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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Takedown Notices Under the DMCA

Posted on February 15, 2010
Michael Murtagh, University of California Hastings College of the Law, has published "The FCC, the DMCA, and Why Takedown Notices are Not Enough," at 61 Hastings Law Journal 233 (2009). Here is the abstract. In December of 2008, the Recording...

Hong Kong's Digital Copyright Reform Regime

Posted on February 15, 2010
Peter K. Yu, Drake University Law School, has published "Digital Copyright Reform and Legal Transplants in Hong Kong," in volume 48 of the University of Louisville Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract. Since the mid-1990s, countries have struggled to...

New Copyright Blog

Posted on February 13, 2010
Check out the Exclusive Rights Blog, which covers copyright law, particularly in Africa and Asia. The author, Shourin Sen, was a professional musician before becoming an attorney.

Google Zaps Music Blogs Citing Infringement; Not So Fast, Say Bloggers

Posted on February 13, 2010
Google has deleted a number of music blogs, citing repeated infringement or infringement claims, but the bloggers receiving letters of explanation from the Internet search giant say it has acted without checking out the facts. Some bloggers say they have...

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Third Circuit Hears Cell Phone Records Privacy Case

Posted on February 13, 2010
From the Feb. 11 issue of the New York Times, an editorial on cell phones and the 4th Amendment, and more from the Philadelphia Inquirer on the case discussed (but not named, either in the article or the editorial). What's...

Tenth Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Defamation Suit Against Novelist John Grisham, Co-Defendants

Posted on February 10, 2010
The 10th Circuit has upheld the dismissal of a defamation suit against John Grisham and his co-defendants brought by a district attorney, a police officer, and a criminologist who were instrumental in the convictions of two men first convicted and...

What the BBC Pays Its On-Air Talent

Posted on February 09, 2010
From the BBC, salaries for its tv and radio broadcasters.

Regulating Speech About Off-Label Uses of Prescription Drugs

Posted on February 09, 2010
Margaret Gilhooley, Seton Hall University School of Law, has published "Drug Safety and Commercial Speech: Television Advertisements and Reprints on Off-Label Uses." Here is the abstract. This paper examines how the constitutional protections for commercial speech have limited the ability...

The FCC's Openness Principles and Content Providers

Posted on February 08, 2010
Rob Frieden, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law, has published "Why the FCC?s Proposed Openness Principles Cannot and Should Not Apply to Internet Application and Content Providers." Here is the abstract. The Federal Communications Commission (?FCC?) has issued a...

Press Complaints Commission Criticized

Posted on February 08, 2010
Both Sir Ken Macdonald, former Director of Public Prosecutions, and Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, are highly critical of the Press Complaints Commission, the group presently charged with overseeing regulation of the British print media. Sir Ken told a...

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation and the Blogger

Posted on February 08, 2010
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on an incident involving the National Merit Scholarship Corporation and a blogger; the NMSC objected to what it calls the blogger's publication of "proprietary information" on her blog and implied it would seek legal...

And Starring As Los Angeles....

Posted on February 07, 2010
From the New York Times, how other states audition to play California. Tax credits and computer animation help out.

What Is the FCC's Regulatory Over the Internet

Posted on February 04, 2010
James B. Speta, Northwestern University School of Law, has published "The Shaky Foundations of the Regulated Internet," in volume 8 of the Journal of Telecommunication and High Technology Law (2010). The Federal Communications Commission's order directing Comcast to cease certain...

Australian Judge Rules That "Men at Work" Song Infringes "Kookaburra"

Posted on February 04, 2010
The band "Men at Work" has lost a plagiarism suit. The Australian judge hearing the infringement suit brought by Larrikin Publishing against the group has ruled that the song "Down Under" impermissibly quotes from Marion Sinclair's song "Kookaburra," written in...

Host Sues BBC For Age and Sex Discrimination

Posted on February 04, 2010
BBC on-air host Miriam O'Reilly (Countryfile) is planning to sue the network for age and sex discrimination after it cancelled her contract, as well as those of other female hosts over the age of 40. The network has also let...

Oh, Mel...

Posted on February 04, 2010
Mel Gibson perpetuates his fifteen minutes of problems with the media with this remark after his answer to an interviewer who asked about his anti-Semitic tirade four years ago. Link (with beep) here.

