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FCC Vote On "Net Neutrality Rules" Set For Today

Posted on December 21, 2010
From the NYT, an article on the rules and vote. More from CNN.

Aguilera, Rihanna Performances On "X-Factor" Criticized

Posted on December 21, 2010
Media regulator Ofcom has received thousands of complaints concerning performances by Christina Aguilera and Rihanna on the show The X Factor. ITV, the show's network also received numerous complaints. The Daily Mail published stills of the performances, and one critic...

Pirate Bay Defendants Appeal Convictions

Posted on December 20, 2010
Carl Lundström, one of the Pirate Bay defendants, is appealing his sentence to Sweden's highest court, according to his attorney, Per E. Samuelsson. Mr. Lundström and his co-defendants Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij were convicted last year...

Argument Over Whether "Downton Abbey" Mimics "Upstairs, Downstairs" Breaks Out

Posted on December 19, 2010
Jean Marsh, the co-creator and star of the seventies BBC hit, Upstairs, Downstairs, is suggesting that the new ITV series Downton Abbey, which is drawing eyeballs, certainly closely resembles her earlier series. "I think we were all surprised. The new...

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Seventh Circuit Denies Black Appeal Rehearing

Posted on December 18, 2010
The Seventh Circuit has refused to rehear Conrad Black's appeal. Link here.

The New York Times On the FCC's Proposed New Internet Rules

Posted on December 18, 2010
The New York Times comments on FCC Chair Genachowski's proposed new "rules of the road" for the Internet. Says the editorial in part, The rules proposed so far have several weaknesses. For one thing, they forbid blocking Internet traffic or...

Salinger Sequel Permanently Enjoined

Posted on December 17, 2010
That sequel to "Catcher in the Rye" is permanently enjoined from sale in the U.S. The defendants and their agents and representatives may not manufacture, publish, distribute, advertise, promote, sell, or "otherwise disseminat[e] any copy of the book 60 Years...

Music and Its Use In Political Campaigns

Posted on December 17, 2010
Sarah Schacter is publishing The Barracuda Lacuna: Music, Political Campaigns, and the First Amendment in the Georgetown Law Journal. Here is the abstract. This Note is about the First Amendment issues that are raised when political candidates use music in...

Copyright For Internet Authors and Artists

Posted on December 17, 2010
Thomas G. Field, Jr., University of New Hampshire School of Law, has published Copyright for Internet Authors and Artists. Here is the abstract. This small paper attempts to answer inquiries received during the span of at least a decade. It...

Right of Publicity in the Greek Legal Regime

Posted on December 17, 2010
Marios Paplouikas, University of Peloponnese, has published ?Sports Image? and the Law. Here is the abstract. In the context of what is called the new media environment, the term ?sports image? is used meaning the athlete?s right to their own...

Appellate Court Upholds Bail For Assange

Posted on December 16, 2010
An appellate court has upheld the grant of bail for Julian Assange, and he should be freed today pending the posting of the 200,000 pounds required. Here's more from MSNBC.com.

Limiting Front-Of-Food Packaging Labels and the First Amendment

Posted on December 16, 2010
Timothy D. Lytton, Albany Law School, is publishing Banning Front-of-Package Food Labels: First Amendment Constraints on Public Health Policy, in Public Health Nutrition. Here is the abstract. In recent months, the FDA has begun a crackdown on misleading nutrition and...

One For Mr. Berlusconi, By the Skin of His Teeth

Posted on December 15, 2010
High drama on the Italian legislative floor this week as Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi escaped disaster, surviving a confidence vote by three yeas. Three pregnant women arrived to vote against him. Votes shifted one way, then the other. Accusations of...

Julian Assange Still In Jail

Posted on December 15, 2010
Wilkileaks founder Julian Assange, although granted bail yesterday, is still in custody after the Swedish government challenged his release. The Swedes are seeking his extradition on sex offense allegations brought by two women. The U.S. government is also considering whether...

Assange Gets Bail, Will Stay At Friend's Estate

Posted on December 14, 2010
A British judge has set bail at 200,000 pounds for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. He must surrender his passport to ensure he will not flee the jurisdiction. He will stay at the estate of a friend and will be under...

