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Bosnia Grants, Then Denies Angelina Jolie Permission To Make Film In Country
Posted on October 15, 2010According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Bosnian government first granted, then denied actress Angelina Jolie permission to begin filming a project in the country. It gave as a reason her failure to submit the script of the film ahead of...
Ninth Circuit Holds Oregon "Luring" and "Grooming" Statutes Overbroad
Posted on October 15, 2010The Ninth Circuit has ruled that two Oregon statutes generally forbidding the exposure of sexually explicit material to children are overbroad and violate the First Amendment. We consider here the constitutionality of a pair of Oregon statutes intended to stop...
Cell-a-cious Poem?
Posted on October 14, 2010Flap over an award winning poem, Stem C. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) awarded this entry by Tyson Anderson a win but withdrew it after complaints that it was "blasphemous" from (among others) the California Family Council...
Suing the Press Today
Posted on October 14, 2010Read Concurring Opinions' Daniel Solove on why libel and privacy suits against the media are declining.
Television Content Regulation In India
Posted on October 14, 2010Arpan Banerjee has published Television Content Regulation in India: Are News Channels Crying Wolf? at 21 Entertainment Law Review (no. 58) (2010). Here is the abstract. Comments on the Indian Broadcasting Services Regulation Bill 2007 and the News Broadcasting Standards...
More On Citizens United
Posted on October 14, 2010Lucian A. Bebchuk, Harvard Law School, and Robert J. Jackson Jr., Columbia Law School, have published Corporate Political Speech: Who Decides? in volume 124 of the Harvard Law Review (forthcoming). Here is the abstract. As long as corporations have the...
Canadian Filmmaker On Trial For "Moral Corruption"
Posted on October 14, 2010Director Remy Couture faces "moral corruption" charges in a Montreal court for films available on his website RemyFX.com. The filmmaker's trial began October 13 after objections and allegations began arriving that "children [were] being murdered" and other horrors were being...
Judge Allows Suit Against J.K. Rowling To Proceed
Posted on October 14, 2010A judge has ruled that the plagiarism lawsuit against J.K. Rowling may go forward, but only if the plaintiffs post cash and he indicated he thinks they are unlikely to succeed on the merits. The representatives of the late Adrian...
How the Sunday Morning Talk Shows Pick Their Congressional Guests
Posted on October 13, 2010Alex B. Mitchell, George Mason University School of Law, has published Guess Who Won't Be Coming to the Studio: An Unknown Congress, at 13 The Green Bag 2d ed. 483 (Summer 2010). Here is the abstract. Before every broadcast, the...
The Courts and the New Media
Posted on October 13, 2010Karen Salaz, Thomas Hodson, and Chris J. Davey have published New Media and the Courts: The Current Status and a Look at the Future. Here is the abstract. The Conference of Court Public Information Officers report on new media and...
Litigating the Danish Cartoons
Posted on October 12, 2010Robert A. Kahn, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), has published Tragedy, Farce or Legal Mobilization? The Danish Cartoons in Court in France and Canada as U. of St. Thomas Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-21. Here is...
Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex.....
Posted on October 12, 2010Tom Shales discusses the ever popular topic and how the media has focused on it here.
FCC Commissioner Statements On the Signing of the Equal Access To Access To 21st Century Communications Act
Posted on October 12, 2010From FCC Chair Genachowski: ?The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act is the most significant disability law in two decades. The law?s provisions were endorsed in the FCC?s National Broadband Plan. They will bring communication laws into the 21st...
To Sue Or Not To Sue: Is That the Question?
Posted on October 11, 2010The Hollywood Reporter on Mark Zuckerberg's options in a lawsuit against The Social Network's makers.
Captains Ho
Posted on October 11, 2010Skirmish over. The "Deadliest Catch" captains are back, and we presume are planning to go back out to sea. Captains Sig Hansen and Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand had been at odds with the Discovery Network over Discovery's lawsuit against them...
