Zuckspeak
Mark Zuckerberg sounds free speechy again. Why on earth wouldn’t we trust him?
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Ron Coleman
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That offensive Internet
My one-year-off college classmate, former document review colleague, oddly cheerful ultra-left-wing nut and bona fide genius (yeah, I know!) Brian Leiter has a short post […]
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Emerson InSinkErator trash compactors will mangle your hand if you stick it in one of them.
Originally posted 2006-10-19 13:44:39. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Sounds like a reasonable assertion, right? The same thing will happen if you stick your hand […]
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Likelihood of jurisdiction (UPDATED and bumped)
Appellate courts, we see, choose what interests them, and how much. Sometimes they surprise the parties and their counsel. We weren’t all that shocked about […]
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Stern warning on Free Speech
Originally posted 2005-01-06 10:02:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter One of the more interesting developments in media, law and culture — don’t worry, I left […]
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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 […]
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More, more, Moore!
One of my favorite ever topics here on LOC has been the litigation brought by the University of Alabama against painter Daniel Moore for unauthorized […]
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Continue reading » Kinsley on The New York Times’ next First Amendment embarrassment
Not a lot of time to blog these days but this Slate piece from Michael Kinsley is a must-read. Excerpt: [T]he Times believes that its […]
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Dancing around Fred and Ginger
These are facts guaranteeing that future hilarity (i.e., litigation) will ensue — two in particular. First, you have the classic declined-request-for-permission time bomb, which almost never disappoints. Then you have use-the-thing-they-wouldn’t-license-outside the U.S. stragety, whose litigation half-life is also assuredly short.
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“This will affect people from top to bottom.”
That was the comment from pornographer Jim McAnally (careful how you type that), who told Wired mag that “more than half of hard-core websites, including […]
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eBay beats the gripe rap
Eric Goldman reports on a California case that holds eBay not liable for bum feedback: This risk of liability is the dark side of the […]
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Matter Meets Antimatter: Free Speech v. Islam Explodes for Europe
Michelle Malkin is running with the story (which I saw first on Instapundit) about a political cartoonist’s depiction of an injured Iraq veteran that raised […]
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Malice aforethought
It’s me, on the Michael Malice show, talking about censorship, social media and The Slants case.
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