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Second Circuit Affirms Refusal To Quash Subpoena In Music Downloading Case

Posted on May 04, 2010
The Second Circuit has affirmed a lower court's refusal to quash a subpoena served on an ISP to disclose the identities of anonymous users alleged to be downloading music in violation of a plaintiff's copyrights. The case is Arista v....

"Jersey Shore" Lawsuit Is On

Posted on May 04, 2010
From the AP: that lawsuit filed by three of Eugene LaVergne's clients against MTV show Jersey Shore producers will proceed.

Defendant in Linda Stein Murder Receives 25 To Life Sentence

Posted on May 04, 2010
Linda Stein's personal assistant Natavia Lowery has received a sentence of 25 years to life for killing Ms. Stein in 2007. Ms. Stein, who managed the musical group the Ramones and was at one time married to Seymour Sire, president...

The TV Judge and Tort Reform

Posted on May 04, 2010
Joshua Wilson and Erin Ackerman have published "TV Judges and the Civil Law Narrative," as a Western Political Science Association 2010 Annual Meeting Paper. Here is the abstract. This is a collaborative study examining the relationship between popular reality-based judge...

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Digital Multi-Media and Privacy Law

Posted on May 04, 2010
Jacqueline D. Lipton, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, has published "Digital Multi-Media and the Limits of Privacy Law," forthcoming in the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law. Here is the abstract. While digital video and multi-media technologies...

Ronald Coase's Paper Fifty Years On

Posted on May 03, 2010
Thomas W. Hazlett, George Mason School of Law, David Porter, Chapman University, Department of Business and Economics and George Mason Department of Economics, and Vernon L. Smith, Chapman University Economic Science Institute and School of Law, have published Radio Spectrum...

Coverage of Dissenting Appellate Opinions in the Media

Posted on May 03, 2010
Michael F. Salamone, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Political Science, has published Federal Court Unity and Media Coverage of Racial Integration Cases, as a Western Political Science Association 2010 Annual Meeting Paper. Here is the abstract...

Second Circuit Vacates, Remands Salinger Copyright Dispute

Posted on May 03, 2010
The Second Circuit, has remanded the Salinger copyright case, Salinger v. Colting, to the district court. We hold that, although the District Court applied our Circuit's longstanding standard for preliminary injunctions in copyright cases, our Circuit's standard is inconsistent with...

Money, Money, Money, Money....

Posted on May 03, 2010
Via the New York Times, what the heads of media conglomerates get paid.

Web Providers and Web Users: Are the Games Beginning?

Posted on May 03, 2010
From Kevin J. O'Brien of the New York Times, a piece on the debate over treatment of web users on the net. Notes Mr. O'Brien, "Proponents of the current system ? called network neutrality ? see that principle as a...

More On the Libel Suit Filed By Karin Calvo-Goller

Posted on April 29, 2010
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, a discussion of the libel suit filed by Karin N. Calvo-Goller over a book review of her work posted by Joseph H.H. Weiler. Ms. Calvo-Goller took issue with the review written by another academic,...

Federal Judge Tells University of Wyoming To Allow William Ayers To Speak

Posted on April 28, 2010
A federal district court judge has ruled that the University of Wyoming cannot prohibit a planned speech by Professor William Ayers of the University of Illinois at Chicago, because of its concerns over possible violence. Judge William Downes noted that...

Evaluating the Graduated Response Approach in the Entertainment Industry

Posted on April 28, 2010
Peter K. Yu, Drake University Law School, has published The Graduated Response, in volume 62 of the Florida Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract. In the past few years, the entertainment industry has deployed aggressive tactics toward individual end-users,...

A Book Review of Lawrence Lessig's Latest

Posted on April 28, 2010
Edward Lee, Ohio State University College of Law, has published "Remixing Lessig," at 6 I/S 41 (2010). Here is the abstract. This book review analyzes - and remixes - Lawrence Lessig's last copyright-related book, "Remix." It takes the central ideas,...

