Wake-up Call with Josh Denny
Comic @JoshDenny and tragic @RonColeman discuss cancel culture, comedy and social media in part 1 of this excerpt from Josh's "Wake Up Call" Read more
Category: Free Expression
Circuit Split: Do Public Officials Violate the First Amendment When They Block Social Media Comments? (Guest Post)
Nearly 75% of America’s population today actively uses social media. Facebook and Twitter have become invaluable channels of information, and are often the main source... Read more
“When the Government Assaults the First Amendment”
From Freedom Fest, July 14, 2022 and featuring former Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, James O’Keefe III of Project Veritas, and the YouTuber known... Read more
Sealed with a fist
I kvetch a lot about the mania for dubious “IP enforcement” by government agencies such as New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, which really should both... Read more
Amicus Brief filed in Vans v. MSCHF
This is an important trademarks / free speech case. I got in on an edge of it! Read more
That special something that says “infringement”
Paul Alan Levy sends along this heartwarming news about the Jenzabar case: In a ruling this week, a Massachusetts trial judge upheld the free speech rights... Read more
NYU: PC censorship “not negotiable”
I usually wish these libertarians would shut up and just do their economics forecasts — especially those Ayn-Rand-worshipping Objectivist types. On the other hand, you... Read more
Scientology Cult Returns to its IP-Abusive Ways
Long Island (New York’s) Newsday newspaper reports that the wackos at Scientology have tried to shut down a website called Scientomogy.com which mocks the cult’s... Read more
“All Criticism of This Website Is Hereby Forbidden”
Chutzpa! Originally posted 2014-04-24 11:15:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Best of 2010: Moral rights in Massachusetts
First published April 12, 2010. Lee Gesmer reported last month on a pretty important decision in copyright law: A First Circuit ruling applying the Visual... Read more
They killed South Park?
Discussion about censorship and moral cowardice is brewing at Dean’s World. Originally posted 2010-11-02 11:55:32. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Baseball been very, very good to lawyers
Do you remember the lawsuit by Major League Baseball over the use of — well, not statistics, exactly, but the rights of publicity in baseball... Read more
The Parody Bomb Goes Off
When it rains, it pours. Via Andrew Sullivan (and reported here too) a report that Volkswagen is going to sue— in the UK — the... Read more