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Fox, Time Warner Reach Agreement On Fees

Posted on January 01, 2010
From the Hollywood Reporter: Fox and Time Warner Cable have reached an agreement that keeps Fox stations available via the cable operator, reportedly at less than Fox's demanded $1 per subscriber per month but at more than the 20 to...

TSA Serves Subpoenas On Bloggers

Posted on December 31, 2009
The Transportation Security Administration is trying to find out who leaked information about new screening procedures to bloggers Chris Elliott and Steve Frischling after the two wrote about a new security memo which the TSA says was not supposed to...

Patrick Stewart Gets a Knighthood

Posted on December 31, 2009
We're going to have to call Captain Picard Sir Jean-Luc from now on. Queen Elizabeth II has slated Patrick Stewart for a knighthood in her New Years honours list. Also getting the royal nod: Nicholas Hytner, the fellow who brought...

Conde Nast Files John Doe Infringement Lawsuit

Posted on December 30, 2009
From the ABA Journal and Online Media Daily, news that Conde Nast has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against John Does who got hold of unpublished material and posted it on the FashionZag blog. Conde Nast succeeded in getting the...

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Suing John Doe

Posted on December 30, 2009
From the January issue of the ABA Journal, Brendan L. Smith's discussion of Internet defamation suits.

Percy Sutton, Noted Attorney, Passes From the Scene

Posted on December 30, 2009
The gifted lawyer Percy Sutton passed away last week. The New York Times has a thoughtful obituary, and FCC Commissioner Michael Copps pays tribute with this statement. With the passing of Percy E. Sutton, New York City has lost a...

FCC Chair's Prepared Remarks: Broadband Field Hearing On Small Business, December 21st, 2009

Posted on December 30, 2009
From the FCC Prepared Remarks of Chairman Julius Genachowski Federal Communications Commission Broadband Field Hearing on Small Business Chicago, Illinois December 21, 2009 The Federal Communications Commission is in Chicago today as part of a public conversation over the shape...

Julie Hilden On Student Freedom of Speech

Posted on December 30, 2009
Julie Hilden critiques a school freedom of speech case from the Fifth Circuit here.

Lord Chancellor Further Explains Plans For Review of Britain's Libel Laws

Posted on December 29, 2009
According to the Media Guardian, Jack Straw's previously announced review of Britain's libel laws will "consider whether the law of libel, including the law relating to libel tourism, in England and Wales needs reform, and if so to make recommendations...

All the News, All the Time

Posted on December 29, 2009
From MSNBC.com: how the famous may unwittingly make themselves targets for paparazzi and criminals via the Internet and Twitter.

The Charlie Sheen Case

Posted on December 29, 2009
Actor Charlie Sheen ("Two and a Half Men") spent part of Christmas Day in jail in Aspen, Colorado, after his wife Brooke made a 911 call alleging that he had threatened her with a knife. Mr. Sheen later made bail...

Defense Rests In Italian Google Privacy Trial

Posted on December 28, 2009
From the New York Times: news from the Italian privacy trial of Google executives.

ASA Nixes British Airways Ad Featuring Canton Fair

Posted on December 28, 2009
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a British Airways ad showing scenes of the Canton Fair because British Airways does not fly to Guangzhou, China, where the Fair takes place. From the ruling: The ASA noted that connections could be...

ASA Finds BT Vision Ad On Movies Misleading

Posted on December 28, 2009
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad by BT Vision seeming to claim to air movies before BSkyB makes them available. ASA received complaints from BSkyB and from viewers, reviewed the ad, and found the ad misleading. From the...

Court Nixes Singer Boy George's Appearance On "Celebrity Big Brother"

Posted on December 28, 2009
Singer Boy George will not be allowed to appear on Celebrity Big Brother next month, since he is still serving part of a 15-month prison sentence for false imprisonment. In rejecting his request, the judge said, "I consider that right-thinking...

Verizon Doesn't Get Christmas Wish For a TRO

Posted on December 27, 2009
Verizon asked a federal judge for a restraining order against a former employee who now works for rival Allied Wireless Communication Corporation, citing trade secret concerns, but Judge James M. Moody noted that some of the information the company cited...

