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Regulation 2.0

Posted on April 19, 2010
Pierre Trudel, Centre de Recherche en droit Public, has published "Web 2.0 Regulation: A Risk Management Process," at 7 Canadian Journal of Law & Technology 243 (2010). Here is the abstract. The user?s central role is often presented as a...

Publisher Destroys Copies Of New Cookbook Over Misprint

Posted on April 19, 2010
The Australian division of Penguin is destroying thousands of copies of a new cookbook because of a misprint on one page. The Pasta Bible listed "salt and freshly ground black people" as two of the ingredients in a recipe for...

Actor Injured By Prop During Rehearsals For "Antony and Cleopatra"

Posted on April 19, 2010
The BBC reports that actor Darrell D'Silva, starring in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "Antony and Cleopatra", sustained injuries during reheasals when a prop went off. He underwent surgery and is back performing the lead role. Read more here.

Reprivileging the Fair Use Defense For Scholars

Posted on April 16, 2010
Randall P. Bezanson and Joseph Miller, University of Iowa College of Law, have published Scholarship and Fair Use, in volume 33 of the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts (2010). Here is the abstract. Scholarship has long enjoyed a...

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Relationships Between the Media and Academe

Posted on April 16, 2010
Graeme Orr, University of Queensland School of Law, has published Academics and the Media in Australia, at 52 Australian Universities' Review 23 (2010). Here is the abstract. Little has been written about the relationship between academia and the media...

Benjamin Hooks, Civil Rights Leader, Former FCC Commissioner, Dies

Posted on April 16, 2010
Civil rights activist and lawyer Benjamin Hooks has died. Dr. Hooks was 85. He served in the U.S. Army, led the NAACP, served as a judge, and became the first African American to be named an FCC Commissioner. FCC Chair...

FCC Schedules Open Meeting For April 21st

Posted on April 15, 2010
The Federal Communications Commission is holding an Open Commission meeting April 21st in Washington D.C.

British Chiropractic Association Abandons Case Against Simon Singh

Posted on April 15, 2010
In a surprise move, the British Chiropractic Association has abandoned its defamation case against science journalist Dr. Simon Singh. The action comes after Dr. Singh won a significant ruling in an appellate court that would have allowed him the defense...

Fiji Considers New Media Law

Posted on April 14, 2010
Text of a new draft media law from the Fiji Islands here. Amnesty International notes that the proposed statute makes it possible for the government to imprison those to criticize it.

Judges Toss Charges Against Basque Newspaper Publishers

Posted on April 14, 2010
From the Guardian: a Spanish court has acquitted several newspaper executives accused of fomenting anti-government agitation as part of the Basque group ETA. A Spanish magistrate had closed down the newspaper Egunkaria ("The Daily"), which had been in circulation for...

Digital Public Media and the Broadband Project

Posted on April 13, 2010
Ellen P. Goodman, Rutgers University Law School, and Anne Chen, University of Pennsylvania and the Yale University Information Society Project, have published Digital Public Media Networks to Advance Broadband and Enrich Connected Communities. Here is the abstract...

Semiotics and Hate Speech

Posted on April 13, 2010
Uladzislau Belavusau, European University Institute and University of California, Berkeley, has published Judicial Epistemology of Free Speech Through Ancient Lenses, in volume 23 of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (2010). Here is the abstract...

Gatekeepers, Copyright Law and Freedom of Speech

Posted on April 13, 2010
Hiram Melendez-Juarbe, University of Puerto Rico Law School and New York University School of Law, has published Preliminary Remarks on Personal Use and Freedom of Speech. Here is the abstract. This discussion-paper is part of a larger project in which...

FCC Chair Genachowski's Remarks at the NAB Convention, Las Vegas

Posted on April 13, 2010
Read the text here.

Info On the Media Bureau's April 20th Workshop

Posted on April 13, 2010
The FCC's Media Bureau is holding a workshop in Tampa, Florida, on April 20. Details here.

Happy birthday, Thomas Jefferson. And the Jefferson Muzzle Awards Go To...

