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Minnesota Appellate Court Holds Consent Bars Patient Invasion of Privacy Claim Over Broadcast

Posted on September 09, 2008
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded a case in which a patient sued the Mayo Clinic for invasion of privacy after "a videotaped interview of her discussing a private medical condition, produced and disseminated by Mayo, aired...

Lawyer-Blogger Goes On Trial For Defamation in Singapore

Posted on September 09, 2008
Lawyer-blogger Gopalan Nair has pled not guilty to defaming a Singaporan judge, Belinda Ang, whom he accused of "prostituting herself," implying that she was not impartial in a recent high profile trial. He is representing himself. He was found guilty...

Nyet, South Park

Posted on September 09, 2008
Reuters reports that the Moscow's prosecutor's office is trying to ban South Park from the airwaves, citing a danger to children. In particular, it cites the show's "extremist" ideas. Read more here.

Making Money on the 'Net--Business, Not Law, Should Be the Model

Posted on September 08, 2008
Eric Priest has published "Why Emerging Business Models and Not Copyright Law are the Key to Monetising Content Online," in Copyright Law, Digital Content, and the Internet in the Asia-Pacific, edited by Brian Fitzgerald et al., (Sydney University Press, 2008)...

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Copyright and the Internet

Posted on September 08, 2008
Hannibal Travis, Florida International University College of Law, and Villanova University School of Law, has published "Opting Out of the Internet in the United States and the European Union: Copyright, Safe Harbors, and International Law," in volume 83 of the...

Call For Applications: Fellowship in First Amendment and Media Law

Posted on September 07, 2008
From Professor Angela Campbell of Georgetown University Law Center: Georgetown Law's Institute for Public Representation is inviting applications due December 1, 2008, for a two-year fellowship in First Amendment and Media Law. The details are provided in the attached announcement...

New Book Forthcoming On Celebs and the Media

Posted on September 06, 2008
Robin Barnes, University of Connecticut, has published Outrageous Invasions: The Defamation and Harassment Surrounding Media Invasion of Celebrities' Private Lives (forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2009). Here is an abstract for the book. Cause Celebre, the French aphorism for famous...

India's Regulation of the Internet

Posted on September 06, 2008
Raman Chima, National Law School of India University, has published "The Regulation of the Internet With Relation to Speech and Expression by the Indian State." Here is the abstract. Download the paper from SSRN here.

Comcast To Appeal Adverse FCC Ruling on Internet Apps

Posted on September 06, 2008
The AP reports that Comcast plans to appeal the FCC's decision telling it to cease blocking customer filesharing, taking the position that its policy delays rather than blocks Internet traffic. Further, it maintains that network neutrality is not law, but...

Web Trademarking: Let the Battle Begin

Posted on September 01, 2008
The New York Times' Steve Lohr reports on the legal and public relations battle brewing over branding in the web and business world. Take cloud computing, for example....

I Want My Web TV?

Posted on September 01, 2008
In an article in yesterday's New York Times, Brian Stelter discusses how the web TV industry is developing, just months after the writers' strike. He reports that content is arriving, but so far, audience is not. Read more here.

Media Commentary From Peter Preston

Posted on September 01, 2008
Peter Preston of the Observer discusses "serious sexism on TV news," the price of papers, and general media silliness here.

From Across the Pond: Reporters and Moby Dick

Posted on September 01, 2008
Siobhain Butterworth discusses why reporters' shield laws matter, as well as why classification matters, in an interesting opinion piece for the Guardian.

British Reporter Says She Will Sue Employer For Age Discrimination

Posted on September 01, 2008
British television reporter Selina Scott says she will sue Channel 5 for discrimination, alleging she was passed over in favor of younger reporters as a replacement for another journalist who is set to take maternity leave.

The Press and Gary Glitter

Posted on September 01, 2008
The Guardian's Peter Wilby discusses his colleagues' reaction to the return of Gary Glitter (born Paul Gadd) to the UK after his release from a Vietnam prison. Begins Mr. Wilby, I suppose we should be used to it by now,...

