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News International Admission on Dismissal of NOTW Editor Clive Goodman

Posted on January 11, 2010
News International, the former employer of Clive Goodman, former royal editor at News of the World, who was convicted of hacking Prince Harry's phone, says now that it paid Mr. Goodman a settlement because it failed to follow proper procedures...

Is Ofcom's Position on Doorstepping Reasonable?

Posted on January 11, 2010
The Guardian's Jonathan Maitland on Ofcom regulation of "doorstepping" (ambush or unscheduled interviews).

Prop 8 Lawsuit Arguments Open Today; Camera Issue Still Unsettled

Posted on January 11, 2010
The argument over whether cameras can broadcast the arguments in the suit challenging California's Proposition 8,which begins today, landed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week. The judge hearing the case, U. S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, said...

Producer Sues Fox News For Copyright Infringement Over Broadcast of Part of Debbie Rowe Interview

Posted on January 10, 2010
Producer F. Marc Schaffel says Fox News infringed his copyright on an interview with the former Mrs. Michael Jackson (Debbie Rowe) when it broadcast parts of the interview on Geraldo Rivera's show in July of 2009, and is suing the...

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Seventh Circuit Upholds Lower Court On Employee Speech Ruling

Posted on January 10, 2010
The Seventh Circuit has upheld a lower court ruling that a plaintiff state police officer's retailation complaint against his employer should be dismissed, but based not on the lower court's finding that the plaintiff's speech "was clearly related to and...

What To Do When the Subpoena Comes

Posted on January 09, 2010
Here's blogger Chris Elliott's account of his encounter with Special Agent Robert Flaherty over that TSA subpoena.

Looking At Digital Piracy and Pricing In P2P Networks

Posted on January 09, 2010
Michael Nwogugu has published "Digital Piracy And Content Pricing In 'Monitored Closed' Peer-To-Peer Networks." Here is the abstract. The main objectives of this article are a) to develop pricing schemes (for digital content) that reduce the information producers? losses from...

Data Protection, Privacy, and Security In the EU

Posted on January 08, 2010
Paolo Guarda, University of Trento Faculty of Law, has published "Data Protection, Information Privacy, and Security Measures: An Essay on the European and the Italian Legal Frameworks," at Ciberspazio e Diritto 65 (2008). Here is the abstract. The widespread diffusion...

Dealing With Internet Censorship In South Korea

Posted on January 07, 2010
Eric S. Fish, Yale Law School, has published "Is Internet Censorship Compatible with Democracy?: Legal Restrictions of Online Speech in South Korea," in Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law (forthcoming). Here is the abstract. This paper examines the...

The Cable Wars

Posted on January 07, 2010
For Newsweek, Daniel Gross takes a look at the current cable "turf wars," and how they leave consumers on the sidelines.

Julie Hilden On Twitter Defamation

Posted on January 07, 2010
FindLaw's Julie Hilden's dissects Sanford Siegal's defamation suit against Kim Kardashian over her "Cookie diet" Tweets.

Tennis Channel Files Complaint With FCC Over Comcast Tier Pricing

Posted on January 07, 2010
The Tennis Channel has complained to the FCC about treatment it says it is getting from Comcast. It alleges that Comcast is offering it on a different basis to its customers from other sports networks such as the Golf Channel,...

Polanski Requests To Be Sentenced In Absentia

Posted on January 07, 2010
Roman Polanski's attorney Chad Hummel has asked the judge overseeing the director's case to sentence him in absentia, but Judge Peter Espinoza says he still would like to be persuaded as to why such sentencing would be appropriate. Mr. Polanski...

International Federation of Journalists: 2009 a Deadly Year

Posted on January 07, 2010
The International Federation of Journalists reports on a deadly year for journalists: nearly 140 died while on the job or as a result of their professions in 2009.

Limiting the False Light Tort

Posted on January 07, 2010
James B. Lake, Stetson University College of Law, has published "Restraining False Light: Constitutional and Common Law Limits on a 'Troublesome Tort'," in volume 61 of the Federal Communications Law Journal (2009). Here is the abstract. The defamation tort is...

