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District Judge Grants Summary Judgment In "Gangland" Defamation Case

Posted on June 15, 2010
A district court judge granted summary judgment for defendants in a defamation plaintiff's action against A&E Television Network in a case in which the plaintiff alleged that the network's show "Gangland" defamed him and put his life in danger. The...

Hey, Watch This!

Posted on June 15, 2010
From the NY Times, how the lure of a YouTube audience makes teens, well, seem more reckless.

No Cannibals, Please; We're Michiganders

Posted on June 15, 2010
States want a positive message along with the offer of film tax credits. This New York Times article explains how they choose among film scripts to try to make certain their scenery and citizens are shown in the best possible...

British Court of Appeals Upholds Lower Court Ruling Allowing Judge Alone To Hear Defamation Case

Posted on June 14, 2010
The British Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court decision that a defamation action brought in a case involving a Channel 4 documentary about Tito Jackson will be heard by a judge rather than a jury. The case also...

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Digital Game Environments and Cultural Diversity

Posted on June 14, 2010
Christoph B. Graber, University of Lucerne, and Mira Burri-Nenova, World Trade Institute, University of Bern Law School, have published Preface to 'Governance of Digital Game Environments and Cultural Diversity', in Governance of Digital Game Environments and Cultural Diversity: Transidciplinary Enquiries...

Jurors and the Internet

Posted on June 14, 2010
Gareth S. Lacy, University of Washington School of Law, has published Should Jurors Use the Internet? Here is the abstract. During trials jurors are increasingly using cell phones and other devices capable of accessing the Internet. Courts are responding by...

Ownership of the Spawn

Posted on June 14, 2010
From Findlaw, an update on the long running battle between Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane over who owns the copyright to characters in the "Spawn" series.

Free Expression and the Internet

Posted on June 14, 2010
Angela Daly, European University Institute, Department of Law, has published The Internet, and Rationales for Free Expression. Here is the abstract. The changes to society brought by the Internet have prompted a challenge to orthodoxy in a number of areas...

Off-Campus Student Speech and Public School Control

Posted on June 09, 2010
The Third Circuit recently reheard two student speech cases, Snyder v. Blue Mountain School District, and Layshock v. Hermitage School District, in order to try to reconcile opposing lower court decisions regarding whether and on what grounds public schools can...

Freedom of Information Law in Russia and the U.S.

Posted on June 09, 2010
Graham Frederick Dumas has published Comparative Analysis of Russian and American Freedom of Information Legislation. Here is the abstract. A brief study of the new Russian freedom of information law (No. 8-FZ, Feb. 9, 2009) through the lens of the...

Privacy and Photography in Public

Posted on June 09, 2010
David Rolph, University of Sydney, Faculty of Law, has published The Mechanical Eye: Looking, Seeing, Photographing, Publishing, in Courting the Media: Contemporary Perspectives on Media and Law (Geoffrey Sykes ed.; Nova Publishers, forthcoming). Here is the abstract...

New Report Assesses Impact of Tax Incentives On U.K. Film Industry, Warns Of Cutbacks

Posted on June 08, 2010
A report prepared by Oxford Economics says that if the UK film industry loses the tax incentives it presently receives, it would suffer dramatically. Currently, according to the report, the industry is withstanding the recession, but things could change if...

Professor Brett Frischmann's Remarks On the Internet Before the FCC, April 12, 2010

Posted on June 08, 2010
Brett M. Frischmann, Loyola University of Chicago, Law School, has made the remarks he delivered before the FCC on April 12, 2010 available via SSRN. Here is the abstract. In this brief comment, filed on April 12, 2010 in the...

FCC Announces Updated Agenda For Workshop On Emergency Alerting, June 10th

Posted on June 08, 2010
From the FCC, an announcement of an updated agenda for the agency's Workshop on Emergency Alerting. The Federal Communications Commission?s (FCC?s) Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency?s (FEMA?s) National Continuity Programs (NCP) today...

Copyright and Its Metaphors

Posted on June 07, 2010
Stefan Larsson, Lund University, has published Law, Deviation and Paradigmatic Change: Copyright and its Metaphors, in Technology For Facilitating Humanity and Combating Social Deviations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Migual Garcia-Ruiz et al., eds; forthcoming)...

