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"Undercover Boss"
Posted on March 22, 2010From the New York Times, a review of the new reality tv show, "Undercover Boss."
Ethical Issues and Communications On the Internet
Posted on March 22, 2010David C. Hricik, Mercer University School of Law, has published "Communications and the Internet: Facebook, E-Mail, and Beyond." Here is the abstract. Ethical issues arise with the use of communicating over the Internet, whether by e-mail, social networking sites, or...
YouTube Versus Viacom
Posted on March 22, 2010From the New York Times, a review of the YouTube v. Viacom copyright litigation.
California Appellate Court Upholds Lower Court Denial Of Anti-SLAPP Motion In Website Lawsuit
Posted on March 22, 2010A California state appellate court has affirmed a trial court's denial of defendants' anti-SLAPP motion on the grounds that the defendants' speech did not arise in the context of a public issue. The plaintiff, an aspiriing entertainer, maintained a website;...
More About Hate Speech On the Internet
Posted on March 22, 2010Raphael Cohen-Almagor, University of Hull, has published "Countering Hate on the Internet - A Rejoinder," at 2 Amsterdam Law Forum 125 (2010). Here is the abstract. Steve Newman of York University wrote a reply to my ?Holocaust Denial Is A...
New Scholarly Books
Posted on March 22, 2010From the Chronicle of Higher Education's New Books of Interest List: Joshua D. Atkinson, Alternative Media and Politics of Resistance: A Communication Perspective (Peter Lang Publishing), $99.95; $32.95 paper. Robin D. Barnes, Outrageous Invasions: Celebrities' Private Libes, Media and the...
Re-Examining Identity Based Uses of Copyrighted Works
Posted on March 22, 2010Jennifer E. Rothman, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, has published "Liberating Copyright: Thinking Beyond Free Speech," in volume 95 of Cornell Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract. Scholars have often turned to the First Amendment to limit the scope...
Assessing the Limits of Government Speech
Posted on March 22, 2010Randall P. Bezanson, University of Iowa College of Law, has published "The Manner of Government Speech," in Denver University Law Review (Spring 2010). Here is the abstract. The government speech doctrine has evolved into a government speech forum doctrine in...
Tweeting Defamation
Posted on March 22, 2010Leslie Yalof Garfield, Pace University School of Law, has published Birds of a Feather: Libel and Slander in the Age of Twitter. Here is the abstract. This article focuses on the whether defamatory text messages should be treated as libel...
Capturing, Recording, and Transmitting Digital Cell Phone Videos
Posted on March 19, 2010Seth F. Kreimer, University of Pennsylvania Law School, has published "Pervasive Image Capture and the First Amendment: Memory, Discourse, and the Right to Record," forthcoming in volume 159 of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract...
The Google Books Settlement and Antitrust
Posted on March 19, 2010Einer Elhauge, Harvard Law School, has published "Framing the Antitrust Issues in the Google Books Settlement," in GCP: The Antitrust Chronicle (October, 2009). Here is the abstract. Proper analysis of the Google books settlement requires framing the issues correctly in...
Think It, Patent It
Posted on March 18, 2010Andrew W. Torrance, University of Kansas School of Law, has published "Neurobiology and Patenting Thought," at 50 IDEA: The Journal of Law and Technology 27 (2009). Here is the abstract. Many have argued that thought should constitute per se unpatentable...
The FCC's Rollout Of Its Broadband Access Plan
Posted on March 17, 2010Reaction to the FCC's broadband plan.
The "Two Cultures" Nature of Patent Law
Posted on March 17, 2010Peter Lee, University of California, Davis School of Law, has published "Patent Law and the Two Cultures," in volume 120 of the Yale Law Journal (2010). Here is the abstract. A half century ago, author and physicist C.P. Snow warned...
And Privacy Vanishes
Posted on March 17, 2010From the New York Times, how the new technology nibbles away, little by little, our privacy (but we suspected that).
Judge Lifts TRO On Giraffe Attack Story
Posted on March 16, 2010A Louisiana trial judge has decided that that a website's story about a fictional giraffe attack at the Global Wildlife Center in Folsom, Louisiana, is satire and thus protected speech, even though a local wildlife park received phone calls from...
