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UK Libel Law Gets Much Needed Update – But Also Threatens Online Anonymity
5/8/2013 Author: Andrew McDiarmid Free Expression Intermediary Liability and Section 230 International Free Expression This post is part of our ‘Shielding the Messengers’ series, which examines...
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Who is a Journalist? Here We Go Again…
In the wake of the Associated Press and James Rosen incidents, the call for statutory protection for journalists and their sources has started anew. The Obama administration has called on Sen. Chuck...
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British Ruling Sets Standards for Twitter Libel
A British judge's decision that a tweet by Sally Bercow (wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow) libeled Lord Robert Alistair McAlpine (former Deputy Chairman and Party Treasurer of...
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Reputation vs. National Security: The Supreme Court Takes on an Airline...
The Supreme Court has granted certiorari to the first defamation case it's heard since 1990, and in it, the Court will be balancing injury to reputation against -- what else? -- national security. In...
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“Dirty” Verdict Sets Up Section 230 Appeal
A federal jury's verdict awarding $338,000 to former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader and high school teacher Sarah Jones over postings on thedirty.com website may lead to a re-examination of the scope...
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Distinguishing Fact from Opinion: The Second Circuit Rules on Scientific...
In a recent case before the Second Circuit, the Court of Appeals held that conclusions in scientific articles are akin to statements of opinion for defamation purposes and cannot give rise to...
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Plaintiff sued an attorney and his law firm for defamation over a tweet the attorney posted about one of his cases that read as follows: [Plaintiff] runs an organization for the benefit of its officers...
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A Win for Opinion: Sixth Circuit Tackles Website Top-Ten Lists
As our friends at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic have reported, on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a decision that placing a particular hotel at the top of an...
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Ice Roads and Chilled Speech: ECHR Tags News Portal for Reader Comments
The Chamber of the First Section of the European Court of Human Rights held unanimously on October 10 that making a news portal liable for defamatory comments posted by its readers does not violate...
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Getting Dirty to Protect Crowdsourced Data and Public Information
Yesterday, the Digital Media Law Project joined an all-star cast of organizations (including the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Kentucky, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center...
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A Win for Opinion: Sixth Circuit Tackles Website Top-Ten Lists
As our friends at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic have reported, on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a decision that placing a particular hotel at the top of an...
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Ice Roads and Chilled Speech: ECHR Tags News Portal for Reader Comments
The Chamber of the First Section of the European Court of Human Rights held unanimously on October 10 that making a news portal liable for defamatory comments posted by its readers does not violate...
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