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Malaysian Blogger Takes Refuge In UK

Posted on August 09, 2010
Malaysian blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin left the country last year after hearing that he might be arrested yet again for his writings; he turned up in the UK where he continues to write online at this website. His criticism of...

Coming Up With "Reasonable Royalties"

Posted on August 09, 2010
Neal Solomon has published What is a Reasonable Royalty? A Comparative Assessment of Patent Damages Methodologies. Here is the abstract. The article surveys theories of licensing royalty rates in patent damages cases. After first reviewing, analyzing and critiquing Georgia-Pacific factors...

Violent Video Games and the First Amendment

Posted on August 09, 2010
Renee Newman Knake, Michigan State University College of Law, has published From Research Conclusions to Real Change: Understanding The First Amendment?s (Non)Response to the Negative Effects of Violent Video Games on Children, in volume 63 of Southern Methodist University Law...

It's Not Nice To Make a BMI Rep Cry

Posted on August 08, 2010
From the New York Times, a look at a broadcast licensing rep's life. Sometimes it's more guns than roses.

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Pentagon To Wikileaks: Give Back Those Papers

Posted on August 06, 2010
The Pentagon wants Wikileaks to disgorge those Afghan war documents. Read more here (from the Guardian) and here (from the New York Times).

North Carolina Court Denies Motion To Quash in Anonymous Posters Case

Posted on August 06, 2010
A North Carolina court has denied a website operator's motion to quash a subpoena requiring it to divulge the names of anonymous posters who criticized a landlord living in Henderson, NC. The judge applied the Dendrite test and determined that...

Revamping Regulation of the Internet

Posted on August 04, 2010
Pierre Trudel, Centre de Recherche en Droit Public, has published Regulation of Broadcasting on the Internet: A Risk Management Process. Here is the abstract. As audiovisual content traditionally offered on radio and television shifts to the Internet, major reworking of...

Bang, Bang! FBI Tells Wikipedia To Remove Insignia From Its Article About FBI

Posted on August 03, 2010
The Federal Bureau of Investigation fired off a letter in late July to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia telling it to cease and desist displaying the agency's seal, and noting that "[t]he FBI Seal is an official insignia of the Department...

Hate Speech: The European Court of Human Rights Speaks

Posted on August 03, 2010
Uladzislau Belavusau, European University Institute (Florence, Italy), University of California, Berkeley, has published A Dernier Cri from Strasbourg: An Ever Formidable Challenge of Hate Speech, at 16 European Public Law 373 (2010). Here is the abstract...

Parents Television Council Sends Letter To Companies Planning To Advertise On New CBS SitCom

Posted on August 03, 2010
From the Hollywood Reporter: The Parents Television Council has sent out a warning to companies planning to advertise on the new CBS sitcom "$#*!" My Dad Says, which stars William Shatner. The PTC points out in the letter that advertisers...

Daily Mail's Editor Annoyed With Criticism of PCC

Posted on August 03, 2010
Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, is upset at criticism of the Press Complaints Commission. The PCC, a self-regulatory body, is "an independent self-regulatory body which deals with complaints about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines (and their...

The Journalist and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights

Posted on August 02, 2010
Regis Bismuth, Universit� Paris 1 Panth�on-Sorbonne, has published Standards of Conduct for Journalists under Europe?s First Amendment, at 8 First Amendment Law Review 283-314 (2010). Here is the abstract. When it comes to the protection of the freedom of the...

NLJ Can Print Name Of Agency Investigating Pom Wonderful, Reason For Investigation

Posted on July 31, 2010
From the Blog of Legal Times (BLT): a District of Columbia judge has lifted a restraining order against the National Law Journal she issued days before forbidding the paper to publish information concerning which agency is investigating juice maker POM...

Is Conventional Wisdom Partially Wrong? Do Judges Cite Law Reviews?

Posted on July 30, 2010
David L. Schwartz, Chicago-Kent College of Law, and Lee Petherbridge, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, have published The Use of Legal Scholarship by the Federal Courts of Appeals: An Empirical Study. Here is the abstract. Chief Justice Roberts recently explained...

Legalizing Internet Gaming? Anything's Possible

Posted on July 29, 2010
Congress outlawed Internet gaming four years ago. Now some members of that body are thinking that activity might be a good source of revenue, if it were legal and taxable.

