Media Law Prof Blog: Media & Entertainment Law

Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Media & Entertainment Law Blogs

OR PHONE (866) 635-1838 for Bankruptcy Help, (866) 635-6190 for Divorce,
(866) 635-2689 for Personal Injury or (866) 635-9402 for Criminal Defense

Find a Local Lawyer

Bankruptcy (866) 635-1838
Divorce (866) 635-6190
Personal Injury (866) 635-2689
Criminal Defense (866) 635-9402

Media & Entertainment Law

Media Law Prof Blog

Media law resources, information, and news for the academic community.

Post Frequency: 34.8/day

Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 12:48:00

Digital Books, Their Readers, and Privacy

Posted on May 18, 2010
Jennifer Lynch, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, and Nicole Ozer, ACLU of Northern California, have published "Protecting Reader Privacy in Digital Books," presented at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Privacy 2010 Symposium...

Producer Joel Silver Files Lawsuit Against Goldman Sachs

Posted on May 18, 2010
From the Hollywood Reporter: Producer Joel Silver ("Sherlock Holmes," "The Matrix,") is suing Goldman Sachs over what he alleges are millions in unpaid profits. Mr. Silver says he and the investment giant entered into financing arrangement talks in 2007, and...

Jimmy Wales, Fox, Square Off Over Porn Hostings Allegations

Posted on May 18, 2010
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and its offshoots, including Wikimedia, has responded via general counsel Mike Godwin to charges that the company is in "chaos" after co-founder Larry Sanger alleged Wikimedia Commons makes some pornographic images available and requested an...

Recalibrating the Fair Use Exception

Posted on May 17, 2010
Ryan T. Holte, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, has published "Chapter 7 - Restricting Fair Use to Save the News," in Free Speech and Copyright Law 275-319 (Audhi Vavili, ed. Amicus Books, 2010). Here is the...

To access this complete feed in the blog feed reader login or register for free.

Examining Internetfatwa Sites

Posted on May 17, 2010
Hussin Iza has published Where is the Local Online? Internet Fatwa and the Making of New Muslim Spaces. Here is the abstract. This paper is an exploration of a new domain of Islamic law: internetfatwa sites, to which millions of...

Jennifer Hudson Film On Winnie Mandela Slated For Production In Spite of "Threat"

Posted on May 17, 2010
The producer of Jennifer Hudson's new film based on Winnie Mandela's life says the project is going ahead, in spite of a letter Ms. Mandela's lawyers have sent him "contain[ing the threat" that some action might be taken if the...

President Signs New Freedom of the Press Act Into Law

Posted on May 17, 2010
From the CNN Ticker: President Obama has signed the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act. The new statute, which requires the State Department to look into possible violations of press freedoms abroad as part of its Annual Country Reports...

Controversy Over Seattle Station's Handling of Videotape

Posted on May 15, 2010
Two employees of CNN Seattle affiliate KQPC (Q13) have left the station, after questions have been raised over the station's seeming unwillingness to air a videotape of what seems to show police assaulting a man, now identified as Martin Monetti....

Stephen, Sedition and Restricting Freedom of Speech

Posted on May 14, 2010
T. John O'Dowd, UCD School of Law, has published Pilate?s Paramount Duty: Constitutional 'Reasonableness' and the Restriction of Freedom of Speech and Assembly, in Comparative Constitutionalism in South Asia (Sunil Khilnani, Raghavan Vikram, and Arun Thiruvengadam eds...

New Hampshire Supreme Court Finds Website Publisher May Claim Newsgathering Privilege; Adopts Dendrite Test For Disclosure of Anonymous Speakers

Posted on May 14, 2010
The New Hampshire Supreme Court has ruled in Mortgage Specialists Inc. v. Implode-Explode Heavy Industries Inc., that a company operating an online service that gathers information about mortgage lenders and posts it online qualifies as a newsgatherer for purposes of...

Press Complaints Commission Refuses To Uphold Politician's Complaint Against Blogger

Posted on May 14, 2010
The Press Complaints Commission has refused to find in favor of Viscount Monckton, who filed a complaint concerning a post by writer/journalist George Monbiot on his Guardian blog. Said the PCC in part: The blog entry, by George Monbiot, commented...

Gender and Political Ads

Posted on May 13, 2010
Tina Ruggeiro has published The Gender Gap and its Effect on Presidential Campaigns and Political Ads. Here is the abstract. In America women not only vote differently than men but they also vote in larger numbers (Poggione). In 2000, 56...

Sean Penn Pleads No Contest; Gets Community Service and Probation

Posted on May 13, 2010
According to the BBC, two time Oscar winner Sean Penn has pled no contest to a vandalism charge and received a sentence of 300 hours of community service and 3 years of probation from the judge, this after yet another...