Former Food Network Host Pleads No Contest To Murder Plot, Sentenced To Prison

Posted on December 14, 2010
Los Angeles judge Judge H. Chester Horn Jr. sentenced former tv chef Juan--Carlos Cruz to nine years in prison for trying to hire two homeless men to kill his wife and ordered the star of "Calorie Commando" and author of...

Steal This Joke

Posted on December 13, 2010
How to protect against joke theft is an up and coming area of IP law, or would be if IP lawyers could figure out how to protect jokes from being stolen. The NYT's Dave Itzkoff writes here about Craig Ferguson's...

Facebook and Free Speech

Posted on December 13, 2010
From the New York Times, an article on how Facebook responds to take down requests...or how it doesn't. Discerning the company's policy on what is acceptable to post online isn't always easy, either.

When POTUS Calls....

Posted on December 10, 2010
So the Prez guested on Mythbusters (frankly one of my favorite programs) on Wednesday night, December 8, and asked head Mythbusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman to take another look at the infamous story that Archimedes figured out a way...

The IP of Comedy

Posted on December 10, 2010
Dotan Oliar and Christopher Jon Sprigman, both of the University of Virginia Law School, have published Intellectual Property Norms in Stand-Up Comedy in the collection The Making and Unmaking of Intellectual Property (University of Chicago Press, 2010)...

That "R" Rating: Wanted and Desired

Posted on December 09, 2010
The Weinstein Company is getting that much desired "R" rating for its film "Blue Valentine." The MPAA Appeals Board has overturned the movie's intial NC-17 classification, ruling that its content (particularly one scene) was sexually graphic but not graphic enough...

"Kung Fu Panda" Suit Proceeds To Discovery

Posted on December 07, 2010
An update on that lawsuit against Dreamworks Animation for theft of the "Kung Fu Panda" idea. Terence Dunn says he pitched the idea of a spiritual kung fu fighting panda bear to the studio in 2001 but the studio said...

Assange Says He'll Fight Extradition To Sweden

Posted on December 07, 2010
Julian Assange, just arrested in the UK and denied bail on sexual assault charges, says he intends to fight extradition to Sweden.

Wikileaks Good? Wikileaks Bad? Maybe Not So Clear

Posted on December 07, 2010
Daniel Drezner on Why Wikileaks is Bad for Scholars (via the Chronicle of Higher Education). But Timothy Garton-Ash likes the access to history.

Expanding the Sound Recording Performance Right

Posted on December 06, 2010
Brian R. Day, The George Washington Law School, has published The Super Brawl: The History and Future of the Sound Recording Performance Right, in volume 16 of the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review (2009). Here is the abstract. On...

The Rights In the Copy

Posted on December 06, 2010
Pascale Chapdelaine, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, has published Living in the Shadow of the Intangible: The Nature of the Copy of a Copyrighted Work. Here is the abstract. Copyright laws throughout the world are copyright holder centric and...

Rethinking Public Forum Doctrine

Posted on December 06, 2010
Abner S. Greene, Fordham University School of Law, is publishing Speech Platforms in a forthcoming issue of the Case Western Reserve Law Review. Here is the abstract. First amendment doctrine treats state regulation of private speech differently from the government?s...

Connecting Critical Race Theory and Hip Hop

Posted on December 06, 2010
andré douglas pond cummings, West Virginia University College of Law, has published A Furious Kinship: Critical Race Theory and the Hip Hop Nation,in volume 48 of the University of Louisville Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract. Two explosive movements...

Social Networking Sites, Privacy, and Security

Posted on December 03, 2010
Ronald E. Leenes, Tilburg University Law School, has published Context is Everything - Sociality and Privacy in Online Social Network Sites, in Privacy and Identity (A.M. Bezzi, ed. IFIP AICT 320, 2010) at pp. 48-65. Here is the abstract. Social...

Viacom Files Appeal in YouTube Lawsuit

Posted on December 03, 2010
From The Hollywood Reporter: Viacom has filed its appeal in the Second Circuit of a lower court's dismissal of its infringement suit against YouTube.

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