2010
The First Circuit has upheld a state law prohibiting prescription information "data mining," the second time it has ruled on such laws. In IMS Health Inc. v. Mills, the Court rejected constitutional challenges based in the First Amendment, finding that...

How Local News Reports Civil Litigation

Posted on August 10, 2010
Herbert M. Kritzer, University of Minnesota Law School, and Robert E. Dreschsel, University of Wisconsin, Madison, School of Journalism & Mass Communication, have published A Portrait of Local News Reporting of Civil Litigation as Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No...

Smart Phones Versus Government Censors

Posted on August 10, 2010
From the Red Tape Chronicles, a story about the threat that Blackberrys (or should that be Blackberries) and other Smart Phones pose to governments that try to control information flow to their citizens.

And You Thought Pop Culture Wasn't Important...

Posted on August 09, 2010
Walter Dellinger on Mad Men (the show, that is).

Deciding "Snyder v. Phelps"

Posted on August 09, 2010
Christina E. Wells, University of Missouri School of Law, has published Regulating Offensiveness: Snyder v. Phelps, Emotion, and the First Amendment, as University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-14. Here is the abstract...

The Changing Image of Regulation

Posted on August 09, 2010
Barak Y. Orbach, University of Arizona, has published The New Regulatory Era - An Introduction, at 51 Arizona Law Review 559 (2009). Here is the abstract. For many decades the word ?regulation? has been a bogeyman concept evoking images of...

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