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Matt Dillon Sues Producers Over "Crash"

Posted on October 01, 2010
Actor Matt Dillon has sued Bob Yari and the other producers of the Oscar winning film Crash over what he says are unpaid profits due him from the nearly $100 million-grossing film. Mr. Dillon is the latest in a series...

Pentagon Purchases Thousands of Copies of Officer's New Book, But Not Because the Military's a Big Fan

Posted on September 30, 2010
From CNN: The Pentagon has purchased thousands of copies of Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer's new book Operation Dark Heart, published with St. Martin's Press. The Pentagon is concerned that the book reveals state secrets. Lt. Col. Shaffer received...

Beckham Sues In Touch Weekly

Posted on September 30, 2010
David Beckham is suing In Touch Weekly over its story that he patronized prostitutes, according to E! Online.

FCC Report on Telephone Trends

Posted on September 30, 2010
The FCC has released a report on telephone trends for 2010. Link here.

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Candidate Versus Reporter, Caught On Tape

Posted on September 30, 2010
New York gubernational candidate Carl Paladino and New York Post reporter Fred Dicker had words, to put it mildly, over Mr. Paladino's allegation that his rival Andrew Cuomo had had affairs during his marriage to Kerry Kennedy (the couple is...

Motivations For Copyright Infringement via the Internet

Posted on September 30, 2010
Alexander Peukert, Goethe University Frankfurt, Faculty of Law, has published Why Do 'Good People' Disregard Copyright on the Internet? in Criminal Enforcement: A Blessing or a Curse for Intellectual Property? (Christopher Geiger ed, Edward Elgar Publishing) (forthcoming)...

Balancing the Media Right of Access and the Defendant's Right to a Fair Trial After U.S. v. Wecht

Posted on September 30, 2010
Seth A. Fersko has published United States v. Wecht: When Anonymous Juries, the Right of Access, and Judicial Discretion Collide, at 40 Seton Hall Law Review 763 (2010). Here is the abstract. The United States was a young country in...

"Deadliest Catch" Captains Quit Show

Posted on September 29, 2010
Three of the stars of Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch" have decided to leave the show, following the network's decision to begin proceedings against them over their failure to begin work on the spinoff show "Hillstranded." The name is based on...

The History of Authors' Reversion Rights

Posted on September 29, 2010
Lionel A. F. Bently, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, and Jane C. Ginsburg, Columbia Law School, have published 'The Sole Right . . . Shall Return to the Authors': Anglo-American Authors' Reversion Rights from the Statute of Anne to...

Periodizing the History of the Internet

Posted on September 29, 2010
John G. Palfrey, Jr., Harvard Law School, has published Four Phases of Internet Regulation, in volume 77 of Social Research (Fall 2010). Here is the abstract. The four phases of Internet regulation are the ?open Internet? period, from the network?s...

Rutgers Students Kills Himself After Two Others Film Him, Broadcast Activity On 'Net

Posted on September 29, 2010
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: A freshman at Rutgers University (New Brunswick) killed himself after his roommate and another student broadcast his sexual activity with another person. The two have been charged with cyber-voyeurism and invasion of privacy...

The Google Blacklist

Posted on September 29, 2010
Google Instant "blacklists" certain words, according to this article from CNN. Which ones? Well, the ones you'd expect, but also some you wouldn't.

Wikileaks Leaking

Posted on September 28, 2010
From the Atlantic Wire: Wikileaks spokesperson Daniel Schmitt has quit and is speaking out about the company's founder, Julian Assange. More here from Wired magazine and CNN.

Fair Use For Fair Users

Posted on September 28, 2010
Ned Snow, University of Arkansas School of Law, has published Untangling Fair Use as a Matter of Law. Here is the abstract. Fair use is an issue of fact for the jury. Or at least it should be. Recently courts...

BBC Decides Not to Air Program On Lord Ashcroft

Posted on September 28, 2010
Citing concerns over legal issues, the BBC has decided not to broadcast a program on Lord Ashcroft, the outgoing Tory deputy party chair. The network had planned to air a program investigating the politician's finances on its BBC1 show Panorama....

