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A Red Letter Day For Adult Sites

Posted on June 25, 2010
Today, ICANN voted to consider adding .xxx as a domain for adult (otherwise known as porn) sites. Porn sites have wanted their own domain for several years, but not everyone thinks such a move is a good idea. More here...

Judge Declines To Dismiss IIED, Publication of Private Facts, Right of Publicity Act Claims Against A&E

Posted on June 25, 2010
A federal district judge has declined to dismiss a plaintiff's claims under the Illinois Right of Publicity Act, common law publication of private facts invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress against the A&E Network and a production...

Copyright Protections and the Internet in the Indian Legal Regime

Posted on June 24, 2010
Tabrez Ahmad, KIIT Law School, KIIT University, has published Copyright Infringement in Cyberspace and Network Security: A Threat to E-Commerce, at 9 The IUP Journal of Cyber Law 17-24 (February/May 2010). Here is the abstract. The growth of information and...

Facebook and Privacy

Posted on June 24, 2010
Eric Sinrod on the debate surrounding requests for more privacy on Facebook.

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Metropolitan Police Begin Investigation of Google's Street View Program

Posted on June 24, 2010
The Metropolitan Police (UK) has started an investigation into whether Google has violated any criminal laws through its use of data collected over wifi networks. The criminal laws implicated would be the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and the Wireless...

Pakistani Court Bans Internet Access Again

Posted on June 24, 2010
A court in Pakistan has again banned access to certain Internet services because their content gives offense to Islam. They include Yahoo, Amazon, and Google. Read more here in a Reuters story.

Personal Manager Sues Joan Rivers For Defamation

Posted on June 24, 2010
William Sammeth, former manager to Joan Rivers, is suing her over statements in her new book Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, which he says defame him by saying he "disappeared" rather than stating that she fired him. He also...

Josh Gottheimer Named Senior Counselor To FCC Chair

Posted on June 23, 2010
FCC Chair Julius Genachowski has a new senior counselor: Josh Gottheimer. Mr. Gottheimer holds a JD from Harvard Law School, and served in the Clinton Administration.

Free On Bail, Professor Erlinder Comes Home

Posted on June 23, 2010
C. Peter Erlinder has returned to the U.S. More here.

Trademarks and "Free Riding" Claims

Posted on June 23, 2010
Mark A. Lemley, Stanford Law School, and Mark P. McKenna, Notre Dame Law School, have published Owning Mark(et)s as Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 395 and Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 1604845. Here is the abstract....

Cyber Warfare In Popular Culture

Posted on June 23, 2010
Xingan Li, University of Turku, has published Cyber Warfare: Jokes, Hoaxes, or Hypes, at 9 The IUP Journal of Cyber Law 7-16 (February/May 2010). Here is the abstract. Cyber warfare is increasingly listed alongside nuclear, chemical and biological weapons as...

Julie Hilden on the Libel Law of the 'Net

Posted on June 22, 2010
Julie Hilden on why the development of the Internet suggests libel law should be federal law. She says in part, Over time, the idea that your reputation exists only -- or at least primarily -- where you live, or have...

Libel Law and Science In the UK and Ireland

Posted on June 22, 2010
From cearta.ie, the wonderful blog run by Eoin O'Dell, a post discussing the chilling effect of current UK and Irish libel law on scientific debate.

Channel 4's Costs In Defamation Suit Nearly Two Million Pounds

Posted on June 22, 2010
Channel 4 says it spent 1.7 million pounds over two years defending itself and its documentary on the Jackson family against the defamation lawsuit brought by Matthew Fiddes, money which it cannot recoup. Mr. Fiddes' law firm brought the suit...

The Policy of Copyright Law

Posted on June 21, 2010
Michael J. Madison, University of Pittsburg School of Law, has published Beyond Creativity: Copyright as Knowledge Law, forthcoming in Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law. Here is the abstract. The Supreme Court?s copyright jurisprudence of the last 100 years...

