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Newly Updated Charts On Law Review Submission Information
Posted on March 10, 2010Allen Rostron and Nancy Levin, University of Missouri (Kansas City) School of Law, Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals. Here is the abstract. This document contains information about submitting articles to law reviews and journals, including the...
The History of Copyright Law In British Palestine
Posted on March 10, 2010Michael Birnhack, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, has published "Hebrew Authors and English Copyright Law in Mandate Palestine," in volume 12 of Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2011). Here is the abstract. This article (re)tells the as yet-untold story...
Freedom of Expression and Copyright
Posted on March 10, 2010Xinglong Cao, A University School of Law, has published "Expression in Copyright, and its Reflections in Patent and 'Freedom of Expression'." Here is the abstract. This article carefully peruses the pivotal theories in copyright, patent and "freedom of expression," including...
Robert Halderman May Plead Guilty In Letterman Case
Posted on March 09, 2010The Associated Press reports that Robert Halderman, the CBS News employee accused of trying to extort money from David Letterman over Mr. Letterman's relationships with female staff, is likely to enter a guilty plea today. As a result, he may...
Research On the Effects Of Using/Watching Porn
Posted on March 09, 2010From The Scientist.com, an article by Milton Diamond assesses research that suggests that watching or using pornography might make men more, not less, tolerant of women, and individuals less, not more, sexually repressed.
Data Protection Company Settles With FTC; Will Pay $12 Million
Posted on March 09, 2010Lifelock has settled a deceptive advertising lawsuit with the FTC. The federal agency charged that Lifelock, which claims that it can secure consumers' private data, failed to provide "far less protection" than it promised its clients. The company says it...
The Kouwe Affair: A One-Off, Or Symptomatic Of a System-Wide Problem
Posted on March 08, 2010Clark Hoyt discusses the resignation of former New York Times business reporter Zachary Kouwe. Once again, the Kouwe affair embroiled the Times in questions about its ability to police its own. Says Mr. Hoyt, Though Kouwe was gone the next...
No Laughing Matter
Posted on March 05, 2010A Louisiana judge granted a request for a temporary restraining order against a satirical website and told the website owner to pull the story (text here) after the owner refused a local wildlife preserve's requests to remove the tale. Judge...
Bad Spiderman! Bad, Bad Spiderman!
Posted on March 05, 2010Say it ain't so, Peter Parker. The famous photog who works by day for the NYC mayor and by night for the rest of us gets the boot for enhancing a pic. So it's off to the unemployment line. Even...
Digital Media Authorship
Posted on March 03, 2010Alina Ng, Mississippi College School of Law, is publishing "When Users are Authors: Authorship in the Age of Digital Media," in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law. Here is the abstract. This Article explores what authorship and creative...
Soldier Sues Over "Hurt Locker" Days Before Oscar Telecast
Posted on March 03, 2010Master Sergeant Jeffrey Sarver is suing writer/producer Mark Boal, director Kathryn Bigelow, Summit Entertainment, and others over the film "The Hurt Locker," alleging that Mr. Boal used Sergeant Sarver's story as the basis for the protagonist's story in the film...
Information as IP
Posted on March 03, 2010Zohar Efroni, Stanford Center for Internet and Society, has published "Information as IP Subject Matter." Here is the abstract. This paper is a draft chapter from a forthcoming book on copyright law in the digital environment. This chapter (Draft Chapter...
British Journalist Still In Jail In Gaza
Posted on March 02, 2010From the BBC: British filmmaker Paul Martin is still in jail. A court has ordered him detained for two weeks; he was detained two weeks ago without charges. Mr. Martin's lawyer says he still is uncertain what charges are pending...
Senate Holds Hearings On Censorship Of Internet
Posted on March 02, 2010Link to Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on International Internet Censorship.
