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Regulating Broadband Video Distribution

Posted on March 11, 2011
Adam VanWagner, Fordham University Law School, is publishing Seeking a Clearer Picture: Assessing the Appropriate Regulatory Framework for Broadband Video Distribution in the Fordham Law Review. Here is the abstract. This Note examines the appropriate regulatory framework for the distribution...

British Copyright In Broadcasts

Posted on March 10, 2011
Enrico Bonadio, City University London, has published The High Court Rules on 'Communication to the Public' and Infringement of Copyright in Broadcasts in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, February 23, 2011. Here is the abstract. The High...

ISPs and User Copyright Infringement

Posted on March 10, 2011
Amanda Harmon Cooley, South Texas College of Law, is publishing A Contractual Deterrence Strategy for User-Generated Copyright Infringement and Subsequent Service Provider Litigation in the SMU Law Review. Here is the abstract. This article explores the ways in which Internet...

Katie Holmes Files Defamation Suit Against Star Magazine

Posted on March 09, 2011
Katie Holmes has filed a defamation lawsuit against Star Magazine over its recent cover, implying that she is some sort of drug addict. The "addiction" to which the cover refers is to Scientologists' use of the "e-meter," a device that...

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Vivian Schiller Out At NPR

Posted on March 09, 2011
NPR's CEO Vivian Schiller has stepped down after the non-profit's fundraising executive Ron Schiller (no relation) was surreptitiously taped calling members of the Tea Party "racist" and generally denigrating them. Ms. Schiller was at the center of a controversy last...

Charlie Sheen Update

Posted on March 09, 2011
Chuck Lorre has hired his own legal team, including Howard Weitzman to address the ongoing Charlie Sheenery. Meanwhile, Mr. Sheen, during his laterst appearance on Sheen's Korner, berated Mr. Lorre, Mr. Moonves, and Warner Brothers Television Group President Bruce Rosenblum...

Mexican Documentary's Showings Stalled Temporarily

Posted on March 07, 2011
A Mexican judge has told the makers of the film "Presumed Guilty" ( original Spanish title Presunto Culpable) that they must suspend showings of the documentary which portrays the trial of Jos� Antonio Zu�iga temporarily. A witness who testified at...

Courtney Love Will Pay Dawn Simorangkir $430,000 Plus Interest To Settle Lawsuit

Posted on March 07, 2011
Courtney Love is settling that Twitter defamation lawsuit. She will pay designer Dawn Simorangkir $430,000 plus interest over those tweets she made in 2009 that Ms. Simorangkir says defamed her. While Ms. Simorangkir's lawyer maintained that the settlement shows that...

Social Media and the Protection of Free Speech

Posted on March 07, 2011
From the New York Times: a discussion the progress of the Global Network Initiative, and of whether and how social media protects free speech, particularly in countries that don't have a tradition of free speech, or in areas undergoing periods...

For Your Careful Consideration: Charlie Sheen Fired From "Two and a Half Men"

Posted on March 07, 2011
From The Hollywood Reporter: Warner Brothers has dropped the other shoe. "After careful consideration, Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen?s services on "Two and a Half Men" effective immediately."

Bam! Pow! Blocking Copyright Claims In Derivative Works Based On Comic Books

Posted on March 07, 2011
Vincent James Scipior, University of Wisconsin Law School, is publishing Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends: Trapped in the Tangled Web of the Termination Provisions, in the Wisconsin Law Review (forthcoming). Here is the abstract. With great power there must also...

Delaware Supreme Court Finds Telling Movie Audiences To Be Quiet While They Watch the Movie Is Ok (If You Tell Them All To Shhhh! At the Same Time)

Posted on March 06, 2011
The Delaware Supreme Court has affirmed an appellate court ruling that the Delaware Human Relations Commission's finding that a theater owner's request that members of an audience adhere to the theater's policy of maintaining quiet during the showing of the...

Warner Brothers Hires High Powered Law Firm In Response To Sheen Lawsuit Threat

Posted on March 06, 2011
Via THR, Esq.: Warner Brothers has hired Munger Tolles & Olson lawyers Ron Olsen and John Spiegel to handle the escalating Charlie Sheen situation. However, THR Esq. blogger Matthew Belloni points out that Mr. Sheen's WB's contract contains an arbitration...

Juror Use of the Internet

Posted on March 03, 2011
Gareth S. Lacy, University of Washington School of Law, is publishing Untangling the Web: How Courts Should Respond to Juries Using the Internet for Research in Reynolds Courts & Media Law Journal (forthcoming). Here is the abstract. During trials jurors...

