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The MPAA Lottery: Town of Coshocton Draws the Black Spot

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“’It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,' Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.”
- The Lottery, Shirley Jackson

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Fox News DMCA-Bombs News1News on YouTube

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Like many former newspaper employees, I hate the 24-hour "news" networks.  Be it Fox News, MSNBC, or CNN, I think they're just across-the-board awful.  The only time I'll pay any attention to them is in the midst of some event that demands real-time attention, say a presidential election or a terrorist attack (and even then, I may just switch to BBC coverage instead).  Other than in those situations, the news channels are just echo chambers for the dreck spewed by your Becks, O'Rei

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Hipcheck16 Is No Turk 182 - But Anonymous Political Speech Is Sacred

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This one is a little disturbing.

Political Race Gets Nasty

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The Cartman Technique: How a Fraud Exception will Mine the ISP Safe Harbor

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[A]ll it takes to kill a show forever, is to get one episode pulled. If we convince the network to pull this episode for the sake of Muslims, then the Catholics can demand a show they don't like get pulled . . . and so on and so on, until Family Guy is no more - it's exactly what happened to Laverne & Shirley.- Eric Cartman, South Park , Cartoon Wars I

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"I Know It When I See It." The View from Where?

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Jeffrey A. Kilbride and James Robert Schaffer are spammers.  They sent millions of unsolicited e-mails advertising pornographic web sites, and were paid a fee whenever a recipient of their e-mails purchased a subscription to one of the sites, earning a total of $1.1 million.

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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Hears Oral Argument in Anti-SLAPP Case

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On Monday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) heard oral argument in Fustolo v.Hollander, No.

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Senate Puts Bloggers Back in the Federal Shield Bill

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On Friday, Senators Arlen Specter (D-PA) and Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) released a revised version of the proposed federal shield bill (S. 448), which expands the bill's coverage to bloggers and other amateur journalists publishing on the Internet.

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A New Leistungsschutzrecht? Say It's Nicht So!

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It's tough being a publisher these days.  Of course, no one is having much fun in the current economic downturn, but publishers were up against it even before the slowdown.  Circulations have been down across the board for years now, which in turn has slashed the advertising revenues that print publications have always relied upon to survive.  It's just a bad time to be publishing newspapers and magazines, at least while using the classical publishing business model.

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You Have Questions? CMLP Has (Tools to Help You Find) Answers.

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"How do I get media liability insurance?"  It's a question we hear a lot here at CMLP. 

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It's Election Time Again: CMLP Announces Updated Guide to Newsgathering at the Polls

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Voters head to the polls again on November 3 to cast their ballots in mayoral, city council, and even a handful of gubernatorial elections.  In addition, there are some important ballot measures up for consideration, like the referendum in Maine seeking repeal of the state's newly enacted statute legal

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The Online Odyssey: Internet Use in the Age of HADOPI's Scylla and Holder's Charybdis

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Last week was a tough one for Internet users worldwide.

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Yet Another Plaintiff Faceplant, Thanks to Section 230

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I am constantly impressed with plaintiffs' hapless charges against the nearly impenetrable immunity that is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (“Section 230”).  Time and time again, angry plaintiffs bring suit against websites because some unknown third party posted questionable, if not illegal, material.  And time and time again, those claims are stymied by Section 230, which grants the websites immunity from liability for those third-party postings.  Seriously

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Swartz v. Does: Tennessee Court Says Couple Entitled to Unmask Anonymous Blogger

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A Tennessee state court ruled earlier this month that plaintiffs Donald and Terry Keller Swartz are entitled to discover the identity of the anonymous blogger behind the Stop Swartz blog who published critical statements about them and encouraged readers to post information on their whereabouts and activities.

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Finkel v. Facebook: Court Rejects Defamation Claim Against Facebook Premised on "Ownership" of User Content

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Back in February, Denise Finkel, a 2008 graduate of Oceanside High School on Long Island, sued four of her former high school classmates and their parents after the students created a private Facebook group called "90 Cents Short of a Dollar," which allegedly contained false and defamatory statements about her. 

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NEEEEEDDDD BRAAAAINNS: MPAA Resurrects Plan to Take the R Out of DVRs

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Between sparkling vampires and slobbering zombies, the Undead have found new life at the

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