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The Embargo-Proof Film

Posted on June 23, 2008
How to keep the critics from pawing (or panning) movies, books and tv shows before the public sees them? The embargo is no longer simply a security measure, it's an art form. Mark Lawson explains.

Le Monde's Problems

Posted on June 23, 2008
The popular leftist paper Le Monde is in dire financial trouble, and its latest problems may well finish it off. It's lost nearly 20 percent of its circulation in four years and is 75 million Euros in debt. The ownership...

British Viewers Complain in Record Numbers About Heinz Advertisement

Posted on June 23, 2008
Ofcom is receiving a record number of complaints about a Heinz ad that shows two men kissing. Read (and see) more here.

George Carlin Dies

Posted on June 23, 2008
Satirist George Carlin has died of heart failure. The comedian, whose "Seven Filthy Words" routine was the center of a Supreme Court case, passed away on Sunday. He was supposed to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor later...

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Danish Appellate Court Upholds Lower Court Ruling: No Liability For Newspaper That Published Prophet Muhammed Cartoons

Posted on June 20, 2008
A Danish appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that the Danish newspaper which published those controversial "Prophet Muhammed" cartoons was exercising a right of free speech. The cartoons caused outrage both in Denmark and abroad. The plaintiffs in...

Law Profs File Brief in RIAA Downloading Case

Posted on June 20, 2008
Several law professors have filed a brief supporting the position of the only defendant to have gone to trial in a downloading piracy case brought by the RIAA. The profs, variously at the University of Idaho, Villanova University, Southern New...

University Study Tracks Cell Phone Users; Ethics Questioned

Posted on June 19, 2008
Northeastern University carried out a study on cell phone users abroad to investigate their patterns of movement, and the results are both interesting, and disturbing. Ethics experts note that the users did not know they were being tracked, and did...

France Moves To Block Access To Child Porn, Other Offensive, Objectionable Websites

Posted on June 19, 2008
France has moved to block websites that enable access to child pornography, terrorism, and racism, starting in September. Users will be able to alert the government to objectionable sites and government officials will then be able to evaluate them to...

A Documentary on Blasphemy

Posted on June 19, 2008
Roy Greenslade writes about a plan to make a documentary on blasphemy, by Charles Eisendrath and some other folks at the International Press Institute.

Russia Arrests Three in Murder of Journalist

Posted on June 19, 2008
The BBC reports that three men have been charged in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot down in front of her Moscow home in October of 2006. A fourth suspect remains at large. A fifth man, an...

Protecting Performers in Sexually Explicit Works

Posted on June 18, 2008
Ann Bartow, University of South Carolina School of Law, has published "Pornography, Coercion, and Copyright Law 2.0" in volume 10 of Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (2008). Here is the abstract. The lack of regulation of the production...

Eating It Up: Ads For Weight Loss and the FTC

Posted on June 18, 2008
Eric S. Nguyen, Harvard Law School, has published "Weight Loss Testimonials: A Critique of Potential FTC Regulations on Diet Advertising," in volume 63 of the Food & Drug Law Journal (2008). Here is the abstract. Each year, millions of consumers...

FCC Denies Media Request For Inspection of Records

Posted on June 18, 2008
The FCC has denied John Dunbar of the Associated Press's request "for a copy of the Second Report and Order regarding the service rules for the 700 megahertz auction . . . as approved by the Commission on July 31,...

FCC Issues NAL For Repeatedly Broadcasting Buzz Lightyear Commercial As "Children's Programming"

Posted on June 18, 2008
The FCC has fined Station KMTV in Hutchinson, Kansas, $16,000 for "apparently willfully and repeatedly violated Section 73.670 of the Rules, by failing to comply with the limits on commercial matter in children?s programming." The agency noted that "the Licensee...

Joan Rivers Uses Banned Words on ITV Talk Show

Posted on June 18, 2008
Comedienne and actress Joan Rivers was tossed off the ITV live program "Loose Women" after she used two of George Carlin's 7 words in referring to actor Russell Crowe. They're as banned in Britain as they are in the U.S....