Public Charities and Political Speech

Posted on June 07, 2010
Samuel D. Brunson, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, has published Rethinking Public Charities and Political Speech as Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2010-002. Here is the abstract. As a precondition to maintaining its tax-exempt status,...

Update: U.S. Law Professor Charged With Denying Genocide

Posted on June 06, 2010
C. Peter Erlinder, the law professor who flew to Rwanda last month to see his client Victoire Ingabire, has been charged with denying the Rwandan genocide of 1994, says the AP. If convicted, he faces up to 25 years in...

Blogging, Several Years, On, From the Trenches

Posted on June 06, 2010
NY Times readers weigh in: what is a blog, anyway, and does anyone care?

Turkish Telecommunications Board Limits Access To Google Services

Posted on June 06, 2010
The Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review reports that the Turkish Telecommunications Presidency (TIB), which regulates communications in the country, has now cut access to some of Google's services, including translation and Google docs. The agency cites "legal reasons...

Ads and Elections

Posted on June 04, 2010
Christine Chambers Goodman, Pepperdine University School of Law, has published M)Ad Men: Using Persuasion Factors in Media Advertisements to Prevent a ?Tyranny of the Majority? on Ballot Propositions. Here is the abstract. Some find the rise in direct democracy to...

Copyright Statutory Damages and Free Speech Concerns

Posted on June 04, 2010
Alan E. Garfield, Widener University School of Law, has published Calibrating Copyright Statutory Damages to Promote Speech. It is forthcoming in the Florida State University Law Review. Here is the abstract. Copyright and the First Amendment exist in tension...

"I Love You Phillip Morris" Won't Be Released Yet, Says Judge

Posted on June 03, 2010
A judge has granted the request of studio EuropaCorp to stop release of the film "I Love You Phillip Morris" temporarily on the grounds that Consolidated Pictures Group, which is distributing the movie in the U.S. still has not paid...

Mexican Government To Extradite Former "Survivor" Producer In Death of Wife

Posted on June 03, 2010
Mexican authorities have begun proceedings to extradite L.A. producer Bruce Beresford-Redman, who has worked on such shows as "Survivor," in connection on charges that he killed his wife Monica in April. Her body was discovered on the grounds of a...

British University Fines Student, Orders Him To Take Down Dating Website

Posted on June 02, 2010
University College, London, has advised a graduating student to take down his immensely popular site Fitfinder, telling him it was a distraction and ordering him to pay a fine for "bringing the college into disrepute." The site was advertised as...

Analyzing the FCC's New Net Neutrality Principle

Posted on June 02, 2010
George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies, have published Non-Discrimination or Just Non-Sense: A Law and Economics Review of the FCC?s New Net Neutrality Principle. Here is the abstract...

Canada Discusses New Copyright Law

Posted on June 02, 2010
The Canadian Parliament is considering a new piece of legislation that would address the question of digital piracy. The Copyright Modernization Act would bring the nation's IP scheme into compliance with WIPO and back into the U.S.'s good graces, according...

FCC Survey On Broadband Speed

Posted on June 01, 2010
The FCC has published the results of its survey on broadband speeds and U.S. users' knowledge of their connection speed. The agency notes that 80 percent of users do not know their connection speed. According to a PEW survey done...

The Way They Do Things Up There In Alaska

Posted on June 01, 2010
Author Joe McGinniss is getting a primer, up front and personal, about Alaskan property law from Wasilla's local paper, the Frontiersman. The writer has moved to the area to write a book about Sarah Palin. After all, the Palins, Mr....

Supreme Court Refuses Appeal By Death Row Inmate In Spite of Juror Misconduct

Posted on June 01, 2010
The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from death row inmate Brandon Basham, convicted of the 2002 kidnap and murder of Alice Donovan. The jury foreperson in his case made numerous phone calls to the media and to...

U. S. Law Professor Arrested In Rwanda

Posted on June 01, 2010
C. Peter Erlinder, a professor at the William Mitchell College of Law and an advocate for human rights, has been arrested and jailed in Rwanda. He was in the country to see a client, Victoire Ingabire, who opposes the current...

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