Student Rights in Off Campus Speech

Posted on January 06, 2010
Jacob Tabor, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, has published "Students' First Amendment Rights in the Age of the Internet: Off-Campus Cyberspeech and School Regulation," in volume 50 of the Boston College Law Review (2009). Here is...

Privacy and Copyright

Posted on January 06, 2010
Laura A. Heymann, William & Mary Law School, has published "How to Write a Life: Some Thoughts on Fixation and the Copyright/Privacy Divide," in volume 51 of the William & Mary Law Review (2009). Here is the abstract. Many individuals...

"Bulletproof" Websites Grow In Popularity, Finding Hosts Outside Europe

Posted on January 06, 2010
From the Guardian, a story on the migration of file sharing websites to China and other nations from Sweden, since the guilty verdict for the Pirate Bay founders.

FCC Hires "Survivor" Winner As Deputy Chief Of Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau

Posted on January 06, 2010
"Survivor" winner (from the 2006 edition) Yul Kwon has gone to work at the FCC. So, will he be listening sympathetically to complaints about reality shows? Here's more from NPR and an article on the Yale law grad from People...

Speech On the "Blurry Edges"

Posted on January 05, 2010
Lauren Amy Gelman, Stanford Law School, has published "Privacy, Free Speech, and 'Blurry-Edged' Social Networks," in volume 50 of Boston College Law Review (2009). Here is the abstract. Much of Internet-related scholarship over the past ten years has focused on...

Corporate Speech and Reputation

Posted on January 05, 2010
Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown University Law Center, has published "Fighting Freestyle: The First Amendment, Fairness and Corporate Reputation," at 50 Boston College Law Review 1457 (2009). Here is the abstract. There are three distinct groups who might want to engage in...

P. D. James Takes On BBC Director General

Posted on January 05, 2010
Author P. D. James (The Private Patient, The Lighthouse, Cover Her Face) as guest host of the BBC program Today got after BBC Director General Mark Thompson and asked him directly about what she considered exorbitant salaries being paid to...

Recognizing Falsity

Posted on January 04, 2010
Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law, has published "Social Epistemology, Holocaust Denial, and the Post-Millian Calculus," in Regulating Hate Speech: Context, Content and Remedies (Michael Herz & Peter Molnar, eds.; Cambridge University Press, 2010)...

Cha-Ching! New N.Y. C. Location Fees Cause L.A. Annoyance

Posted on January 04, 2010
The New York Times reports on film and tv producer objections to permit fees newly imposed by the city of New York for filming inside some city buildings. Producers, including those from Law & Order, say the new fees will...

Malaysian High Court Rules Non-Muslims May Use "Allah" As Translation For "God"

Posted on January 03, 2010
A Catholic newspaper has won its fight to use the word "Allah" as a translation of the word "God." The Malaysian High Court announced the decision last week, saying the government's ban of the use of the word by non-Muslims...

The Medicine of Reality TV

Posted on January 03, 2010
Chris Norris writes about Dr. Drew Pinsky for the New York Times here.

Police Arrest Intruder Who Breaks Into Danish Cartoonist's Home

Posted on January 02, 2010
The man who broke into Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard's home is being charged with attempted murder, sources said. Mr. Westergaard is the artist who drew the images of the Prophet Mohammed which caused such controversy four years ago. Police responded...

TSA Abandons Blogger Subpoenas

Posted on January 01, 2010
The Transportation Security Administration has abandoned its attempt to obtain information from two travel bloggers, Chris Elliott and Steve Frischling. It had subpoenaed them to find out who leaked information about a new directive issued in the wake of the...

Fox, Times Warner Cable Extend Talks Over Fees For Carriage

Posted on January 01, 2010
Fox (owned by News Corp) and Time Warner Cable have extended their talks over fees that Fox wants from Time Warner to carry its stations. The contract between the two media giants expired at midnight New Year's Eve, but negotiators...

Marvel Shareholders OK Disney Acquisition

Posted on January 01, 2010
Marvel shareholders have approved Disney's acquisition of the Marvel empire. Read more here in a Daily Mail story.

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