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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 Quick Thought on Bloggers, Opinion, and Today’s Ruling from the Ninth Circuit
Earlier today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit released its decision in Obsidian Finance Group, LLC, v. Cox, No. 12-35238 (9th Cir. Jan. 17, 2014), a case involving defamation claims...
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A Quick Thought on Bloggers, Opinion, and Today’s Ruling from the Ninth Circuit
Earlier today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit released its decision in Obsidian Finance Group, LLC, v. Cox, No. 12-35238 (9th Cir. Jan. 17, 2014), a case involving defamation claims...
View ArticleInjunction against blogger violated the First Amendment
Prohibiting former tenant from blogging about landlord was unconstitutional prior restraint against speech. Defendants wrote several blog posts critical of their former commercial landlord. The...
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Lawyers in the Vortex: When Attorneys Become Public Figures
There was substantial media coverage of the defense verdict in the recent "twibel" (i.e., libel via Twitter) case against singer Courtney Love. Although the case attracted attention for the medium in...
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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...
View ArticleSixth Circuit holds thedirty.com entitled to Section 230 immunity
Plaintiff Jones (a high school teacher and Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader) sued the website thedirty.com and its operator for defamation over a number of third party posts that said mean things about...
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Hate crimes in OSCE in 2008
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe recently published annual report on hate crimes for year 2008.
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Critical mass
As each year 1st May in Riga Critical mass took place. Police didn’t took the event in their hands as last year (they escorted cyclers with flashing lights) and was intolerant and rude as usual....
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TV journalist fired for calling politicians “whores”
Journalist and host of political Latvian TV show Skats no malas (A View from The Sidelines) Kārlis Streips was fired for calling the Latvia’s Green and Farmer’s Union political party a "whores" during...
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Latvian police detain peaceful protestors
On October 5 Latvian police detained three persons in center of capital Riga spontaneously protesting against the actions of a political party. Also three bystanders were detained as well. Read more...
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Latvia against ACTA
While there were ongoing protests against ACTA in whole Europe on Saturday, Latvia faced such protest on Monday (February 13). More that 300 protesters gathered at the Cabinet of Ministers. Already few...
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People in Moscow got arrested for wearing white ribbons
This video footage shows people getting arrested in Red square (Moscow, Russia) just for wearing white ribbons (as ant-Putins sign) and without any explanation from officials.
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Police Raid School Teacher for Uploading History Book for Students
Last Thursday, Latvian police raided home of teacher Pāvels Jurs who operates a history resource website for children and students where they can research history topics, see presentations and find...
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Jail term for internet comments
An internet commenter in Latvia recently was sentenced to 7 months of suspended imprisonment and 7 months of probation for comments in YouTube justifying deportation of Latvians by Soviet regime and...
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