The Online Version
Posted on October 10, 2010Second thoughts about first thoughts, the differences between print and online, and what remains, here from the NYT opinion pages. Additionally, one of Howard Kurtz's guests on Reliable Sources today waxed eloquent about the media's problems with getting it right...
Arthur Penn's Movies
Posted on October 10, 2010An appreciation of Arthur Penn's art, in the pages of the New York Times.
Free Speech, Free Thoughts, and the Heartland
Posted on October 10, 2010Some background on free speech, free thoughts, and the Westboro Baptist Church and its members, whence the current free speech case before the U.S. Supreme Court springs.
Information Projects and Privacy
Posted on October 07, 2010Jon Garon, Hamline University School of Law, is publishing The Implications of Informatics on Data Policy in the Media Law Review. Here is the abstract. Medical records and health information; individual financial records; aggregated financial trend data; copyrighted music; public...
The Impact of the Indian Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 On Online Privacy
Posted on October 07, 2010Apar Gupta, Amity Law School & Columbia Law School, has published Balancing Online Privacy in India at 6 Indian Journal of Law and Technology 43 (2010). Here is the abstract. There have been disturbing press reports and articles on the...
The History of Copyright "Formalities" In Nineteenth Century Europe
Posted on October 07, 2010Stef Van Gompel, University of Amsterdam, has published Les Formalités Sont Mortes, Vive Les Formalités! Copyright Formalities and the Reasons for Their Decline in Nineteenth Century Europe, at Privilege and Property: Essays on the History of Copyright 157 (R...
Is P2P Caching Copyright Infringement?
Posted on October 06, 2010Assaf Jacob, The Interdisciplinary Center, Radziner School of Law, and Zoe Argento, Roger Williams University School of Law, have published To Cache or Not to Cache ? That is the Question; P2P ?System Caching? at Whittier Law Review, Vol. 31,...
The Google Book Settlement As Copyright Reform
Posted on October 06, 2010Pamela Samuelson, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, has published The Google Book Settlement as Copyright Reform. It is forthcoming in the Wisconsin Law Review. Here is the abstract. An intriguing way to view the proposed settlement of the...
New Zealand Government Tries To Mediate Between Producers, Talent, On "The Hobbit"
Posted on October 05, 2010The Hollywood Reporter notes that New Zealand's economic development minister is taking charge of the dispute between director Peter Jackson and actors and others on the production of "The Hobbit." Producer Jackson and his wife, Kate Walsh, who is co-producing...
The Zuckerberg Condundrum
Posted on October 04, 2010The New York Times examines reaction, criticism, and fallout from The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin's interpretation of the origins of Facebook.
Privacy, the Internet, and Questions About a University's Responsibilities
Posted on October 04, 2010From the Chronicle of Higher Education, coverage of young Mr. Clementi's death and the repercussions on the Rutgers University campus.
The FCC and the "Mystery Fee"
Posted on October 04, 2010The FCC announces that it is looking into Verizon's "mystery fee" issue. "We can confirm reports of an FCC investigation into mystery fees that appeared on Verizon Wireless bills costing over 15 million Americans tens of millions of dollars. Reportedly,...
The Fair Use Defense Asserted For Third Parties
Posted on October 04, 2010Joseph P. Liu, Boston College Law School, has published Toward a Defense of Fair Use Enablement, or How U.S. Copyright Law is Hurting My Daughter. It is forthcoming in the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA. Here is...
Comments, Comments, Everywhere...
Posted on October 03, 2010That Michigan Assistant Attorney General who's been blogging (and talking about) the U of Michigan student council president is taking a leave of absence. On his return (assuming he returns, I suppose), the AG's office will hold a disciplinary hearing...
Stephen J. Cannell Dies
Posted on October 01, 2010Following on the losses of legendary actor Tony Curtis on September 29, fifties heartthrob Eddie Fisher on September 22, and actress Gloria Stuart on September 26, we now learn of the death of writer/producer Stephen J. Cannell ("The Rockford Files,"...
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