Posted on April 13, 2010
U.S. Representative Alan Grayson (D-Fl.), the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, Chicago Alderman James A. Balcer, the Oklahoma Tax Commission...read on. The Muzzle awards are awarded (according to the website) "as a means to draw national attention to abridgments of...

Newspaper Blogs and Anonymity

Posted on April 12, 2010
Some newspapers are considering how to handle anonymous posts to their blogs. Here's more from the New York Times.

The Fourth Amendment and Computer Warrants

Posted on April 12, 2010
Orin S. Kerr, George Washington University Law School, has published Ex Ante Regulation of Computer Search and Seizure. It is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review. Here is the abstract. In the last decade, magistrate judges around the United States...

Balancing Rights in the Cyber Harassment Debate

Posted on April 12, 2010
Mary Anne Franks, University of Chicago Law School, has published The Banality of Cyber Discrimination, or, the Eternal Recurrence of September, at 87 Denver Law Review Online 5 (2010). Here is the abstract. In the debate over how to regulate...

Government Speech

Posted on April 09, 2010
Helen L. Norton, University of Colorado School of Law, and Danielle Keats Citron, University of Maryland School of Law, have published Government Speech 2.0, in volume 88 of the Denver University Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract. New expressive...

Producer Released, But Must Remain In Mexico Pending Investigation

Posted on April 09, 2010
Mexican law enforcement officials have released producer Bruce Beresford-Redman after questioning him in his wife's death but have told him not to leave the country pending the completion of their investigation. Mrs. Beresford-Redman was found dead yesterday in Cancun, where...

The Broadband Question

Posted on April 08, 2010
From the New York Times, an editorial on broadband company promises, the FCC's attempts to sort out what service the average wired consumer actually receives, and what solutions might work.

That Tiger Ad

Posted on April 08, 2010
Where did the comments from that Nike Tiger ad come from? As ABC's Russell Goldman explains, they're "ripped" from a 2004 documentary. Here's more. Here's commentary from the Christian Science Monitor.

Re-Examining Prosser

Posted on April 08, 2010
Neil M. Richards, Washington University Law School, and Daniel J. Solove, George Washington Law School, have published Prosser's Privacy Law: A Mixed Legacy , in volume 98 of the California Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract. This article examines...

Public Domain and Canadian IP Law

Posted on April 08, 2010
Carys J. Craig, York University, Osgoode Hall Law School, has published "The Canadian Public Domain: What, Where, and to What End?" at 7 Canadian Journal of Law & Technology 221 (2010). Here is the abstract. This essay explores the important...

The Value of Hash

Posted on April 08, 2010
Stephen Hoffman, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) School of Law, has published "An Illustration of Hashing and its Effect on Illegal File Content in the Digital Age," in volume 22 of the Intellectual Property and Technology Law Journal (April 2010)...

Speech Torts

Posted on April 08, 2010
Deana Pollard-Sacks, Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law, has published "Speech Torts." Here is the abstract. Tort liability for speech raises important concerns about federalism, self-government, and autonomy. The Supreme Court has resolved the free speech-tort law conflict...

US Privacy Law In Theory and In Practice

Posted on April 07, 2010
Kenneth A. Bamberger, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and Deirdre K. Mulligan, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, have published "Privacy on the Books and on the Ground," in volume 63 of the Stanford Law Review (2010)...

DC Circuit Rules That FCC Cannot Set Net Neutrality Rules

Posted on April 06, 2010
The D.C. Court of Appeals has ruled that the FCC has no authority to order broadband providers to provide "net neutrality" to users. The FCC had made the net neutrality rules a major part of its current platform, believing that...

Desperate Lawsuit?: Nicollette Sheridan Files Suit Over Termination From "Desperate Housewives"

Posted on April 06, 2010
Actress Nicollette Sheridan has filed a lawsuit against Marc Cherry, producer of "Desperate Housewives," ABC and various other parties, claiming that Mr. Cherry struck her, and then wrote her out of the show after she complained about the assault. Read...

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