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No Loafing Around--Get Out the Fresh Bread
Posted on July 21, 2010The Advertising Standards Authority (UK) has dinged Tesco, the big grocery store chain, for claiming that its bread is "baked from scratch in our in-store bakery," when it, well, isn't. According to the Telegraph, the Real Bread Campaign went after...
Balancing Library Collection Management and the First Amendment
Posted on July 21, 2010Anne Klinefelter, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), School of Law, has published First Amendment Limits on Library Collection Management, in volume 102 of the Law Library Journal (2010). Here is the abstract. First Amendment freedoms impose some limits on...
The Reach of the First Amendment
Posted on July 21, 2010Timothy Zick, William & Mary Law School, has published Territoriality and the First Amendment: Free Speech At - And Beyond - Our Borders at 85 Notre Dame Law Review 101 (2010). Here is the abstract. This Article examines the relationship...
The History of the Intellectual Property Clause
Posted on July 21, 2010Neal Solomon has published A Short History of the Intellectual Property Clause: A Review of 19th and 20th Century Landmark Patent Cases. Here is the abstract. The American patent system emanates from the intellectual property clause in Article I of...
The Spice Guys and Libraries
Posted on July 20, 2010These videos are only slightly related to media law but they're funny and they plug the importance of libraries. So here they are. Enjoy. This one, courtesy of Isaiah Mustafa, who is the new face of "Old Spice," tells us...
Internet Filtering and Responses To Its Use
Posted on July 20, 2010Kristen A. Knapp has published Internet Filtering: The Ineffectiveness of WTO Remedies and the Availability of Alternative Tort Remedies. Here is the abstract. In recent years, Internet filtering, while not a new phenomenon, has grown both in the United States...
Freedom of Speech in Russia: The LImits
Posted on July 20, 2010From the New York Times, an article on just how limited artistic speech still is in Russia, and how far artists are willing to push the government on the issue.
The State of Free Speech On Private Campuses
Posted on July 20, 2010Kelly Sarabyn has published Free Speech at Private Universities at 39 Journal of Law & Education 145 (April 2010). Here is the abstract. For the last thirty years, our nation?s universities have debated whether to proscribe hate speech on campus....
The Web's "Yuck" Factor
Posted on July 19, 2010From the New York Times, the emotional toll on those who troll the web for good.
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction In Cyberspace
Posted on July 19, 2010Chris Reed, Queen Mary University of London School of Law, has published Think Global, Act Local: Extraterritoriality in Cyberspace. Here is the abstract. It is uncontroversial that states are entitled to apply their national laws to foreign cyberspace actors where...
The Life of a Media Blogger
Posted on July 19, 2010The New York Times notes the Politico staff is stressed. No joke.
Library Standards of Privacy and Norms for the Digital World
Posted on July 18, 2010Anne Klinefelter, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Law, has published Library Standards for Privacy: A Model for the Digital World? in volume 11 of the North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology (2010). Here is the abstract....
The IP Address as Personally Identifiable Information
Posted on July 18, 2010Joshua J. McIntyre, DePaul University College of Law, has published The Number is Me: Why Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses Should Be Protected as Personally Identifiable Information, in volume 60 of the DePaul Law Review (2011). Here is the abstract. Although...
Disclosures After Citizens United
Posted on July 16, 2010Lloyd H. Mayer, Notre Dame Law School, has published Disclosures About Disclosure, in volume 45 of the Indiana Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract. An often overlooked aspect of the Supreme Court?s recent decision in Citizens United v. FEC...
The FTC's Blogger Endorsement Guidelines
Posted on July 16, 2010James B. Astrachan, University of Baltimore School of Law, has published Transparency in the New Media in the volume for 2010 of The Daily Record. Here is the abstract. This short article discusses new electronic media, such as social networking...