The Twenty-First Century Internet

Posted on August 31, 2008
In the New York Times, John Markoff explains how changes in the structure of the Internet have economic and military significance for the U.S.

Tropical Storm (Soon To Be Hurricane) Gustav Update

Posted on August 29, 2008
It looks like Gustav is headed our way and will hit as at least a Cat 3, and maybe a Cat 4, so we may be without power for some time next week, perhaps starting Monday afternoon. From the Office...

Publisher Asks For Verdict, Jury Award, To Be Overturned in Defonseca Case

Posted on August 29, 2008
Jane Daniel, the publisher of Mt. Ivy Press, is seeking to have a judgment against her overturned after the plaintiff in that lawsuit, Misha Defonseca, admitted earlier this year that statements in the book Ms. Daniel published are fabricated. Ms....

Comcast Gets Strict With Customers

Posted on August 29, 2008
Comcast is putting its customers on an Internet diet, beginning in October. It's now telling users they may only upload and download 250 gigabytes a month. It has already begun a policy of cutting off users who, in its view,...

COWs, COLTs, and GOATs Ready For Gustav

Posted on August 29, 2008
According to an article by AP reporter Peter Svensson, Hurricane Gustav may test whether the nation's wireless carriers have figured out how to respond to natural disasters. They've come up with a menagerie of equipment to meet customer and company...

Nicholas Kristof on Media Ethics

Posted on August 28, 2008
Nicholas Kristof discusses his reporting on the anthrax investigation involving Dr. Steven Hatfill and apologizes to Dr. Hatfill, offers some hypotheticals involving other high profile cases, and wonders about when reporters report, and when they keep still...

Blogger Arraigned On Charges of Violating Copyright After Posting Guns 'n Roses Songs To Website

Posted on August 28, 2008
The BBC reports that blogger Kevin Cogill has made bail after being arraigned on charges of having violated the copyright laws for posting nine Guns 'n Roses songs on his website. The songs are believed to come from the band's...

Mail On Sunday Apologizes To Sir Salman Rushdie Over Excerpts From Book

Posted on August 28, 2008
The Guardian reports that the Mail on Sunday says it will apologize to author Salman Rushdie for reprinting statements from a book it excerpted; Sir Salman won a libel judgment against the book's author, Ron Evans, this week. The book,...

Mail On Sunday Apologizes To Sir Salman Rushdie Over Excerpts From Book

U. S. Patent Office Will Continue To Re-Examine Blackboard Patent

Posted on August 28, 2008
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the U.S. Patent Office has denied a request from Blackboard, the course management software company, to stay a review of a patent the Office had granted the company. Blackboard is in the midst...

ABC Producer Arrested Outside Brown Palace Hotel

Posted on August 27, 2008
ABC News reports that one of its producers was arrested as he and his crew filmed Senators and others leaving the Brown Palace Hotel. ABC says its employees were on a public sidewalk at the time. The hotel filed a...

The Effects of Illegal Music Downloading on Sales

Posted on August 27, 2008
Jordi Mckenzie, University of Sydney, has published "Illegal Music Downloading and its Impact on Legitimate Sales: Australian Empirical Evidence." Here is the abstract. This paper explores illegal music file-sharing activity and its effect on Australian sales of singles in the...

A Policeman's Lot Is Not a Happy One

Posted on August 27, 2008
The Advertising Standards Authority has sided with the National Federation of Retail Newsagents over an advertisement run by the National Policing Improvement Agency intended to recruit new special constables. It showed a police officer entering a shop with a sign...

The FTC, Sales Rules, and Prerecorded Sales Calls

Posted on August 27, 2008
Eric Sinrod discusses the FTC's decision to move on all those annoying prerecorded sales calls.

Update: Mattel Gets $100 Million Award

Posted on August 27, 2008
A federal jury has awarded Mattel $100 million in that infringemant lawsuit over the Bratz dolls against MGA. Read more here.

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