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CBS, WB Halt Two and Half Men Season Prematurely, Won't Pay Sheen For Cancelled Episodes

Posted on February 25, 2011
Things have boiled over once again at Two and a Half Men. Charlie Sheen called in to the Alex Jones radio show and launched personal attacks against TAHM creator Chuck Lorre, alleging that Mr. Lorre owes his success to Mr....

Australian Appellate Court Rules ISP Not Responsible For Users' Copyright Infringement

Posted on February 25, 2011
An Australian appellate court has upheld a lower court ruling that an ISP is not liable for copyright infringement by rightsholders alleging that an ISP failed to control its users' uploading and sharing of copyrighted works. However, the studios can...

Federal Judge Rules For Defendant In Hendrix Right of Publicity Lawsuit

Posted on February 24, 2011
Here's a link to the recently decided Jimi Hendrix estate right of publicity case, already the subject of much discussion in the trades, in the practitioner literature, and in the blogosphere. The judge found for the defendant, Hendrixlicensing.com, ruling that...

Judge Orders Assange Extradited To Sweden

Posted on February 24, 2011
A British judge has ruled that Wikileaks' Julian Assange must face sexual assault charges in Sweden. The judge found no procedural problems with the arrest warrant issued in Sweden against Mr. Assange. Mr. Assange has seven days to appeal the...

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Network Head Says "Damages," Other Serials Attract Video Pirates

Posted on February 24, 2011
FX's John Landgraf says shows like "Damages" are too much of a temptation for pirates, thus too difficult for the studio to "monetize." He told an audience of cable execs yesterday, "?You?d be crazy to make [a show like that],"...

Western Journalists Begin Reporting From Libya

Posted on February 23, 2011
The Tripoli Post reports that media have started to cross the border into the country to report on what looks more and more like a revolution there. More coverage from NPR. A view from Arab News concerning the unrest in...

Tweet Softly--You Don't Know Who's Listening

Posted on February 23, 2011
Billie Hara at ProfHacker discusses the possible hazards of social media.

Couple May Sue Over "The Soup" Remarks, AP Article

Posted on February 22, 2011
Cara and Gibson Reynolds, a couple featured in this AP article about genetic screening, say they may sue Comcast Entertainment and Joel McHale, the host of The Soup, as well as the AP, for the article's slant and for remarks...

Germany's Defense Minister Under Fire For Plagiarism

Posted on February 21, 2011
A German MP is under fire for having incorporated nearly all of an article written for him by a civil servant, Dr. Ulrich Tammler, into his doctoral dissertation. Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester, Freiherr von und...

Human Rights and Its Representation In the Media

Posted on February 21, 2011
Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, has published The Reality and Hyperreality of Human Rights: Public Consciousness and the Mass Media, in Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights: The End of an Era? (R. Dickenson et....

Anti-Pornography Campaigns and Civil Rights

Posted on February 18, 2011
Anders Walker, Saint Louis University School of Law, has published A Horrible Fascination: Sex, Segregation, & the Lost Politics of Obscenity as Saint Louis University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-06. Here is the abstract. Taking Virginia editor James Jackson...

FCC Announces Forum On Nationwide Public Safety Mobile Broadband Network

Posted on February 18, 2011
From an FCC announcement: On Friday, March 4, 2011, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., the Federal Communications Commission?s (FCC?s) Public Safety Homeland Security Bureau?s (PSHSB) Emergency Response Interoperability Center (ERIC) will host a forum to garner input on the...

FCC Asks Verizon To Investigate Failure To Link Up 911 During Recent Snow Emergency

Posted on February 18, 2011
From an FCC news release: Washington, D.C. ? Jamie Barnett, Rear Admiral (ret.) and Chief of the FCC?s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, this week requested that Verizon provide the Commission with a full assessment of what caused the...

The Analogy Between Wikileaks and the New York Times of the Pentagon Papers Case

Posted on February 17, 2011
Derek E. Bambauer, Brooklyn Law School, is publishing Consider the Censor in a forthcoming issue of the Wake Forest Journal of Law & Public Policy. Here is the abstract. WikiLeaks is frequently celebrated as the whistleblowing heir of the Pentagon...

Information and Democracy in India

Posted on February 16, 2011
Sharmendra Chaudhry, National Law School of India University, has published Right to Information in India. Here is the abstract. Right to Information is the bulwark of democratic government. This right is essential for the proper functioning of the democratic process...