CommLaw Conspectus Call For Papers

Posted on May 13, 2010
From the editors of CommLaw Conspectus CommLaw Conspectus: Journal of Communications Law and Policy is currently seeking submissions for publication in its Volume 19 editions. CommLaw Conspectus publishes thoughtful, timely, and useful articles that discuss recent developments in communications law...

From Writing To Speech To Action

Posted on May 13, 2010
Marci A. Hamilton on the controversy over Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks' image of the Prophet Mohammed, "Jihad Jane," American Colleen LaRose, who is accused of plotting to kill him, and the right to speak.

Media Ethics and Middle East Reporting

Posted on May 11, 2010
Kenneth Lasson, University of Baltimore School of Law, has published Betraying Truth: Ethics Abuse in Middle East Reporting at 1 Journal for the Study of Antisemitism 139 (2009). Here is the abstract. This article presents a brief overview of press...

Regulating the Ratings Industry

Posted on May 11, 2010
Caleb M. Deats has published Talk that Isn't Cheap: Does the First Amendment Protect Credit Rating Agencies' Faulty Methodologies from Regulation?, forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review. Here is the abstract. This Note argues that courts should reject the Southern...

FCC Launches "Bill Shock" Initiative To Address Customer Amazement At Unexpectedly High Cell Phone Charges

Posted on May 11, 2010
From the FCC: Today the FCC?s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) launched an initiative on ?bill shock? ? the experience of getting an unexpectedly high wireless phone bill. The Bureau is seeking input on ways to alert consumers about...

Julie Hilden On the California Video Games Case

Posted on May 10, 2010
FindLaw's Julie Hilden says that California video game law might well be upheld. Read more here.

Are Movies Like Onions?

Posted on May 10, 2010
From the New York Times, a discussion of the debate over trading in futures on movie box-office grosses. To cry or not to cry?

Four Reporters Ousted From Gitmo Hearings

Posted on May 08, 2010
Four reporters have been banned from covering Guantanamo Bay proceedings after they violated a court order prohibiting them from publishing the name of a witness, a former U.S. Army interrogator. One is Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg. The other three...

Supreme Court of Canada Rules Media Have No Constitutional Right To Protect Sources

Posted on May 07, 2010
In an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the media does not have a constitutional right to protect its sources. Instead, such assertions of privilege must be decided case-by-case. The National Post had asserted the right...

Washington Supreme Court Upholds Public Library Internet Filtering Policy

Posted on May 07, 2010
The Washington Supreme Court has upheld a policy that allows public libraries to filter Internet content for all patrons. The plaintiffs claim that NCRL's Internet filtering policy is overbroad and, more specifically, so overbroad as to rise to the level...

Brandeis and the Tort Theory of Privacy

Posted on May 07, 2010
Neil M. Richards, Washington University School of Law, has published The Puzzle of Brandeis, Privacy, and Speech, in volume 63 of the Vanderbilt Law Review (2010). Here is the abstract. Most courts and scholarship assume that privacy and free speech....

No Blogs, Please--We're Judges

Posted on May 06, 2010
FindLaw's Anita Ramasastry discusses why the judge in the Casey Anthony trial was right to recuse himself after talking to a blogger.

The FCC's "Third Way" Response To Comcast v. FCC

Posted on May 06, 2010
The FCC is announcing its new plan to bring broadband to the nation. Here's a link to the live proceedings. FCC Chair Genachowski issued a statement concerning his new policy, "The Third Way: A Narrowly Tailored Broadband Framework". Here are...

Dutch Public Prosecutor Files Appeal In AEL Cartoon Dispute

Posted on May 06, 2010
According to Reuters, the Dutch public prosecutor is filing an appeal over a court's acquittal of those charged of offending Jews by publishing a cartoon on their website. The Arab European League published a cartoon on its website in 2006...

The NY Times on Video Games and Regulation

Posted on May 06, 2010
An editorial on the Schwartzenegger v. EMA case.

What Now For the FCC's Broadband Policy

Posted on May 06, 2010
From the New York Times, a piece on the FCC's likely broadband policy in the wake of Comcast v. FCC.

"My Husband's Family Is So Humorless...."

Posted on May 05, 2010
Stand up comedian Sunda Croonquist can start working on more mother-in-law jokes. A federal judge issued a 21-page opinion ruling that her quips at the expense of her husband's family are protected under the First Amendment. Her husband, an attorney....

Previous | Next

Related Law Bulletins

New Baptist Covenant Blog
Last week, I pointed to the New Baptist Convenant website, now onl...

The Mexico Trucker Blog
I've written before about the perceived problems with relaxed rest...