Supreme Court To Make Audio Of Its Arguments Available

Posted on September 28, 2010
The Supreme Court will start putting audio of all its arguments online each Friday.

Prior Restraints, As Applied Challenges, and Overbreath Claims: Poof! Begone! Says One Professor

Posted on September 27, 2010
Larry Alexander, University of San Diego School of Law, has published There is No First Amendment Overbreadth (But There are Vague First Amendment Doctrines); Prior Restraints Aren?t ?Prior?; and ?As Applied? Challenges Seek Judicial Statutory Amendments...

More Gossip Web Sites Attract College Students

Posted on September 27, 2010
A successor to JuicyCampus.com has popped up, and colleges are wondering how to deal. From the Chronicle of Higher Ed.

Courage Under Fire

Posted on September 25, 2010
From the New York Times, the BBC, and NPR, coverage in this country of a Mexican newspaper's address to the drug cartels:�Que quieren de nosotros? What do you want from us? after killers cut down two of its reporters, both...

One Silly Tweet

Posted on September 24, 2010
A British man sends an ill-advised message via Twitter, and suffers consequences. Should he lose two jobs and be found guilty of a crime? Helen A.S. Popkin discusses the issue here. More here from "Jack of Kent" (UK lawyer David...

The Colbert Reports To Congress

Posted on September 24, 2010
Stephen Colbert brought his own brand of inspired nuttiness to Capital Hill yesterday to testify before the House Judiciary Subcommittee Immigration and Farm Labor. Between the yucks, he had a message: unemployed Americans should be more interested in jobs in...

The Media's Presentation of Interested Parties in Judicial Elections

Posted on September 24, 2010
Beth Easter, Indiana University, Bloomington, has published Buying Justice: How the Media Frames Interest Group and Political Party Involvement in State Supreme Court Elections, as an APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper. Here is the abstract. Media coverage of the role...

Where Is a Newspaper "Printed and Published?"

Posted on September 23, 2010
Anita Ramasastry on a New Jersey court's interpretation of a statute defining where a newspaper is "printed and published" in the state. The case is Courier-Post v. County of Camden.

Lawsuit-a-What?

Posted on September 23, 2010
Lindsay Lohan has abandoned her "Milkawhat?" lawsuit against ETrade, the financial trading firm, which stars babies talking about investments. A commercial first aired during this year's Super Bowl features a girl baby cross-examining her male boyfriend about a third party...

Jean-Luc Godard and the Case of the Internet Pirate

Posted on September 22, 2010
Famed filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard is trying to assist photographer and Internet pirate James Climent, who owes 20,000 Euros for violating copyright laws. Mr. Godard wants to help Mr. Climent take his case to the European Court of Human Rights, where...

Filtering Worldwide

Posted on September 22, 2010
John G. Palfrey, Jr., Harvard Law School, has published Local Nets on a Global Network: Filtering and the Internet Governance Problem, in The Global Flow of Information, Jack Balkin ed., (forthcoming). Here is the abstract. More than three dozen states...

Content Owner Claims Over Time: The Chicken Little Angle

Posted on September 22, 2010
Mark A. Lemley, Stanford Law School, has published Is the Sky Falling on the Content Industries? as Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 165485. Here is the abstract. Content owners claim they are doomed, because in the digital environment, they...

Czech Republic's Privacy Protection Agency Says "No" To Street View Program

Posted on September 22, 2010
Google, which faces lawsuits over its "Street View" program in a number of countries, is now encountering a setback in the Czech Republic. The Czech government's Office for Personal Data Protection has told the company it cannot register the program....

"The Social Network": Shakespearian Commentary On Social Media?

Posted on September 21, 2010
The Hollywood Reporter's review of "The Social Network," the movie about the making of social media site Facebook. An excerpt: As the movie makes abundantly clear, the facts behind its founding are in dispute but, without a doubt, Zuckerberg did...

Is Greed Still Good?

Posted on September 21, 2010
Oliver Stone's back in the boardroom. More here from MSNBC.com.

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