Mark their words
Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs — two websites run by friends of mine who have very clearly articulated views about Islamic radicalism, and controversial ones... Read more
Tag: Free Expression
Hitler on copyright
The “Downfall parodies” aren’t really parodies, in the legal sense. But as this one demonstrates, “Hitler” does seem to understand something about copyright, law, IP... Read more
New Jersey Law Journal – Hands Off Blogs
I wrote this in the New Jersey Law Journal last week. Op-ed Hands Off Blogs Mandatory disclosure of payment to bloggers runs counter to free... Read more
On the wrong track, as usual
Jews for Jesus, the sleazy, misleading missionaries who crawl over Manhattan each summer, had to back off from their use of the MTA’s world-famous symbols.... Read more
More on international law and the Web
Instapundit reports: YAHOO! HELPS TURN THE SCREWS: According to Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders), Information supplied by Yahoo! helped Chinese journalist Shi Tao get... Read more
The AP, copyright, and the bloggers
You can’t have missed the story, in all its agony. One weensy problem with the blogosphere: It’s so quick, so supple, so instantaneous, so plastic…... Read more
Best of 2007: Ideological purity
First posted on January 24, 2007. Yahoo News: Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to “purify” the Internet, state media reported on Wednesday,... Read more
Speech and — more? — speech re Russ Feingold
Don’t say they’re anything but — what’s the term? — “fair and balanced” over at Randazza’s Legal Satyricon blog when it comes to the post-mortem... Read more
The CDA “content” divide
When does an interactive website pass across the great divide of “content provider” versus “Internet service provider” under what’s left of the Communications Decency Act?... Read more
Cover banned?
Now this is an interesting twist on IP rights and wrongs. It’s interesting, though, more as a sign of the desperation of the dead-tree media... Read more
Mourning Sonny
No, not that Sonny. No, rather this: If America’s most famous variety-show-star-turned-congressman hadn’t slammed into that tree on that fatal day of downhill skiing, we’d... Read more
New York’s MTA Has an IP Obsession
The New York Sun reports that New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority has filed to register the phrase “If You See Something, Say Something” — its... Read more
Ten Commandments Achieve Creche Status
We’ve been patiently waiting for this one, and the decision is out, and evidently it’s a doozy! Court Splits on Ten Commandments Displays Says the... Read more
Anti-Sedition Acts begin their attack on the Internet
Different River reports on the biggest threat to free speech ever — the McCain-Feingold Act and its state law copycats. Is there any chance that... Read more