FCC Releases Broadband Plan; Holds Open Meeting March 16th
Posted on March 16, 2010The FCC released its plan for bringing broadband to the masses yesterday. Today, the masses react. Here's a story from NPR discussing both plan and reaction. Here's a link to the open meeting, going on now.
Defining Pornography
Posted on March 16, 2010John Copeland Nagle, Notre Dame Law School, has published "Pornography as Pollution," as Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 10-01. Here is the abstract. Pornography is often compared to pollution. But little effort has been made to consider what it...
Lawyers' Group Tells Straw It Will Go To Court Over Decision To Cap Fees
Posted on March 16, 2010Lawyers For Media Standards, a lobbying group, has told Jack Straw it will go to court if he does not rescind his decision to cap lawyers' fees at 10 percent in successful libel cases. The group says he made the...
Communications Regulation On the Isle of Man
Posted on March 15, 2010Ewan Sutherland, LINK Centre, has published "A Response to the Consulation by the Isle of Man Communications Commission on Proposals for a New Framework for Communications Regulation." Here is the abstract. The Communications Commission of the Isle of Man has...
Australian Law and Racist Speech
Posted on March 15, 2010Dian Thampapillai, Deakin University, has published "Low Level Racist Speech: Beyond Law's Reach?" Here is the abstract. The nature of racist speech is changing as social mores on matters of race and multiculturalism evolve. However, the underlying intent of the...
The Power of Discovery
Posted on March 15, 2010How the small network Discovery competes with the big guys.
Telling Your Brother, Not "Big Brother," Where You Are
Posted on March 15, 2010From the New York Times, an article on Foursquare, an app that allows individuals to use their cellphones to tell selected others their locations.
Irina Krupnik Sues Over Use of Photo In "Couples Retreat" Scene
Posted on March 12, 2010Former model Irina Krupnik, who now works as a makeup artist, is suing over the use of her photograph in the 2009 film "Couples Retreat," which stars Vince Vaughn and Kristen Bell. She alleges that her photo, originally a "commonplace...
"Mad Men" Goes Mattel
Posted on March 12, 2010Mattel is licensing the rights to some of the characters on the popular show "Mad Men" in order to create a line of "Barbie" dolls: Don Draper, wife Betty, Roger Sterling, and Roger's companion, Joan Holloway. Read more here.
Leading British Judge Says Contradictory Legal Systems Have Led To Unpredictability, "Inhibiting Effects" on Free Expression, In UK
Posted on March 12, 2010Mr. Justice Eady, a noted British libel law judge, indicated in a speech before a group at City University that contradictory decisions made by the European Court of Human Rights and the English judiciary has confused the question of defamation...
ABC Under Fire For Two-Second Clip In Toyota Piece
Posted on March 11, 2010ABC is reversing on its use of a two second clip in an investigative piece showing rapid acceleration in a Toyota. Reporter Brian Ross and Professor David Gilbert are discussing the phenomenon while Mr. Ross drives the Toyota, and the...
School Webcam Privacy Lawsuit Could Be Settled
Posted on March 11, 2010Local Philadelphia media outlets report that the lawsuit between parents of a suburban teen alleging he was spied off campus on by school officials via a school webcam and the school district might be settled before the trial, which is...
Blogger's Second Trial Ends In Mistrial; Jury Unable To Agree On Verdict
Posted on March 11, 2010The AP reports that a blogger's second trial has ended in a mistrial. Hal Turner is accused of threatening three judges via statements published on his blog in 2008. Here's more from the New York Daily News.
Irish Further Detain Seven Suspected of Plotting To Murder Swedish Cartoonist
Posted on March 11, 2010Irish authorities are extending the detention of seven persons linked to a plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist, Lars Vilks, who drew pictures offensive to Muslims. The seven have also been linked to Colleen LaRose, the U.S. citizen recently arrested...
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If a person defames me and threatens me to pay a bill that they made and it is posted to others besides myself, can I sue ?
The documentation of your actions in this case pretty much preclude any legal ac...
Is it libel to write blog posts and/or online reviews about a local business that defames one's reputation?
Libel is the form of defamation expressed in fixed-- usually written form. Sland...
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