Media Law Prof Blog: Media & Entertainment Law

Posted on February 26, 2009
The Institute for Justice is making available "Freedom Flix" on its website to highlight cases and issues in which it takes an interest.

Posted on February 26, 2009
Ryan Benjamin Witte, Columbia University Law School and Florida State University College of Law, has published "The Judge as an Author/The Author as a Judge." Here is the abstract. For Federal judges, a life-tenure also comes with a life-long publishing...

Facing Off on Facebook

Posted on February 26, 2009
FindLaw's Anita Ramasastry discusses Facebook's recent attempts to change its user agreement here.

Australian Returns Home After King of Thailand Pardons Him

Posted on February 26, 2009
That Australian convicted of lese-majeste has been pardoned by the King of Thailand. Harry Nicolaides has returned home after nearly six months in jail. He had self-published a book, which sold seven copies, in which he discussed the sex life...

The Law of Holocaust Denial: Comparative Perspectives

Posted on February 26, 2009
Russell L. Weaver, University of Louisville Law School, has published "Holocaust Denial and Govermentally Declare 'Truth': French and American Perspectives." Here is the abstract. This paper involves a comparative examination of free speech principles as applied in the context of...

LSU Law Center Student Wins Scribes Award

Posted on February 26, 2009
Michelle Shamblin?s article, Silencing Chicken Little: Options for School Districts after ?Parents Involved,? 69 La. L. Rev. 219 (2008), has won the annual national award given by Scribes (The American Society of Legal Writers). Articles from law reviews throughout the...

Grievance Hearing Over "Speed the Plow" Complaint Set for Today

Posted on February 26, 2009
FindLaw notes that a grievance hearing is set for today at which Actors Equity reps will hear details of the producers' complaint against actor Jeremy Piven, who left the Broadway production of Speed the Plow last year. He was reported...

Linguistic Diversity and Muslim Law

Posted on February 26, 2009
Ali Khan, Washburn University School of Law, has published "Speech Diversity under Islamic Law." Here is the abstract. The Islamic law of speech diversity recognizes two distinct divine rights, one applying to speech communities and the other to individuals...

Check Here To Register Authors' Rights In That Google/Authors Rights Class Action Settlement

Posted on February 26, 2009
Here's a link to the website with information concerning the Authors Guild/Google lawsuit settlement.

British MP Sentenced For Driving Dangerously; Was Texting at the Time

Posted on February 25, 2009
A British Member of Parliament has received a three month prison sentence for "texting" while driving; he was driving dangerously as well at the time and hit another car on December 25, 2007; the driver was killed. The MP, Lord...

Supreme Court Reverses 9th Circuit, Rules "Price Squeezing" Not An Antitrust Violation

Posted on February 25, 2009
The Supreme Court has reversed a 9th Circuit decision and found unanimously for AT&T (Pacific Bell Telephone) in Pacific Bell Telephone v. Linkline. Writing for the Court, Chief Justice Roberts held,The plaintiffs in this case, respondents here, allege that a...

SAG Gives Final Answer To AMPTP's Last Offer

Posted on February 22, 2009
The Screen Actors Guild has rejected the AMPTP's "last offer," because it would not date beginning from the expiration of the last contract (June 2008), but prospectively, when economic conditions are much worse. SAG wants a contract that would put...

Ninth Circuit Strikes Down California Video Game Law

Posted on February 20, 2009
The Ninth Circuit has struck down California's video game statute, saying it violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the federal Constitution. The case is Video Dealers Software v. Schwarzenegger. Here's an excerpt.We hold that the Act, as a presumptively...

SAG May Need To Call a Friend

Posted on February 20, 2009
The AMPTP has made what it says is its last, best, and "final" offer to the Screen Actors Guild, and it claims this one represents a substantial jump over what members of the union received in the contract that expired...

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