Shirley Sherrod Says She'll Sue Over Video Post

Posted on July 29, 2010
Shirley Sherrod, the USDA official forced to step down after her boss at the agency and the White House both reacted prematurely over a video clip posted by blogger Andrew Breitbart, now says she will sue Mr. Breitbart over the...

Copyright and Access To Information

Posted on July 28, 2010
Alina Ng, Mississippi College School of Law, has published Rights, Privileges, and Access to Information in the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal (forthcoming). Here is the abstract. Protecting property rights in creative works represent a classic institutional approach to a...

The Effect of the "Jailbreak" Exemption

Posted on July 28, 2010
Here's the Washington Post summarizing analysis on the Library of Congress' Copyright Office's recent ruling allowing individuals to "jailbreak" their cell phones. Here's a link to Librarian of Congress James Billington's announcement on the permissibility of jailbreaking...

British Government Shuts Down UK Film Council

Posted on July 27, 2010
In a surprise move, the new British government has decided to shut down the UK Film Council, the body in charge of assisting the film industry, just as the agency is celebrating its tenth year of operation. Parliament has recessed...

The Children's Television Act

Posted on July 26, 2010
Scott R. Conley, Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law, has published The Children?s Television Act: Reasons & Practice (forthcoming in Syracuse Law Review). Here is the abstract. An average child will have watched between 10,000 and 15,000 hours of...

Taxes On Consumer Electronics and Telecommunications

Posted on July 26, 2010
Adam D. Thierer and Berin Michael Szoka, the Progress & Freedom Foundation, have published The Wrong Way to Reinvent Media, Part 1: Taxes on Consumer Electronics, Mobile Phones & Broadband, in volume 17 of the Progress & Freedom Foundation on...

The Politics and Costs of Leaks

Posted on July 26, 2010
Great discussion everywhere about the Wikileaks posting of sensitive documents concerning the war in Afghanistan. CNN has breaking news here and NPR's Talk of the Nation is currently discussing here.

Daniel Schorr, 1916-2010

Posted on July 23, 2010
From NPR: news that longtime news analyst and commentator Daniel Schorr has died at the age of 93. More here from the New York Times, which has a lengthy obituary. Mr. Schorr was famous not just for that distinctive and...

John Dean On the Shirley Sherrod Matter

Posted on July 23, 2010
John Dean weighs in on whether Shirley Sherrod should take legal action against Andrew Breitbart and Fox News over Mr. Breitbart's presentation of an edited version of her remarks before a local NAACP audience and Fox News' airing of the...

The Intersection of Election Law and Constitutional Law

Posted on July 23, 2010
Heather Gerken, Yale University Law School, has published Keynote Address: What Election Law Has to Say to Constitutional Law (forthcoming in the Indiana Law Journal). Here is the abstract. This paper briefly reexamines the relationship between election law and constitutional...

Man Involved In "South Park" Warning Picked Up By FBI

Posted on July 22, 2010
The Hollywood Reporter notes that Zachary Chesser, who alluded to dire things that might happen to Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the men behind the hit South Park, by putting a warning on a radical Muslim bulletin board, has been...

News of the World Says Its Articles Concerning State of Jolie-Pitt Relationship Untrue; Pays Damages

Posted on July 22, 2010
From the Guardian: the News of the World is paying Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie damages after acknowledging that its January story that the pair was separating is untrue. NOTW alleged that the famous couple visited an attorney and hashed...

The Extent of Copyright In Original, Unpublished Material: Raymond Carver's Stories

Posted on July 22, 2010
Matthew J. Weldon, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, has published Publishing Raymond Carver's 'Original' Stories as 'Fair Use' in volume 7 of the Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal (2008/2009). Here is the abstract. This is a paper...

The Neutral Reportage Privilege in England and Wales

Posted on July 22, 2010
Jason John Bosland, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales; University of Melbourne, Centre for Media and Communications Law, has published Republication of Defamation under the Doctrine of Reportage - The Evolution of Common Law Qualified Privilege in England...

Will Conrad Black Be Released?

Posted on July 21, 2010
Judge Amy St. Eve may allow Conrad Black out of jail soon on $2 million bond, say sources. He has served just one third of his six year sentence for fraud. More here.

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