Jose Feliciano Holiday Song Parody Removed From Website

Posted on December 27, 2009
Two radio producers who created a parody of Jose Feliciano's famous Christmas song "Feliz Navidad" have apologized to the singer after Mr. Feliciano registered his complaints about the take-off. Matt Fox and A. J. Rice created "The Alien Immigrant Christmas...

Happy Holidays

Posted on December 17, 2009
Media Law Prof will be away until December 27. Have a safe and pleasant holiday season.

BBC Apologizes To Listeners For F-Word From "Rage Against the Machine"

Posted on December 17, 2009
The BBC has apologized to listeners over foul language that its listeners heard on-the-air from band Rage Against the Machine, even though network officials had gone over on air protocols with members of the band beforehand. When singer Zack de...

Australia Adopts Filtering To Block Obscene Internet Sites

Posted on December 16, 2009
The AP reports that Australia is adopting an aggressive system to block websites linked to obscenity and crime, even though there is evidence that such a system may not work and is likely to restrict personal freedom. The system may...

Judge Dismisses Charges Against Broadcom Execs

Posted on December 16, 2009
U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney has dismissed charges of backdating stock options against former Broadcom executives Henry Nicholas III and William Ruehle, saying that the government pressured witnesses to testify against the defendants. The prosecution said it was disappointed in...

European Court of Human Rights Says Media Can Protect Anonymous Sources

Posted on December 16, 2009
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favor of the media on the issue of the protection of journalists' sources. The Financial Times, the Independent, the Guardian, the Times, and Reuters had appealed a British court ruling that...

Barry George Wins Apology, Damages From News Group Newspapers

Posted on December 16, 2009
Barry George, released from prison in 2008 after being cleared in a retrial of the murder of BBC newscaster Jill Dando, has received legal fees and undisclosed payments as well as an apology from News Group Newspapers, which publishes the...

Paramount Now Selling Movie Clips

Posted on December 15, 2009
From the New York Times: Paramount Pictures is now selling clips from its films online, via Paramountclips.com. This service follows on the announcement that Warner Brothers is making its archive available on demand: downloads $14.95, DVDs $19.95. All this to...

FCC Announces Panelists For December 15 Workshop On Speech, Democracy and the Open Internet

Posted on December 14, 2009
From the FCC: PANELISTS ANNOUNCED FOR DEC. 15 WORKSHOP ON Speech, Democracy and the Open Internet WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission will hold a staff workshop on speech and democratic engagement as part of the Commissions? open Internet proceeding...

The History of Copyright Registration

Posted on December 14, 2009
Zvi S. Rosen has published "The Unwanted Copyrights: Higgins, Bleistein, and Commercial Prints & Labels 1874-1940." Here is the abstract. This article traces the development of copyright law in commercial prints and labels, looking at the history of the 1874...

The History and Evolution of "John Doe" Internet Defamation Lawsuits

Posted on December 14, 2009
Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, University of Florida College of Law, has published "Anonymity in Cyberspace: What Can We Learn from John Doe?" in volume 50 of the Boston College Law Review (2009). Here is the abstract. This Article examines the evolution...

Tiger Woods Get Injunction In English Court Against Publication of Nude Photos (If They Exist)

Posted on December 11, 2009
Golf legend Tiger Woods has gotten an injunction from an English court prohibiting publication of nude photographs in the media, assuming such photographs exist. His lawyers are not admitting that such pictures do exist, nor under what circumstances they might...

Judge Tells Jon Gosselin To Stop Making Media Appearances, Making Comments About "Jon & Kate Plus 8"

Posted on December 11, 2009
Granting the preliminary injunction that TLC requested in the matter, a judge has told Jon Gosselin to cease making media appearances unless they are unpaid and must stop making public comments about the show without permission. Mr. Gosselin was not....

FCC Appoints First "Scholar in Residence," Stuart Benjamin

Posted on December 11, 2009
The Federal Communications Commission has appointed its first Scholar in Residence, Stuart Benjamin, of Duke University Law School. Professor Benjamin is co-author of Telecommunications Law and Policy (2d ed., 2006) and many law review articles and has also taught at...

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