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  Courtney Love's Inflammatory Tweets Land Her In Court
  Twitter and Courtney Love are a toxic cocktail.
  by dmdo / on Nov 17, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “libel”

• Straw commits to libel reform

  
  Index on Censorship — Authority: 573
  The Justice Secretary is reported to have pledged to make English defamation laws fairer. Index on Censorship reports Jack Straw has acknowledged that English defamation laws “incentivise libel tourism” and has pledged to address curbs on the UK and international press. In a report in the Sunday Times, Straw ...
  14 hours ago

• “Judge dismisses lawsuit claiming Miley Cyrus’ pic discriminated against Asians”

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 638
  “The novel legal claim was filed by Lucie J. Kim in a class action suit against the singer earlier this year that sought $4,000 in damages for each Asian and Pacific Islander living in Los Angeles County.” Kim complained that Cyrus was photographed with an Asian friend and other friends pulling back their ...
  17 hours ago

• The Insecure Critic | ‘McLibel’ Burrito Revolution

  
  Downtown Phoenix Journal — Authority: 502
  McLibel According to Netflix, I enjoy “cerebral documentaries,” so I figured I would run with it and watch yet another of its recommended movies, a documentary by Franny Armstrong called McLibel . It documents the longest trial in English history, the defamation trial of anti-McDonald’s activists Helen Steel ...
  1 day ago

• Presentation: Law for bloggers and journalists (UK)

  
  Online Journalism Blog — Authority: 639
  Yesterday I hosted a session on law for my MA Online Journalism students, which I thought I would embed below. Some background: I teach all my sessions in a coffee shop in central Birmingham – anyone can drop in. This week I specifically invited local bloggers, and so the shape of the presentation was very much ...
  2 days ago

• On Naver, the Anti English Spectrum, and whats next

  
  Chris Backe - AKA Chris in South Korea — Authority: 468
  Source: The Korea Herald , as edited from the Anti-English Spectrums website. The K-blogosphere is fast. Really fast. Im sometimes amazed at how blogs like Brian in Jeollanam-do , Gusts of Popular Feeling , and First-Level Korean (among many others) can put ...
  2 days ago

• Hoffman Blames ACORN for NY-23

  
  WOK3 — Authority: 485
  The GOP insists that ACORN is stealing elections, and while they are a convenient target, if someone is looking for election fraud, they need look no further than the friends of the conservative party. From the movie “Uncounted” This is from Conservative Party member Doug Hoffman’s web page ...
  2 days ago

• Pro bono and reduced-fee legal help for bloggers/journalists

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 490
  Have legal matters like those entangling bloggers like Spiritual Samurai(blog deleted) and FBC Jax Watchdog left you wary of either nonprofit public service blogging or information service entrepreneurialism?For those serious about public-interest information gathering and publication, there is a new source of ...
  2 days ago

• Its okay to dis Annie Lennox, says the judge

  
  No Rock And Roll Fun — Authority: 449
  Its not often you hear a judge talking sense, but Mrs Justice Sharp has done us all a favour by kicking out an attempt to sue the Telegraph. Petra Ecclestone had been kicking up a legal rumpus because of an item in the diary: [F]ashion designer Petra Ecclestone was quoted as saying: "I am not a veggie and I dont ...
  3 days ago

• Daily Specials

  
  K Street Cafe — Authority: 410
  Can the law keep up with technology? (CNN Tech) As technology lurches forward at an astounding speed, legal issues are emerging just as fast.  A legal system at least five years behind developing technology is at a loss for how to handle issues such as lawsuits derived from posts on social networking sites. Census ...
  3 days ago

• Influence

  
  Joanna Geary — Authority: 529
  It was a shame that I couldn’t stay longer at the 140 Character conference at O2 Indigo yesterday. But, in the short time I was there, I did get to listen to a very interesting talk by Stephen Fry . How Stephen is discovering, using, experiencing and reacting to Twitter is fascinating. One point he made ...
  3 days ago

• Keeping Up With Media Law

  
  Erik Sherman's WriterBiz — Authority: 113
  The law moves slowly - as it should. Whether common law or statute, you want relatively stable rules of the road so you can live your life and do business with some degree of predictability. And when youre in the media - and pretty much everyone reading this blog is likely in the media - law becomes particularly ...
  4 days ago

• The Sound of Crickets

  
  Theology Today — Authority: 118
  On todays episode I ask lay apologist Roderick Edwards to support his claim that Dr. Kenneth Talbot, President of Whitefield Theological Seminary “buys his influence”.I also briefly discuss a rant Edwards directed at Talbot via mass email and posted here. Edwards accusation can be found here. Tagged: Crickets, ...
  4 days ago

• Harvard Officials Are Fossilized Mollusks, Suffragist Says

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 470
  In her opening address to a mass meeting for womens suffrage last night at Carnegie Hall, Frances Squire Potter compared Harvard officials to fossilized mollusks for blocking admission last month to Inez Milholland, a Vassar graduate who had been accepted into Harvard Law.
  4 days ago

• Is the price of freedom $95,000?

  
  The Daily Clarity — Authority: 129
  Press freedom should not be bought at all, and never cheaply. Freedom has been fought for in blood, sear, tears and sacrifice. The US bought democracy for Iraq expensively. It lost treasure, it lost moral authority, it paid a dearer price than perhaps was warranted.  However, that hard fought win is now under threat. ...
  4 days ago

• Libel Tourism Case Dismissed Because Little Evidence Of UK Visit...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Weve discussed how the UK is used for "libel tourism" quite frequently, since its libel laws are more draconian than elsewhere. Thus, if someone is upset about what someone else has said about them, theyll often file a lawsuit in the UK, arguing that because the content is available online, its been "published" in the ...
  5 days ago

• High Court: Online article with only four visits not libel

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 141
  High Court: Online article with only four visits not libel : “ Claimants told where to go in no uncertain terms A libel action over an article that appeared on the website of a South African magazine has been dismissed by a court in England. Evidence suggested that the article had received only four visits from ...
  5 days ago

• Libel reform: Carter-Ruck defends defamation rules

  
  Index on Censorship — Authority: 573
  Libel lawyers Carter-Ruck have responded to English PEN and Index on Censorship’s libel reform report. By Padraig Reidy Nigel Tait, senior partner at defamation specialists Carer-Ruck, has defended the Duke of Brunswick rule, which establishes the multiple publication precedent in English libel law. In an ...
  5 days ago

• Andrew Sullivan’s blog reportedly has an obsessive reader (not us)

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 582
  “Sources with access to Palin have indeed told to me that the Wasilla whack-job was an obsessive reader of this blog as it dared to ask factual questions about her past that could be easily answered.” Super-blogger (and SFB fave) Andrew Sullivan • Posting yesterday about Sarah Palin, who reportedly wanted to ...
  6 days ago

• @mmmKikiKannibal reaches new low

  
  StickyDrama — Authority: 147
  In a world where people pay less and less attention to her every day, Kiki decided to post a picture of herself menstruating. I’m not even kidding. Caption: Oh hello Eve have you seen Adam? Lmfao IM NaSTii*** Kiki, I’d like to personally voice my disgust. Also posted on the scenewhore’s twitter today: Jake ...
  1 week ago

• Coalition of non-profit news organizations gets funding

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 696
  The Investigative News Network , a coalition of nonprofit news organizations that met for the first time this summer, is getting closer to launch: They’ve raised more than $500,000, one of the group’s leaders said today. We first wrote about INN after their meeting in Pocantico Hills, N.Y. , where the leaders ...
  1 week ago

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