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The Myth of American Copyright Militancy

Posted on April 05, 2010
John Tehranian, Chapman University, School of Law, has published The Emperor Has No Copyright: Registration, Cultural Hierarchy and the Myth of American Copyright Militancy, at 24 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1397 (2009). Here is the abstract. This Article subverts the...

Ethics and the First Amendment In Middle East Reporting

Posted on April 05, 2010
Kenneth Lasson, University of Baltimore School of Law, has published "Betraying Truth: Ethics Abuse in Middle East Reporting," at 1 Journal for the Study of Antisemitism 139 (2009). Here is the abstract. This article presents a brief overview of press...

Censoring Black Supremacy

Posted on April 05, 2010
Barak Y. Orbach, University of Arizona, has published, "The Johnson-Jeffries Fight and Censorship of Black Supremacy," as Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 10-09. Here is the abstract. The United States has gone through many waves of movie censorship, but...

Freeing Lawyers' Speech

Posted on April 05, 2010
Renee Newman Knake, Michigan State University College of Law, has published "Contemplating Free Speech and Congressional Efforts to Constrain Legal Advice," forthcoming in the Rutgers Law Record. Here is the abstract. This essay addresses an important intersection between attorney regulation...

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Erykah Badu Cited For Public Nudity

Posted on April 03, 2010
According to CNN, Dallas police say that a witness has come forward to lodge a complaint concerning singer Erykah Badu's nude appearance and video in Dealey Plaza March 17th. Based on that complaint, law enforcement says "After much discussion, it...

Second Circuit Upholds FCC In Cablevision "Must Carry" Case

Posted on April 03, 2010
The Second Circuit has denied a cable systems operator's challenge to an FCC order that it carry a station pursuant to the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act. The cable systems operator alleged that the order violated the operator's...

Simon Singh Wins Libel Appeal In BCA Case

Posted on April 01, 2010
Simon Singh has prevailed in an appeal in the libel case brought against him by the British Chiropractic Association, although his defense has cost him an alarming two hundred thousand pounds. In a unanimous decision, a three judge appellate court...

FCC To Hold Future of Media Workshop April 30

Posted on March 31, 2010
The FCC announces a second "Future of Media" workshop on April 30.

Allocating Broadband in the Twenty-First Century

Posted on March 31, 2010
Michael Santorelli and Charles Davidson, New York Law School, have published "Seizing the Mobile Moment: Spectrum Allocation Policy for the Wireless Broadband Century." Here is the abstract. Broadband is widely recognized as a key platform for enabling and supporting job...

Four Labour MPs Vote Against Libel Law Reforms

Posted on March 31, 2010
The British government's attempt to reform the libel law regime by capping lawyer fees has hit a roadblock. Four Labour Members of Parliament refused to toe the party line and vote for Justice Minister Jack Straw's proposal in committee. The...

Search Engines and Privacy

Posted on March 31, 2010
Federica Casarosa, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, has published "Privacy in Search Engines: Negotiating Control." Here is the abstract. Internet and generally modern communication technologies have radically modified current society, bringing in new risks for citizens? privacy...

New Coalition Wants Stronger Privacy Laws

Posted on March 31, 2010
From the New York Times, news of the formation of the Digital Due Process coalition, made up of the ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, Google, Microsoft, AT&T, and other interest groups and companies, whose...

State Department On Australian Plan To Limit Access To Internet

Posted on March 29, 2010
The U.S. reacts to the Australian government's plan to restrict access to certain Internet websites. Read more here.

Russian Prosecutor General's Office Bans "Mein Kampf"

Posted on March 29, 2010
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has banned Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's 1925 political tract, labelling it extremist, according to the New York Times. The book has been available for sale in Russia, but increasing attacks on non-Russians have caused the...

Fair Use In The Netherlands

Posted on March 29, 2010
MArtin SEnftleben, VU University Amsterdam has published "Fair Use in The Netherlands - A Renaissance?" at 33 Tijdschrift voor auteurs, media en informatierecht (AMI) 1 (2009). Here is the abstract. In the course of implementing the EC Copyright Directive, the...

Blocking NLRA Protected Activities In the Workplace Via Email

Posted on March 29, 2010
Christine Neylon O'Brien, Boston College Carroll School of Management, has published "Employees on Guard: Employer Policies Restrict NLRA-Protected Concerted Activities on E-Mail," at 88 Oregon Law Review 195 (2009). Here is the abstract. A newspaper company creates a workplace communications...

