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Showing posts with label free expression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free expression. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Indian court refuses injunction of fantasy cricket league in unlicensed use of player names, likenesses

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Free SVG In case about fantasy sports, the Delhi High Court in India ruled in late April that satire, news, and art must enjoy protection fr...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Events endeavor to empower student journalists

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The Student Press Law Center and partner organizations are sponsoring Student Press Freedom Day on February 23, 2023. A number of virtual ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Invasion of Ukraine marks six months; Russian propaganda flows despite court OK of EU media ban

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#IStandWithUkraine On July 27, the European Union (EU) General Court upheld a continental broadcast ban on Russia Today (RT). The EU Council...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

Lisbon graffiti writer seeks internet access

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I passed this graffiti in the Entrecampos area of Lisbon while attending the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association earlier th...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Inter-American Court heralds community radio as human right for indigenous Guatemalan broadcasters

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Community radio in Colombia (USAID CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr ) The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) ruled in October 2021 that ...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Should mass media audiences have right to know whether content is fact or opinion?

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Political protestor in 2012 (photo by Gabriel Saldaña CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr ) To protect the civil rights of the audience, radio and te...
Monday, September 13, 2021

'Don't panic,' lawyers say, as Oz High Court clears way for website liability over defamatory user comments

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The High Court of Australia last week greenlit defamation claims against website operators for user comments, the latest evidence of crumbl...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Despite lack of statute, anti-SLAPP blocks mining company suit as abuse of process in South Africa

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Coffee Bay is a tourist destination on the Eastern Cape. ( photo by Jon Rawlinson CC BY 2.0 ) Two weeks ago, a South African court recogni...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Mass. anti-panhandling law violates First Amendment

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Flickr by Alex Proimos CC BY-NC 2.0 The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court yesterday struck down a state anti-panhandling statute as a ...
Monday, November 18, 2019

It's not just whistleblower law; First Amendment public employee-speech doctrine is in disarray

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You might have heard some wrangling in the news about whistleblowers.  They're all the rage, lately, even here and there on this blog....
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Saturday, November 9, 2019

Radiolab ponders journalists who would undo what they wrought

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Radiolab tackled the "right to be forgotten," U.S. style, back in August, and I missed it.  Hat tip at On the Media , which just ...
Friday, August 16, 2019

LatAm NGOs propose model of internet platform self‑regulation consistent with human rights

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NGOs working on the project, from the report. Now published online and open for comment are "Contributions for the Democratic Regu...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Polish court enjoins Facebook 'private censorship':
just one sign of new norms in digital rights

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Much worry about censorship today focuses on the private sector, specifically and especially the large tech companies--Google, Facebook, Twi...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Journalism is dead. Long live journalism.

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ournalism is no longer a viable business model, and it’s not coming back.   Journalism is on life support.   And we have to decide what t...