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Is Her Lawsuit [In] Vain?

Posted on June 01, 2010
Carly Simon is back in court with her suit against Starbuck's, having amended her complaint alleging that the coffee dispensing chain had an obligation to disclose that it planned to go out of the CD selling business just before her...

Analyzing the Italian Case Against Google

Posted on June 01, 2010
Giovanni Sartor and Mario Viola de Azevedo Cunha, European University Institute, have published The Italian Google-Case: Privacy, Freedom of Speech and Responsibility of Providers for User-Generated Contents. Here is the abstract. In a recent decision of the Tribunal of Milan...

Charlie Sheen Will Probably Plead To Misdemeanor

Posted on June 01, 2010
According to some sources, Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Men) will get thirty days in jail in return for a guilty plea to a misdemeanor, and will serve his time while his hit show is on hiatus. The charge...

Ninth Circuit Rules On Challenges To L.A.'s Billboard Regulation Scheme

Posted on May 31, 2010
The Ninth Circuit has reversed in part a lower court ruling in World Wide Rush v. City of Los Angeles, which challenges the city's billboard regulation scheme as an unconstitutional limit on commercial speech. The City regulates signs, including billboards,...

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Gallup New Mexico Mayor Sues Newspaper Publisher For Defamation

Posted on May 28, 2010
Gallup, New Mexico, mayor Harry Mendoza is suing Bob Zollinger, publisher of the Gallup Independent, over articles published in the paper last summer which link Mr. Mendoza to a gang rape from the late 1940s. Mr. Mendoza says he was...

Winner and Loser States When TV and Film Crews Come To Call

Posted on May 27, 2010
From the Hollywood Reporter, a round-up of the current success of all those film and tv state tax credits and initiatives. Texas claims three new television shows, Illinois one. Michigan might get a new show. But New York, long a...

Are Photographers Being Allowed To Document the Deep Water Horizon Spill?

Posted on May 27, 2010
Newsweek investigates whether BP and the government are blocking the media's attempts to photograph the Gulf oil spill mess.

Bill Shock: It's Out There

Posted on May 26, 2010
The FCC has released the findings of a new survey that indicates that nearly twenty percent of Americans have had "bill shock"; that is, they've discovered their monthly cell phone bills are much higher than expected. In addition, the survey...

Protecting Anonymity and Association in Cyberspace

Posted on May 26, 2010
Minjeong Kim, Department of Journalism and Technical Communication, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University, has published The Right to Anonymous Association in Cyberspace: US Legal Protection for Anonymity in Name, in Face, and in Action, in volume 7 of...

Iranians Release Famed Director

Posted on May 25, 2010
The BBC reports that the Iranian government has released director Jafar Panahi ("The White Meadows," "Border Cafe") on bail. He had been detained after he expressed support for anti-government politicians in last year's elections.

Request for Public Comment On "Bill Shock" Initiative

Posted on May 25, 2010
From the FCC Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau: On May 20, 2010, the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) released a Public Notice (Notice) seeking to gather information on the feasibility of instituting usage alerts...

Regrets...He's Had a Few

Posted on May 24, 2010
From the New York Times, a discussion of the RIAA lawsuit against Mark Gorton and LimeWire.

Jurors, Twitter, and Fair Trials in UK Law

Posted on May 24, 2010
Michael C. Bromby, Department of Law, Glasgow Caledonian University, has published The Temptation to Tweet - Jurors? Activities Outside the Trial, part of the Jury Research Symposium 2010, Institute for Advanced Studies, Glasgow. Here is the abstract...

Balancing Free Speech and National Security In European Law

Posted on May 24, 2010
Shawn Marie Boyne, Indiana University School of Law (Indianapolis), has published Free Speech, Terrorism, and European Security: Defining and Defending the Political Community. Here is the abstract. In this paper I examine the impact that the struggle against terror has...

Stieg Larsson's Estate

Posted on May 23, 2010
The New York Times has a feature story on the battle over the late novelist Stieg Larsson's ("The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo") estate. The writer died intestate, and did not marry his companion, Eva Gabrielsson. Swedish law does not...