A Book Review of Lawrence Lessig's Latest

Copyright and Vampires

Posted on April 28, 2010
Jacqueline D. Lipton, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, has published "Copyright?s Twilight Zone: Digital Copyright Lessons from the Vampire Blogosphere," in volume 70 of Maryland Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract. Web 2.0 technologies, characterized by user-generated...

Former Cyclist Wins Defamation Case Against Australian Newspaper

Posted on April 27, 2010
Former world ranked cyclist and Olympic hopeful Mark French has won a defamation case against the Australian paper the Herald Sun, which called him a drug cheat after he was banned from the sport for two years in 2004. The...

Ofcom Raps BBC Over Use Of Real Cell Phone Number In TV Show

Posted on April 27, 2010
Ofcom has upheld a complaint from a businesswoman regarding the broadcasting of a real cell phone number on the drama"EastEnders." Lisa Edwards' real cell phone number appeared during an episode of the show; as a result she received numerous text...

Redbox Settles With Fox, Universal Over DVD Rentals

Posted on April 27, 2010
From the National Law Journal, news that Redbox, the movie rental company, has agreed to settle its antitrust dispute with Twentieth Century Fox and Universal. Under the settlement, the company will wait 28 days before putting the studios' newly released...

Blogging As Norm

Posted on April 26, 2010
Jacqueline D. Lipton, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, has published What Blogging Might Teach About Cybernorms, forthcoming in the Akron Intellectual Property Law Journal. Here is the abstract. Since the dawn of the information age, scholars have debated...

What You Can't Show On Television

Posted on April 26, 2010
The New York Times' Ross Douthat on Comedy Central's scrapping of images of the Prophet Muhammad, after what seems like very violent warnings about their use emerged from one particular website.

Supreme Court Will Hear California Video Game Statute Appeal

Posted on April 26, 2010
The Supreme Court has granted cert in Entertainment Software Association v. Schwartzenegger, the violent video games case. The Ninth Circuit had struck down the statute at issue in this case, California Civil Code Sections 1746-1746.5. We hold that the Act,...

DVD For a Friday: Perry Mason and the Case of the Media Mogul

Posted on April 23, 2010
The new set of Perry Mason DVDs (season 5, volume 1) includes an episode called "The Case of the Jealous Journalist," with guest stars Linden Chiles, as Joe Davies, new publisher of the fictional "Los Angeles Chronicle," who takes over...

The "Crush Video" Ruling

Posted on April 22, 2010
Adam Liptak on U.S. v. Stevens.

More on Libel Tourism

Posted on April 22, 2010
"British Libel Law Chills U.S. Scholars' Speech, But Change Is Afoot," in the Chronicle of Higher Education, discusses the current state of defamation law in the UK with regard to "libel tourism."

Psyching Out IP

Posted on April 21, 2010
Jeanne C. Fromer, Fordham Law School, has published A Psychology of Intellectual Property, in volume 104 of Northwestern University Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract. This Article analyzes how the strict standard for protectability in patent law - novelty,...

The Fair Use Defense of Free Speech and Parody Under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act

Posted on April 21, 2010
Monique B. Lampke has published Why the Fair Use Defense of Free Speech or Parody Under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act Needs Judicial Review by the United States Supreme Court. Here is the abstract. This Article suggests the time is...

Government Speech By Medium In the Internet Age

Posted on April 21, 2010
Nathan Murphy, University of Connecticut, has published Context, Not Content: Medium-Based Press Clause Restrictions on Government Speech in the Internet Age , at 7 University of Denver Sports & Entertainment Law Journal 26 (2009). Here is the abstract...

Supreme Court Strikes Down Statute At Issue in "Crush Video" Case

Posted on April 20, 2010
The Supreme Court has ruled that a federal statute, 18 U.S. C. �48,which criminalizes "the commercial creation, sale, or possession of certain depictions of animal cruelty" is unconstitutional. Robert Stevens had challenged his conviction under the statute for the sale...

Bond Film On Hold Because of MGM Financial Problems

Posted on April 20, 2010
The BBC reports that planning for the next James Bond film, which would star Daniel Craig, is postponed. MGM, which was to back the film, is in financial difficulties. Read more here.

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