What Artists and Scholars Think About When They Think About Intellectual Property Law

Posted on June 21, 2010
Jessica M. Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, has published Harvesting Intellectual Property. Here is the abstract. It has become commonplace among intellectual property scholars and policy makers concerned with promoting innovation to dispute the reasonableness of laws that protect intellectual...

Harmonizing IP Law

Posted on June 21, 2010
Graeme B. Dinwoodie, University of Oxford Faculty of Law, has published Remarks: 'One Size Fits All': Consolidation and Difference in Intellectual Property Law, in Horizontal Issues in Intellectual Property Law, Uncovering the Matrix (A. Kur ed., Cheltenham: Elgar Publishing, 2010)...

Channel 4 No Longer Faces Defamation Suit From Former Jackson Bodyguard

Posted on June 21, 2010
Matthew Fiddes, Michael Jackson's former bodyguard, has abandoned his libel lawsuit against Channel 4, his lawyer says. The attorney read from a statement which indicated Mr. Fiddes now says the documentary "was not faked". Read more here in a BBC...

S/he Won the "Nobel" Of What? Would You Like To Restate That?

Posted on June 18, 2010
Various organizations, foundations, and media like to dub awards the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in whatever. As the Nobel Foundation is careful to remind them, that phrase is trademarked. Read more here.

I Can Has Moolah

Posted on June 18, 2010
The New York Times notes the popularity of the website I Can Has Cheezburger and its spinoffs here, and points out that success comes from the ability of the site's founder, Ben Huh, and his staff to make money by...

The FCC Opens For Comment on Its National Broadband Plan

Posted on June 18, 2010
From the New York Times, an article on the FCC's National Broadband Plan comment period.

Erlinder Released

Posted on June 17, 2010
The AP reports that a Rwandan court has granted bail to C. Peter Erlinder, the William Mitchell law professor arrested last month on charges of promoting genocide. He is apparently free to leave Rwanda but must let the court know...

Supreme Court: City Search Of Officer's Text Messages Reasonable

Posted on June 17, 2010
The Supreme Court has ruled against a police officer who maintained that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated when the company that provided text messaging services provided access to his messages and his employer violated his rights by reviewing the...

Reconciling Patent Law and the Internet

Posted on June 17, 2010
Jeanne C. Fromer, Fordham Law School, has published The Compatibility of Patent Law and the Internet, at 78 Fordham Law Review 2783 (2010). Here is the abstract. Much ink has been spilled and many bits have been used discussing what...

The Expanding Role of Online Content Providers

Posted on June 17, 2010
Tarleton L. Gillespie, Cornell University Department of Communication, has published The Politics of 'Platforms', in volume 12 of New Media & Society. Here is the abstract. Online content providers such as YouTube are carefully positioning themselves to users, clients, advertisers,...

The Law of Cybermarks

Posted on June 17, 2010
Dan L. Burk, University of California, Irvine School of Law, has published Cybermarks, in volume 91 of the Minnesota Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract. The commercial development of the Internet has been punctuated with legal disputes over the....

Jon Gaunt Begins Courtroom Battle With Ofcom

Posted on June 16, 2010
Lawyers for former talk show host Jon Gaunt began his response to regulator Ofcom in court yesterday by claiming that the word "Nazi" has entered the language as slang and no longer has solely historical connotations. Mr. Gaunt lost his...

Applying Critical Race Feminism To Patent Law and the Public Domain

Posted on June 16, 2010
Laura A. Foster, UCLA, has published Situating Patent Law and the Public Domain, in volume 20 of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. Here is the abstract. This Article contributes to theorizing of the public domain by identifying and...

Reactions To the White Paper

Posted on June 16, 2010
From the New York Times, coverage of comments and reactions to the FCC's White Paper and plans to sell off spectrum.

FCC's White Paper on National Broadband Plan Capacity

Posted on June 15, 2010
The FCC has released a white paper containing its "capacity analysis behind the National Broadband Plan recommendations for the deployment and operation of a nationwide 4G wireless public safety network that allows first responders to seamlessly communicate across geographies and...

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