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NYU Law Professor Charged With Criminal Libel in French Court for Refusing to Take Down Critical Book Review

Submitted by Sam Bayard on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 18:09

Many others already have

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  • France

Subject Area: 

  • Defamation
  • Third-Party Content
  • Criminal
  • Legal Threat
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Commentary on Obama/Palin Image Generates Questionable DMCA Takedown Notice

Submitted by David OBrien on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 14:45

Last Friday, political commenter and blogger Patrick Frey of Patterico's Pontifications found a chilly email waiting in his inbox.

Content Type: 

  • Photo

Subject Area: 

  • Copyright
  • Fair Use
  • DMCA
  • Legal Threat
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Kim Kardashian Finds Herself in a Low Calorie Twitter Mess

Submitted by David OBrien on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 17:39

Last week, celebrity, model, socialite, and actress Kim Kardashian found herself in diet hell.  Dr. Sanford Siegal, creator of the "Cookie Diet," and his Company, Dr.

Jurisdiction: 

  • Florida

Subject Area: 

  • Defamation
  • Legal Threat
  • Twitter
  • Social Media
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Man Bites Dog: Prosecutor Pays a Price for Chasing Commenters

Submitted by Eric P. Robinson on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 17:40

When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news. — attributed to  New York Sun city editor John B.

Jurisdiction: 

  • Oklahoma

Subject Area: 

  • Criminal
  • Legal Threat
  • Anonymity
  • Subpoenas
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Arkansas Judge Tosses Defamation Lawsuit Against Dixie Chicks Over "West Memphis Three" Letter

Submitted by Sam Bayard on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 17:38

Yesterday, a federal district court in Arkansas dismissed Terry Hobbs' defamation lawsuit against Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines and her band mates over a letter published on the band's website and MySpace blog. 

Jurisdiction: 

  • Arkansas

Subject Area: 

  • Defamation
  • Legal Threat
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Fox News DMCA-Bombs News1News on YouTube

Submitted by Arthur Bright on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 16:08

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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  • Video

Subject Area: 

  • Copyright
  • Fair Use
  • DMCA
  • Legal Threat
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Jim Dolan Shows Why Anti-SLAPP Laws Are Good (And Why New York Needs a Better One)

Submitted by Arthur Bright on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 17:07

Now, I am not from New York.  Thus, I don't know much about Jim Dolan, the owner of Cablevision, Newsday, Madison Square Garden, and the New York Knicks.  But the local press offers a sense of the man.  The New York Daily News said that he is "a little bit wacky, lashing out indiscriminately behind the scenes, speaking nonsense whenever he talks at all.&q

Jurisdiction: 

  • New York

Subject Area: 

  • Defamation
  • SLAPP
  • Legal Threat
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His Identity Revealed, Publisher of Glenn Beck Parody Site Comes Out Swinging

Submitted by Sam Bayard on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 11:10

We reported earlier this month that Glenn Beck filed a UDRP action against glennbeckrapedandmurdereda younggirlin1990.com seeking transfer of the domain name.  Beck alleges that the website, which instantiates

Jurisdiction: 

  • International

Subject Area: 

  • Defamation
  • Privacy
  • Trademark
  • Legal Threat
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Anonymity
  • Gripe Sites
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And You Thought Today's Google Outage Was Bad...

Submitted by Kimberley Isbell on Thu, 09/24/2009 - 20:48

Twitter has been awash today in the typical gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes that accompanies any Gmail outage, no matter how short the duration.  If yesterday's court ruling holds, however,

Jurisdiction: 

  • California

Subject Area: 

  • Legal Threat
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All That Glitters Isn't Gold

Submitted by Kimberley Isbell on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 17:16

If you've spent any time in front of a television screen during the last year, you've seen the ads.

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  • Defamation
  • Section 230
  • Legal Threat
  • Trade Libel
  • Business Torts
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