Advertising Standards Authority Rules Home Office Ad Misleading

Posted on March 26, 2010
The UK Advertising Standards Authority has told the Home Office that its new advertisement, "The Policing Pledge," stating that law enforcement spends 80% of its time walking the beat is misleading. The ad was part of a Labour Government election...

Judge: Mediation Best Course In Dispute Over SeaWorld Video

Posted on March 26, 2010
A mediator will attempt to decide what access will be granted to video showing the events leading to SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau's unfortunate death last month, Florida judge Lawrence Kirkwood has ruled. Judge Kirkwood issued a temporary restraining order last...

IP Law and Indigenous Peoples' Property Rights

Posted on March 26, 2010
Danielle M. Conway, University of Hawaii at Manoa Law School, has published "Indigenizing Intellectual Property Law: Customary Law, Legal Pluralism, and the Protection of Indigenous Peoples? Rights, Identity, and Resources," in Texas Wesleyan Law Review, volume 15 (2009)...

Protecting the TV Format

Posted on March 26, 2010
Neta-li E. Gottlieb has published "Free to Air? Legal Protection for TV Program Formats," as University of Chicago Law & Economics Olin Working Paper No. 513. Here is the abstract. Television is only as strong as its programming. The use...

When the Infringement Notices Stop Coming

Posted on March 25, 2010
Annemarie Bridy, University of Idaho College of Law, has published "Graduated Response and the Turn to Private Ordering in Online Copyright Enforcement." Here is the abstract. At the end of 2008, the music industry ended its five-year campaign of litigation...

A Response To the FCC's Notice of Inquiry On Empowering Parents and Protecting Children In an Evolving Media Landscape

Posted on March 25, 2010
John G. Palfrey Jr., Harvard Law School, Urs Gasser, Harvard University Berkman Center, and Danah Boyd, Microsoft Research, Harvard University Berkman Center, and University of California, Berkeley, School of Information, have published "Response to FCC Notice of Inquiry 09-94: Empowering...

Shepard Fairey's Legal Problems

Posted on March 25, 2010
Sonia Katyal and Eduardo Pe�alver discuss the case of artist Shepard Fairey and the Barack Obama "Hope" poster here in an excerpt from their new book Property Outlaws; How Squatters, Pirates and Protesters Improve the Law of Ownership (Yale University...

More On the Google Books Settlement

Posted on March 25, 2010
James Grimmelmann, New York Law School, has published The Amended Google Books Settlement is Still Exclusive, in the CPI Antitrust Journal (January 2010). Here is the abstract. This brief essay argues that the proposed settlement in the Google Books case,...

Regulation and Online Harassment

Posted on March 25, 2010
Eric Goldman, Santa Clara University School of Law, has published Unregulating Online Harassment at 57 Denver University Law Review Online 59 (2010). Here is the abstract. This short essay was written as part of the ?Cyber Civil Rights: New Challenges...

Oprah Winfrey Settles Defamation Suit Against Her

Posted on March 24, 2010
Oprah Winfrey and the former headmistress of the South African girls' school she founded have agreed to an out of court settlement, and the defamation suit Nomvuyo Mzamane filed against Ms. Winfrey will not go to trial as scheduled. Ms....

Ethics and IP Law

Posted on March 24, 2010
Derek E. Bambauer, Brooklyn Law School, and Oliver Day have published The Hacker's Aegis, as Brooklyn Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 184. Here is the abstract. Intellectual property law stifles critical research on software security vulnerabilities, placing computer users...

EU Law, Romanian Law, and Privacy

Posted on March 24, 2010
Cristian Ganj has published The Lives of Other Judges: Effects of the Romanian Data Retention Judgment. Here is the abstract. The Constitutional Court of Romania has recently published a decision that found the implementing law of Directive 2006/24/CE unconstitutional...

Protecting Children's Privacy Online

Posted on March 24, 2010
Federica Casarosa, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, has published Child Privacy Protection Online: How to Improve it Through Code and Self-Regulatory Tools. Here is the abstract. The accomplishment of an adequate level of privacy is one of the main...

Roger Miller's Widow Wins Fight Over 1964 Copyrighted Songs

Posted on March 23, 2010
The late composer and singer Roger Miller's wife Mary has won a fight over the copyrights to a number of famous songs, including "King of the Road," "You Can't Roller Skate In a Buffalo Herd," and "Dang Me." Sony/ATV Music...

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