Posted on July 7th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Yep, it’s all Section 230, all the time here at Info/Law! Makes for a nice change from filtering. Mickey Kaus writes about the threat by Sarah Palin’s attorney to sue anyone defaming her, and also those who republish such defamation. He’s astonished to learn that Section 230 could shield him and other bloggers. (I’d presume [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Court Decisions, Digital Media, First Amendment, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Media, Scholarship, Social Networking, civil procedure
Posted on July 6th, 2009 by William McGeveran
There is some back-and-forth between Michael Risch and me about section 230, building on my earlier post here, now posted on PrawfsBlawg.
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Filed under: Blogging, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Privacy, Trademarks
Posted on July 5th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
The Federal Trade Commission has proposed to mandate disclosure of connections between bloggers and advertisers (those selling stuff) under its Section 5 authority, which enables the Commission to prohibit “unfair or deceptive acts or practices” in commerce. In short, the FTC seeks to hold advertisers and endorsers (those would be the bloggers) liable for 1) [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Corporate Law, First Amendment, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Peer Production, Social Networking, Software
Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by William McGeveran
A federal judge has set aside last fall’s convictions of Lori Drew on misdemeanor criminal charges arising from the cyberbullying and resulting suicide of Missouri teenager Megan Meier. Given the awful consequences of the nasty hoax against Meier, it is hard to exactly celebrate. But I did sign an amicus brief arguing that the prosecution [...]
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Filed under: Computer crime, Court Decisions, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Privacy, Social Networking, Virtual Worlds
Posted on June 25th, 2009 by William McGeveran
Cyberprof Michael Risch has posted some interesting thoughts on the emerging complexity of Section 230. We’ve talked about this provision on the blog many times before. And Mark Lemley wrote a good paper on it a while back. The provision pretty much immunizes web sites and other internet providers from liability for a host [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Digital Media, First Amendment, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Privacy, Social Networking, Trademarks
Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
One beneficial side effect of Internet filtering is that it points up quirks in how countries make content decisions: what’s blacklisted, and why? The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Australia’s proposed Internet censorship system (currently in its second phase of testing) will block access to on-line and downloadable games that aren’t MA-15 or milder. This [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Digital Media, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Software, Virtual Worlds, international
Posted on June 24th, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
One of the many interesting presentations I attended at the just-concluded 2009 CALI Conference was a tag-team primer on creating digital statute books and casebooks. Now, I see that one of the presenters, Professor Steve Bradford of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, has posted on SSRN the paper he discussed at CALI. Here’s the pithy abstract:
Law students [...]
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Filed under: Books, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Internet & Society, Law School, Open Access
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Iranian demonstrators protesting the recent election results (which look dicey) - and their opponents - are using networked technologies to communicate and organize, including Twitter, blogs, SMS, and the like. John Palfrey, Rob Faris, and Bruce Etling point out, though, that these capabilities, while empowering, won’t carry the day. Whether the demonstrations succeed depends on [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
Last year, the trial judge who presided over the trial of accused file-sharer Jammie Thomas suggested that the jury’s award of $222,000 in statutory damages in the first trial may have been excessive.
So it’s interesting to speculate what the judge might make of the damages a jury just awarded to the record label plaintiffs in [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Internet & Society, Media, Minnesota, Music, RIAA
Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Nope, not a post about the World Cup - these are three countries that have been in the news for government-mandated Internet censorship. It’s a bit weird to see that grouping, but as I’ve argued elsewhere, filtering is becoming ubiquitous - no longer limited to “bad states” like Burma.
In Germany, the major parties in Parliament [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, international