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Gender, Copyright and Filk Literature

Posted on May 14, 2009
Melissa L. Tatum, University of Arizona College of Law, Robert E. Spoo, University of Tulsa College of Law, and Benjamin Pope, University of Arizona, have published Does Gender Influence Attitudes toward Copyright in the Filk Community? as Arizona Legal Studies...

Judge Rules R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Ad Violated Agreement

Posted on May 14, 2009
A judge has ruled that Reynolds' Tobacco's Rolling Stone ads violated an agreement with 46 state attorneys general because it contained "cartoon imagery." He ordered the company to prepare an anti-smoking ad aimed at young people that would also appear...

Criminal Libel Cases In Colorado

Posted on May 14, 2009
J. P. Weichel is apparently still awaiting trial for posts he made about his girlfriend on Craigslist. The local prosecutor decided to charge him under the state's criminal libel statute, which could land him in jail if he's convicted. Mr....

More From Julie Hilden on the Prosecution of "Sexting" Cases

Posted on May 13, 2009
Julie Hilden discusses why "sexting" is not necessarily equivalent to "contributing to the delinquency of a minor" if the "sexter" is a minor.

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Another Look at the EU Directive For Data Protection and Privacy

Posted on May 13, 2009
Karen McCullagh, Salford Law School, has published Data Sensitivity: Proposals for Resolving the Conundrum at 2 Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology 190. Here is the abstract. The EU Directive 95/46/EC specifically demarcates categories of sensitive data meriting special...

Talking Privacy: What We Talk About When We Talk About Google

Posted on May 13, 2009
Chris Jay Hoofnagle, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, has published Beyond Google and Evil: How Policy Makers, Journalists and Consumers Should Talk Differently About Google and Privacy in 14 First Monday...

Wikihoaxer Creates Wikiflap

Posted on May 12, 2009
An Irish college student has proven what a lot of researchers have feared for a long time: people copy from Wikipedia without verifying the credibility of what they copy. Unfortunately, some of those copiers are journalists. Shane Fitzgerald put a...

Miss California/USA Wins Out; Moving On

Posted on May 12, 2009
Donald Trump has ruled that Carrie Prejean, Miss California/USA, will continue serving, even though she posed for those infamous photos, and even though the Miss California/USA pageant officials seemed annoyed with her for failing to disclose the existence of the...

Bob Herbert On Race Conscious Coverage Of Murder Victims

Posted on May 12, 2009
Bob Herbert writes about the uneven media coverage given to murder victims, even today. When he was a young reporter, he notes, the tilt toward stories about white victims was obvious. [T]he press is still very color conscious in the...

This Time It's Print, and This Time It's Personal

Posted on May 12, 2009
The New York Times notes the increase of users posting copyrighted material on the Web. Many authors are understandably annoyed. The Times quotes Harlan Ellison, who has been fighting this battle for some time, as saying, "?I don?t ask to...

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Posted on May 11, 2009
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Iranian-American Journalist Reported Released

Posted on May 11, 2009
The BBC reports that Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who was sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage, has been released from an Iranian prison. After a hearing yesterday, the Iranian appellate court reduced the charge against her and suspended...

Chinese Director Takes New Film To Cannes, Risks Trouble With Government

Posted on May 11, 2009
Chinese director Lou Ye will premiere his film Spring Fever at the Cannes Film Festival this year even though in 2006 the PRC prohibited him from making movies for five years. His film Summer Palace, about the Tiananmen Square uprising...

Frank Rich on the Media Funding Crisis

Posted on May 10, 2009
In today's New York Times, Frank Rich poses the elephant-in-the-room question: "Does [the public] want to pony up for news, whatever the media that prevail?" No matter who's left standing after newspapers merge, or their buildings close up and the...

Prosecutors Reach Plea Deal in Murder Trial of Man Suspected of Ordering Killing of Oakland Newspaper Editor

Posted on May 10, 2009
Prosecutors have reached a plea agreement with 21-year-old Devaughndre Broussard in the death of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey, murdered in 2007. Mr. Broussand has agreed plead guilty and to testify against Yusuf Bey IV, owner of a popular local...