Rescuing the Media With Vouchers
Posted on July 16, 2010Adam D. Thierer and Berin Michael Szoka, Progress & Freedom Foundation, have published The Wrong Way to Reinvent Media, Part 3: Media Vouchers, in 17 Progress & Freedom Foundation Progress on Point (2010). Here is the abstract. In this installment,...
Band Sued Over Use of Photo
Posted on July 16, 2010A model's lawyer is getting his or her teeth into Vampire Weekend over this photo, which Kirsten Kennis says the band used without permission on its new album cover. Kennis says the 1983 pic release also has a forged signature....
Jewish Law and Copyright
Posted on July 15, 2010Neil W. Netanel, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, and David Nimmer, Irell & Manella, have published Is Copyright Property? The Debate in Jewish Law , in 12 Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2011). Here is the abstract. Is...
"John Doe" Posters and Israeli Law
Posted on July 15, 2010Michael Birnhack, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, has published Unmasking Anonymous Online Users in Israel, at 2 Hukim: Journal on Legislation 51-131 (2010). Here is the abstract. What should be the legal rule as to unmasking anonymous online...
Reaction To the "Fleeting Expletives" Decision
Posted on July 14, 2010From the New York Times, an article on the 2nd Circuit unanimous decision regarding the FCC's "fleeting expletives" policy.
FCC Named "Most Improved" Fed Agency In Survey
Posted on July 13, 2010The newly released 2010 OPM Viewpoint Employee Satisfaction Survey has tagged the FCC as the "most improved" government agency. FCC Chair Julius Genachowski seems pleased. In a statement released July 12th he said, I am delighted that the FCC has...
Director Pleads Guilty To Lying About Hiring PI
Posted on July 13, 2010Director John McTiernan has pled guilty to lying about hiring PI Anthony Pellicano; he'll face sentencing in October. More here from the Hollywood Reporter.
Speech and the Establishment Clause
Posted on July 13, 2010Claudia E. Haupt, George Washington University Law School, has published Mixed Public-Private Speech and the Establishment Clause, (forthcoming) in the Tulane Law Review. Here is the abstract. Determining responsibility for speech is important for two reasons: to address rights to...
Second Circuit Strikes Down "Fleeting Expletives" Policy On Constitutional Grounds
Posted on July 13, 2010The Second Circuit has ruled in favor of Fox Broadcasting and other media and against the FCC in the "fleeting expletives" case. Said the Court, We now hold that the FCC?s policy violates the First Amendment because it is unconstitutionally...
A British Media Blog
Posted on July 13, 2010Interesting blog that covers British media: Inforrm's Blog (for International Forum for Responsible Media). It's sponsored by the Guardian.
International Law and Free Speech Protections
Posted on July 13, 2010William J. Magnuson has published The Responsibility to Protect and the Decline of Sovereignty: Free Speech Protection Under International Law, in volume 43 of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (2010). Here is the abstract. State sovereignty has long held...
Imagery and Its Consequences
Posted on July 12, 2010Gregory Scott Parks, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and Danielle C. Heard, Stanford University School of Humanities & Sciences, have published 'Assassinate the Nigger Apes' [1]: Obama, Implicit Imagery, and the Dire Consequences of Racist Jokes...
William & Mary Institute of Bill of Rights Law Supreme Court Preview
Posted on July 12, 2010The William & Mary Institute of Bill of Rights Law announces the case for its Supreme Court Preview this year; it's Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association. Here's a link to the Institute's website discussing the event.
World Cup Over; Cephalopod Cedes Stage
Posted on July 12, 2010With the media watching, Paul the Psychic Octopus munched on a mussel, his record untarnished, and retired from the business of picking soccer teams. Apparently the Sea Life Aquarium has decided he's earned his pension. More from the Associated Press...
ScienceBlogs Drops Blog FoodFrontiers
Posted on July 12, 2010ScienceBlogs has dropped one of its blogs, FoodFrontiers, after some readers and other bloggers complained that the blog was not independent enough. Pepsi started the blog, and Pepsi employees wrote it.
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