The French Internet/Creation Statute

Posted on February 16, 2011
Nicolas Lucchi, Universita di Ferrar, Facolta di giuisprudenza, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, NYU School of Law, Hauser Global Program, University of Texas at Austin School of Law, and Stanford Law School, Center for Internet &...

The FCC's Proposed New Nondiscrimination Rule

Posted on February 16, 2011
Nicholas Brambe, Information Society Project at Yale Law School, has published Ill Telecommunications: How Internet Infrastructure Providers Lose First Amendment Protection as Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, vol. 17, no. 67 (2010)...

Italian Premier Faces Trial Over Sexual Conduct

Posted on February 15, 2011
From MSNBC.com, word that Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who owns media outlets in the country, will face charges for paying for sex with an underaged girl and then trying to cover up the act. This trial will be the first...

Roller Derby Names and Norms

Posted on February 15, 2011
David Fagundes, Southwestern Law School, has published Talk Derby to Me: Emergent Intellectual Property Norms Governing Roller Derby Pseudonyms. Here is the abstract. Recent work has analyzed the increasing tendency of some social and professional groups use endemic social norms...

The Media and Climate Change

Posted on February 14, 2011
Tommaso Pavone, University of Michigan, Ann Arobr, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, has published Hot Off the Press: Climate Change and the Mass Media. Here is the abstract. The relationship between the mass media and climate change governance...

Dutch MP Can Challenge Charges In New Trial

Posted on February 14, 2011
Dutch MP Geert Wilders may challenge the charges of "anti-Islamic speech" pending against him, says a panel of judges. According to one judge, if his challenge succeeds, "the case will be closed". An earlier trial was aborted last fall. More...

The PRC, Copyright Law, and Freedom of Speech

Posted on February 12, 2011
Stephen McIntyre has published The Yang Obeys, But the Yin Ignores: Copyright Law and Speech Suppression in the People?s Republic of China. Here is the abstract. Copyright law can serve to either promote or restrict free speech: while copyright preserves...

The "Hot News" Doctrine Re-Examined

Posted on February 11, 2011
Shyamkrishna Balganesh, University of Pennsylvania Law School, has published 'Hot News': The Enduring Myth of Property in News, in volume 111 of the Columbia Law Review. Here is the abstract. The ?hot news? doctrine refers to a cause of action...

Assange Lawyers Put On Aggressive Defense

Posted on February 11, 2011
Update on the Julian Assange extradition case here (from the Guardian) here (Daily Mail).

Enlightenment Authors and Copyright

Posted on February 10, 2011
Maria Chiara Pievatolo, University of Pisa, Department of Political Science, has published Back to the Future: Authors, Publishers and Ideas in a Copy-Friendly Environment. Here is the abstract. How could scholars survive in a copy-friendly environment jeopardizing the established system...

Copyright, Downloading, and the Future of the Music Industry

Posted on February 10, 2011
Brian R. Day, George Washington University Law School, has published In Defense of Copyright: Creativity, Record Labels, and the Future of Music, in volume 21 of the Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law (2011). Here is the abstract....

Mexican Radio Journalist Fired For Story About President

Posted on February 10, 2011
MVS Communications in Mexico City has fired one of its popular on air host/reporters for a story in which she alleged that President Felipe Calderon has a drinking problem. Carmen Aristegui was terminated this week after reporting the story. She...

A History of Reversion Rights

Posted on February 09, 2011
Lionel A. F. Bently, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, and Jane C. Ginsburg, Columbia Law School, have published 'The Sole Right . . . Shall Return to the Authors': Anglo-American Authors' Reversion Rights from the Statute of Anne to...

Climatologist Sues Over Article

Posted on February 09, 2011
The New York Times reports that a climate change scientist has filed a lawsuit against a climate change skeptic, alleging defamation. Dr. Andrew Weaver says that Dr. Tim Ball libeled him in an article Dr. Ball published at the Canada...

Photographs and Privacy

Posted on February 09, 2011
David Rolph, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, is publishing Looking Again at Photographs and Privacy: Theoretical Perspectives on Law?s Treatment of Photographs as Invasions of Privacy in Law, Culture, and Visual Studies (A. Wagner and R. Sherwin eds...

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