Letters, They Get Letters...FCC Gets Complaints From Viewers
Posted on March 01, 2010MSNBC.com reports that viewers complain to the FCC about a lot of things, including Rachel Maddow's use of the word "teabagging," and Jack Cafferty. But apparently, they also complain about programming they see on Fox, including a scene on the...
Third Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Lower Court Google "Street View" Decision on Several Counts, But Reverses On Trespass
Posted on March 01, 2010In Boring v. Google, the plaintiffs asserted claims against Google as a result of the company's "Street View" program for "invasion of privacy, trespass, injunctive relief, negligence, and conversion" and sought both compensatory and punitive damages and attorneys' fees...
Columbia Journalism Review Compares Print, Online Publishing and Editing In Major New Study
Posted on March 01, 2010The Columbia Journalism Review did a massive study to look at editing standards for online magazines, which Victor Navasky, editor of the CJR, says are variable. ?It?s like the Wild West out there. Each magazine is making it up as...
More On British Media Ethics
Posted on March 01, 2010Brian Cathcart on the behavior of the UK press and the MP report. Here's more reaction to the MP report from politicians and lawyers who practice defamation law.
Rethinking the Use of Self-Help In the Internet Age
Posted on March 01, 2010Catherine M. Sharkey, New York University School of Law, has published "Trespass Torts and Self-Help for an Electronic Age," 45 Tulsa Law Review 101 (2010. Here is the abstract. Liability for trespass to chattels (or personal property) ensnares one who...
An Analysis of the Impact of the Swedish Pirate Bay Decision and Analogous Situations
Posted on March 01, 2010Michal Czerniawski, University of Warsaw, has published "Responsibility of Bittorrent Search Engines for Copyright Infringements." Here is the abstract. With the music industry pursuing copyright infringement claims against various parties, the issue addressed in this paper is the responsibility of...
Danish Newspaper, Original Publisher of Prophet Mohammed Cartoons, Issues Apology
Posted on February 27, 2010The Danish newspaper that originally published the cartoons which set off a firestorm of anger in some Muslim countries has apologized "to anyone who was offended by our decision to reprint the cartoon drawing." But the newspaper Politiken still asserts...
New PETA Ad Campaign On Hold
Posted on February 26, 2010Tiger Woods apparently thinks PETA's ad urging pet owners to spay and neuter their "little tigers" is no laughing matter. Well, PETA thinks pet population control is a serious issue, too--that's the point of the ad. In any case, the...
Tennis Pro Sues Paper For Derogatory Statements About His Playing
Posted on February 25, 2010Robert Dee is suing the Daily Telegraph for labelling him the "World's Worst" tennis player. Mr. Dee says the newspaper's statements suggest "that he unreasonably and unrealistically persists in a career as a professional ?tennis player which is an expensive...
Hill Hearing On Comcast/NBC Universal Merger Today
Posted on February 25, 2010On CSPAN now: the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the proposed Comcast/NBC Universal merger.
Tis the Season: The Supreme Court and Baseball
Posted on February 25, 2010Ross E. Davies and Craig D. Rust, both of George Mason University School of Law, have published "Supreme Court Sluggers: Behind the Numbers," at 13 Green Bag 2d 213 (Winter 2010). Here's the abstract. Issued last fall, the Chief Justice...
The Impact Of the Italian Google Case
Posted on February 25, 2010More coverage from the New York Times on the Italian case involving Google executives sentenced over that video showing the bullying of a minor.
Scholar Sues In French Courts Over Book Review
Posted on February 25, 2010The Times Higher Education reports that a dispute between two scholars will proceed to trial after one has refused to remove a negative review of the other's book. Dr. Joseph Weiler published a review of Dr. Karin Calvo-Goller's work The...
Google Execs Guilty In Italian Video Case
Posted on February 24, 2010An Italian court has convicted three Google executives of violating the Italian law of privacy and sentenced them to prison terms (suspended). It acquitted them and a fourth Google executive of violating defamation law. At issue was Google's failure to...
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