Imprisoned Journalist Will Have Appeal Heard Tomorrow

Posted on May 09, 2009
CNN reports that the father of Roxana Saberi says she will have her appeal heard tomorrow. THe told the press the Iranian Supreme Court will meet to consider her 8-year prison sentence, imposed after a one day closed day trial....

Actress Kate Winslet Sues Daily Mail For Libel

Posted on May 08, 2009
Next up: Winslet v. the Daily Mail. Ms. Winslet is suing for defamation over the Daily Mail's contention that she lied about her fitness regime. The offending article carries the headline: "Should Kate Winslet win an Oscar for the world's...

Submit Your Choice To Succeed Retiring Justice David Souter, Courtesy of The New York Times

Posted on May 08, 2009
In light of Justice David H. Souter's plans to retire from the Supreme Court in June, NYTimes.com is taking its readers? pulse with an interactive feature to see who they would pick as a replacement, if they were president. The...

Is the Miss California/USA Photo Flap Nearly Over?

Posted on May 08, 2009
CNN reports that Miss California/USA pageant officials have called a press conference for Monday to announce whether they will "dethrone" current title holder Carrie Prejean over photos that have surfaced showing her semi-nude at a lingerie shoot. Miss Prejean maintains...

White House Military Office Director Resigns Over NY Photo Op Flyover

Posted on May 08, 2009
Louis Caldera, the White House Military Office Director, has delivered his resignation to President Obama in the wake of that April flyover photo op that we now learn cost more that $350,000, scared the beejeebers out of New Yorkers who...

LSU Press May Close Due To State's Financial Crisis

Posted on May 07, 2009
Proposed budget cuts at Louisiana State University have made the national news: the Louisiana State University Press may close its doors, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education news blog. Earlier this morning I heard an interview on this topic...

A Look at Statutory Damages in Copyright Law

Posted on May 07, 2009
Pamela Samuelson and Tara Wheatland, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, have published Statutory Damages in Copyright Law: A Remedy in Need of Reform. Here is the abstract. U.S. copyright law gives successful plaintiffs who promptly registered their works...

Fordham Law Professor Creates Intriguing Privacy Law Internet Assignment Involving Justice Scalia

Posted on May 07, 2009
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia seems miffed at a Fordham Law School professor who asked his privacy law class to see what it could find out about the justice online. So reports the Wired Campus blog. According to a related Concurring...

Elsevier Reveals It Published More Than One "Fake" Journal

Posted on May 07, 2009
As it turns out, the big publishing house Elsevier didn't just put out one "fake" journal, it apparently put out seven during the early 2000s, according to this Scientist story by Bob Grant. Elsevier now says that it is conducting...

Michael Savage Wants His Name Removed From "No Entry" List

Posted on May 07, 2009
Radio host Michael Savage now says he wants UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to apologize to him for including him on a list of unwanted visitors to the country. "I'm a patriotic American, and if that's a crime in England,...

Miss California/USA Debate Heats Up Over Use of Pageant Footage, Photos

Posted on May 06, 2009
Speculation is increasing that Miss California/USA Carrie Prejean could lose her title after the leak of those semi-nude photos, not necessarily because of the pix, but because she failed to disclose the existence of the photos to pageant officials and...

The Webby Awards For Law Winners

Posted on May 06, 2009
So who won the Webby Awards for Law this year? Here's the list. Webby Award Winner: Womenslaw.org People's Voice Winner: Getlegal.org The other nominees Immigration Advocates Network Jurist Workplace Fairness Congratulations to the winners and the nominees.

Radio Host, Denied Entry Into UK, Says He Will Sue

Posted on May 06, 2009
U.S. radio host Michael Savage, who's on the list of sixteen "least wanted" people in the U.K. and thus not eligible to enter the country, says he will sue Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. The list also includes Fred Phelps of...

Advertising Standards Authority Bans Email Ad Campaign For New Film

Posted on May 06, 2009
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an email campaign for the new film Shifty after the agency received a complaint from an employee who worried that the campaign might jeopardize his or her employment. The ad featured language that suggested...

Regulating the Virtual World Without External Assistance

Posted on May 05, 2009
Brendan James Gilbert, University at Buffalo Law School, SUNY, & SUNY at Buffalo School of Management, has published Getting to Conscionable: Negotiating Virtual Worlds' End User License Agreements Without Getting Externally Regulated. Here is the abstract...

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