Cover me
Ron ColemanPhoto Attorney Carolyn Wright writes: Rebecca Tushnet over at the 43Blog reports on a recent case in New York where the court determined that the use of a woman’s photograph…
Love means …
Jim Lindgren of the The Volokh Conspiracy writes (hat tip to Glenn Reynolds), a tad grudgingly, of a kinder, gentler left-wing Supreme Court nominee on the issue of that supposedly…
Second class on the First Amendment
The Administration believes bloggers can’t be trusted with free speech the way everyone else is, it seems. Reports FT.com (hat tip to Marco): Advertisers in the US are bracing themselves…
Speaking of prior restraint!
Ron ColemanWe toyed a little bit with the very big idea of prior restraint in constitutional law about a week ago. Now Clarice Feldman writes about “Duke’s boundless chutzpah”: After tarring…
Pro shutterbug’s guide to IP
Here’s a good excerpt from a new book by copyright doyenne Nancy Wolff called The Professional Photographer’s Legal Handbook. It’s on a favorite topic of mine, namely intellectual property rights…
Old media vs. new in LA federal court
CNET News.com reports: NBC Universal and Viacom have come out against YouTube in a legal case that could help to determine whether the video-sharing site is culpable for copyright violations…
Emerson InSinkErator trash compactors will mangle your hand if you stick it in one of them.
Ron ColemanOriginally 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 into an Acme trash compactor.…
Bad journalism: Something you are, or something you do?
Forget faked pictures and media bias. How about basic writing? Read this AP story — “Walesa quits Solidarity union” — and tell me if you have any idea what the…
More bad news for reporters seeking exemption from laws
The AP reports: A federal judge told two San Francisco Chronicle reporters they must comply with a subpoena and tell a grand jury who leaked them secret testimony of Barry…
Reuters: Never mind.
I am sure it was accurate, in some Ratherian sense … but it was fake, and the blogsphere did brilliantly what it does best: Caught it and called the fakers…
Judge: New York Times reporter waived press shield privilege
The New York Law Journal reports (subscription required): A New York Times reporter must testify in an emotional-distress case regarding an interview he conducted with the defendant, the Riverside Church’s…
The Chosen
Why outsource? Some Israelis are running their own Anti-Semitic Cartoon Contest! “We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published! No Iranian…
The Floyd Abrams Myth
Mickey Kaus links to this story about “the federal government’s decision to drop subpoenas issued to The New York Times and the writer of a series of articles the newspaper…
Not So Plain Dealing
Instapundit links to this teef-gnashing item from Michael Silence about this super-secret scandal, based on leaked documents, that the Cleveland Plain Dealer would for sure be investigating and breaking wide…