Whither the Tweet?

Posted on February 03, 2010
FindLaw's Julie Hilden discusses a recent Illinois trial court case in which a judge ruled that a management company had no cause of action against a former tenant for her tweets about it. Did the judge make the correct legal...

Effects of the Google Book Settlement

Posted on February 03, 2010
Pamela Samuelson, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, has published "Google Book Search and the Future of Books in Cyberspace," forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review. Here is the abstract. The Google Book Search (GBS) initiative once promised to...

Online Copyright Enforcement Trends Around the World

Posted on February 03, 2010
Jeremy F. DeBeer, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, and Christopher D. Clemmer, Gowling Lafleur Henderson, have published "Global Trends in Online Copyright Enforcement: A Non-Neutral Role for Network Intermediaries?" in volume 49 of Jurimetrics (2009)...

Controversy Over Boston Police Interpretation Of Privacy, Cellphone Videorecordings

Posted on February 02, 2010
Debate has erupted over Boston law enforcement interpretations of whether individuals witnessing police behavior or arrests may record that behavior on their cellphones. Because Massachusetts is now a "two party" state, requiring the permission of both the person(s) being taped...

BBC Examining Image, Treatment of LGBT Persons On Network

Posted on February 01, 2010
The BBC is undertaking an investigation into portrayals of LGBT individuals on tv and radio and via its Internet presence. Peter Tatchell reports in the Guardian that the network has received decades of criticism, and is finally examining not just...

FDA On Physician Comments Concerning Unapproved Drugs

Posted on February 01, 2010
The FDA has sent a letter to dermatologist and researcher Leslie Baumann about comments she made to the media concerning a drug before its approval. The FDA noted that Dr. Baumann was "an investigator on a clinical trial for Dysport...

CBS Says No To Gay Dating Site's Request To Air Ad During Super Bowl

Posted on January 29, 2010
In the wake of controversy over CBS's agreement to air the anti-abortion ad featuring Tim Tebow and his mother during the Super Bowl, the network has refused the request of gay dating site ManCrunch.com to air its ad. Although CBS...

Judge Rules That Former TalkSport Host May Challenge Ofcom Ruling Over On Air Comments

Posted on January 28, 2010
Radio host Jon Gaunt will be allowed to challenge Ofcom's ruling that he breached the broadcast code by calling London councilman Michael Stark a "health Nazi" and other things on air, a London court has ruled. Mr. Justice Stadlen accepted...

Dominique de Villepin Acquitted

Posted on January 28, 2010
Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has been acquitted of defamation charges arising out of the "Clearstream" scandal. He was accused of slandering current French President and former Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy. Read more here in a...

Chicago Tribune Files Lawsuit Over U of I Admissions Lists

Posted on January 28, 2010
The Chicago Tribune is suing the University of Illinois to gain access to the names of the parents of applicants to the school, and to the names of persons who might have lobbied the university on behalf of those applicants....

"Carlos the Jackal" Sues For Right To Review Upcoming Documentary

Posted on January 26, 2010
From the Washington Post, news that Ilich Ram�rez S�nchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, is suing for the right to review a new documentary about him being produced for the French network Canal Plus. His attorney Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, who is...

Judge Reduces $2 Million Award In Music Downloading Case To $54,000

Posted on January 25, 2010
Judge Michael Davis has reduced that multimillion-dollar award against Jammie Thomas-Rasset, who was found liable for dowloading 24 songs illegally, to $54,000. Judge Davis found the $2 million award "outrageous." Here's discussion from around the cybersphere from the BBC and...

Analyzing the Progress of the Performance Rights Act

Posted on January 25, 2010
Brian Richard Day, George Washington Law School, has published "The Super Brawl: The History and Future of the Sound Recording Performance Right," at 16 Michigan Telecommications and Technology Law Review 1 (2009). Here is the abstract. On February 4, 2009,...

The Future of Privacy

Posted on January 25, 2010
Paul M. Schwartz, University of California Berkeley School of Law, reviews Lawrence Friedman's Guarding Life and Daniel Solove's The Future of Reputation in "From Victorian Secrets to Cyberspace Shaming," at 76 University of Chicago Law Review 1407 (2009)...

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