No Cameras In Church

Posted on June 17, 2008
The producers of Angels & Demons, the prequel to The Da Vinci Code, will not be able to film any scenes inside two churches in Rome. The diocese of Rome says that the film's content is contrary to the Church's...

Singapore Blogger Update

Posted on June 17, 2008
Update: Mr. Nair has been released on bail. Read more here.

Borat Litigation, Strike One

Posted on June 17, 2008
One of the pending cases in the mass of "Borat" litigation has been dismissed. Lemerond v. Twentieth Century Fox (No. 07 Civ. 4635 (LAP)), a publicity rights case, was dismissed by U. S. District Court judge Loretta A. Preska (who...

New Committee Chair Promises Re-Examination of British Editors' Code of Practice

Posted on June 17, 2008
Across the Atlantic, the new head of the committee that puts together the voluntary code of practice for newspapers and magazines says he will review it, out of concern that reporters are inhibited from doing their jobs. Paul Dacre, editor...

Singapore Charges Blogger For Insulting Judges

Posted on June 17, 2008
Singapore is charging a U.S. based blogger with defamation for alleging that a judge is "prostituting herself" during a trial. The blogger, lawyer Gopalan Nair, who is now a U.S. citizen living in California, says he will dispute both these...

Three Arrested In Japan For Posting Threatening Web Messages

Posted on June 16, 2008
Japan has arrested three people alleged to have posted threatening messages saying they would commit violent crimes, in the wake of a murderous incident in Tokyo on June 8 that resulted in 7 deaths. Read more here.

MySpace Defendant To Appear in Federal Court

Posted on June 16, 2008
Lori Drew, the Missouri woman accused of creating a MySpace account to send hoaxed messages to Megan Meier, the teen who eventually hanged herself in 2006, was to appear in federal court in Los Angeles to answer charges that she...

FCC Chair: Sirius/XM Merger Good To Go

Posted on June 16, 2008
FCC Chair Kevin Martin has indicated that the Sirius/XM Satellite merger is a "go", with a few caveats. He would like to see the companies agree to hold prices at current levels, and offer "a la carte" options to customers,...

Updated Info For Submissions to Law Reviews & Journals Available

Posted on June 16, 2008
Allen K. Rostron and Nancy Levit, University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Law, have published "Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews and Journals." Here is the abstract. This document contains information about submitting articles to law reviews and...

Expressing Emotion, Protecting the Expression of Emotion

Posted on June 16, 2008
R. George Wright, Indiana University, Indianapolis School of Law, has published "An Emotion-Based Approach to Freedom of Speech." Here is the abstract. Free speech law often protects emotional expression. However, we lack an understanding of the scope and limits of...

A New Model For Reviewing Sexually Explicit Material On the Internet

Posted on June 16, 2008
Patrick M. Garry, University of South Dakota School of Law, has published "A New First Amendment Model for Evaluating Content-Based Regulation of Internet Pornography: Revising the Strict Scrutiny Model to Better Reflect the Realities of the Modern Media Age," in...

New Parody Raises Questions of Copyright Law

Posted on June 16, 2008
The hot new parody "Goodnight Bush" is apparently quite funny--at least to people who like political parody. But it also raises questions of fair use, since it's quite obviously a take-off on the honored children's classic "Goodnight, Moon." "Goodnight Bush"'s...

AP, Website In Fight Over Use of AP Content

Posted on June 16, 2008
The AP is in a fight with the Drudge Retort over that site's use of the AP's material, and has issued takedown notices over the copyright violations. The news service claims that the site uses far more of the AP's...

British Medical Commentator Accused of Plagiarism

Posted on June 16, 2008
British physician and journalist Dr. Raj Persaud has acknowledged plagiarism in the publication of his book From the Edge of the Couch, which appeared in 2003. His case is set for a hearing soon. According to the BBC, problems first...

Spectator Apologizes For Alterations In Book Review

Posted on June 16, 2008
The Spectator has apologized for editing a book review of Stephen Robinson's The Remarkable Life of Bill Deedes that omitted reference to the ownership of the Daily Telegraph, for which Lord Deedes worked, as well as the ownership of the...

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