News of the World Alleges Sarah Ferguson Offered To Sell Introduction To Duke of York To Undercover Reporter

Posted on May 23, 2010
From the BBC: News of the World alleges it has filmed Sarah Ferguson, the former wife of the Duke of York, offering to introduce a reporter posing as a businessman to her ex-husband, for payments totaling up to five hundred...

Photographer Charged Over Pictures Taken In Cemetery

Posted on May 21, 2010
Tokyo prosecutors have charged Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama with public indecency for taking photographs of a nude woman in a cemetery in the city. Such a charge carries a penalty of prison or a fine. Read more here in an...

Prophet Cartoon Causes Outrage In South Africa

Posted on May 21, 2010
A Zapiro cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed published in the Mail & Guardian newspaper has caused yet more outrage among Muslims, this time in South Africa. A judge refused a request to enjoin (interdict) publication of the cartoon, just before...

Content Partners Sues Paramount

Posted on May 21, 2010
Marc Cuban's Content Partners is suing Paramount Pictures for millions over what it alleges is breach of contract and fraud stemming from unpaid profits on various films such as "The Truman Show" and "A Civil Action," according to The Hollywood...

New York's Next "Law & Order": "The Good Wife"

Posted on May 21, 2010
As "Law & Order" exits the stage, another tv series takes up the slack for actors needing a gig: the popular CBS series, "The Good Wife." It provides many roles for stage folk needing meaty (or not so meaty) roles....

Differential Pricing, Internet Innovation, and Network Neutrality

Posted on May 20, 2010
Christopher S. Yoo, University of Pennsylvania Law School and Annenberg School for Communication, has published Network Neutrality or Internet Innovation?, in 33 Regulation 22 (Spring 2010). Here is the abstract. Over the past two decades, the Internet has undergone an...

Analyzing the Defense of Copyright Misuse

Posted on May 20, 2010
David S. Olson, Boston College Law School, has published First Amendment Based Copyright Misuse, in volume 52 of the William & Mary Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract. We are at a crossroads with respect to the under-developed equitable...

The Plight of Russia's Journalists

Posted on May 20, 2010
From the New York Times, an editorial on why the Russian government needs to step up to protect its press.

Computer Network Attacks In U. S. Law and Doctrine

Posted on May 19, 2010
Paul Walker, U. S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps, has published Rethinking Computer Network 'Attack': Implications for Law and U.S. Doctrine, forthcoming in the Journal of National Security Law & Policy. Here is the abstract. Because much of current legal...

Economics and Net Neutrality

Posted on May 19, 2010
Jerry Brito, et al, have published Net Neutrality Regulation: The Economic Evidence. Here is the abstract. In the authors' shared opinion, the economic evidence does not support the regulations proposed in the Commission?s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Regarding Preserving the...

CPB Announces Grant To Expand PBS Series "Frontline"

Posted on May 19, 2010
From the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) today announced a new grant to expand PBS? award-winning investigative documentary series FRONTLINE to a year-round broadcast footprint. FRONTLINE will be celebrating its 29th season this fall on...

Louisiana Politician Drops Defamation Lawsuit Against Anonymous Posters

Posted on May 18, 2010
Steve Theriot, the Jefferson Parish (Louisiana) president who filed a lawsuit against anonymous commenters whom he said had defamed him on the www.nola.com website, has dropped the suit, according to a story on nola.com. Mr. Theriot said he "suffered embarrasment"...

BBC Apologizes For Radio Host's Extremely Bad Joke About the Queen

Posted on May 18, 2010
The BBC has apologized for a radio host's joke, which the network says was "inappropriate." Host Danny Kelly announced, untruthfully, that Queen Elizabeth II had died, and played the national anthem as he said so. The BBC has removed Mr....

Reconciling Copyright Law and the First Amendment

Posted on May 18, 2010
Joseph P. Bauer, Notre Dame Law School, has published "Copyright and the First Amendment: Comrades, Combatants or Uneasy Allies?" forthcoming in the Washington and Lee Law Review. Here is the abstract. The copyright regime and the First Amendment seek to...

Some New Publications By Rob Frieden

Posted on May 18, 2010
Rob Frieden (Pennsylvania State University) has published a new book, Winning the Silicon Sweepstakes: Can the United States Compete in Global Telecommunications? with Yale University Press. Here's a description of the book. In this timely book, Rob Frieden points out...

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