Website Liability For User Generated Content

Posted on March 03, 2011
Catherine R. Gellis has published The State of the Law Regarding Website Owner Liability for User Generated Content at 66 The Business Lawyer 243 (November 2010). Here is the abstract. Download the article from SSRN at the link.

Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Westboro Baptist Church, 8-1

Posted on March 02, 2011
The Supreme Court has ruled, 8-1, that the First Amendment protects speakers on matters of public concern, even at funerals. It also held that in the case of Snyder v. Phelps, Mr. Snyder cannot recover for the tort of intrusion...

Pakistani Minister Assassinated

Posted on March 02, 2011
Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's only Cabinet Minister of the Christian faith, has been assassinated, apparently for backing reform of the country's blasphemy laws. Mr. Bhatti was shot as he was being driven to work this morning. He died at the hospital....

Court of Protection Hearings Opened To Media

Posted on March 02, 2011
A British judge has ruled that the media may attend a hearing in which the father of Steven Neary argues for the right to care for his 20-year-old autistic son. The judge noted that many of the details surrounding the...

One Former UK Official's Take On the Influence and Impact of Pornography

Posted on March 02, 2011
Former UK Home Secretary Jacquie Smith on porn.

ISPs and Hate Speech

Posted on March 02, 2011
Danielle Keats Citron, Univesrsity of Maryland School of Law, and Helen L. Norton, University of Colorado School of Law, have published Intermediaries and Hate Speech: Fostering Digital Citizenship for Our Information Age in volume 91 of the Boston University Law...

The Argument For No Privacy In Public

Posted on March 02, 2011
Heidi Reamer Anderson, Florida Coastal School of Law, has published The Mythical Right to Obscurity: A Pragmatic Defense of No Privacy in Public. Here is the abstract. In several states, citizens who videotaped police misconduct and distributed the videos via...

Les Moonves On "Two and a Half Men," Charlie Sheen

Posted on March 01, 2011
The President of CBS, Les Moonves, has finally addressed the Charlie Sheen brouhaha. Said Mr. Moonves today in San Francisco at a conference, "I wish he would have worked this hard to promote himself for an Emmy," and that although...

Christopher Dodd To Become New MPAA Chief

Posted on March 01, 2011
Former Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd will be the new head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), succeeding Dan Glickman. Interim head Robert Pisano is likely to remain with the organization.

Cue Charlie Sheen

Posted on March 01, 2011
We just can't seem to get enough of the Charlie Sheen meltdown and its legal and economic consequences. Really, it's become a cottage industry in less than a week. Recall that Mr. Sheen originally said Mr. Lorre's success was all...

Designer John Galliano Fired Over Anti-Semitic Remarks

Posted on March 01, 2011
Designer John Galliano, already in trouble over an assault in Paris earlier this week, has now been fired from his post at Christian Dior over remarks he made to some young women outside a Paris cafe in December. The exchange,...

Assange Files To Trademark His Name

Posted on March 01, 2011
Julian Assange has filed to trademark his name for purposes of "public speaking" and "entertainment," according to reports. Meanwhile, he is awaiting the outcome of an appeal of a judge's decision that he be extradited to Sweden to face sexual...

German Defense Minister Resigns; LSE Investigates Allegations Of Plagiarism By Saif Ghaddafi

Posted on March 01, 2011
Germany's defense minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, has resigned after holding out for several weeks amid allegations that he plagiarized his doctoral dissertation. Meanwhile, the London School of Economics is looking into charges that Saif Ghaddafi plagiarized his doctoral dissertation.

Government Websites and the First Amendment

Posted on February 28, 2011
David S. Ardia, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, is publishing Government Speech and Online Forums: First Amendment Limitations on Moderating Public Discourse on Government Websites in the Brigham Young University Law Review. Here is the abstract...

The Cost of Canceling "Two and a Half Men": One and an Eighth Seasons?

Posted on February 28, 2011
The New York Times analyzes the economic impact of Charlie Sheen's outburst and the CBS-Warner Brothers decision to cancel the rest of this year's Two and a Half Men season.

RPost Files Suit In Swiss Court Against SwissPost

Posted on February 28, 2011
RPost, a U.S. provider of email services, is suing SwissPost in a Zurich court for patent infringement. This is RPost's second lawsuit against the Swiss company, which is publicly owned; last year's lawsuit requested a U.S. court to grant an...

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