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• Roy Greenslade: Buscombe makes PCC funding plea in first speech

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 139
  So what should we make of the first major speech, delivered last night to the Society of Editors conference , by Lady (Peta) Buscombe ? It ranged over many topics - reform of the House of Lords, the anti-democratic nature of super-injunctions , a plug for commercial media (plus a slap for search engines) and a ...
  10 hours ago

• The Great Climate Hoax

  
  Sierra Faith — Authority: 136
  Must see 28 minutes from Finnish Television (not to worry, there are subtitles). We are being lied to, and the lies are blatant. All in the name of money and increased governmental control. It begins with the story of how Steve McIntyre has had to beg scientists to behave like scientists (rather than political ...
  12 hours ago

• Letters: No Iraqi crackdown on media freedom

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  In response to the articles published on 11 November regarding the ruling by an Iraqi court to award damages to the prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, for an article written by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and published in the Guardian in April, the Islamic Dawa party (IDP) wishes to clarify that the prime minister and his ...
  19 hours ago

• PCC chair attacks super-injunctions

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  • Lady Buscombe calls on government to curb use • Gagging orders condemned as anathema to democracy The chair of the Press Complaints Commission has defended its role as an independent watchdog and attacked so-called "super-injunctions" to keep legal action against the press secret. In her first major speech in ...
  23 hours ago

• Vote Social Media Law Student #weblogawards

  
  Social Media Law Student — Authority: 426
  Vote for Social Media Law Student Blog for 2009 weblog awards. Place the following in the comments section of the “law blog” awards: Social Media Law Student http://socialmedialawstudent.com/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/socialmedialawstudent or simply click the + sign next to our nomination. Click the banner ...
  1 day ago

• A Vision of K-12 Students Today

  
  Social Media Law Student — Authority: 426
  A Vision of K-12 Students Today. Should be applied to all levels of education. UPDATE: Was sent this shortly after making this post. Hat Tip: @cfanch Related posts: Law School 2.0: Legal Education for a Digital Age [Book Review] Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools – Join the Discussion! ...
  2 days ago

• Will flat-screen TV prices drop to sub-”bonehead” levels?

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 678
  Image: fcc.gov As the holidays approach, prices are falling on flat-screen TVs like the ones that Gov. Pawlenty had removed from the Minnesota Correctional Facility at Moose Lake. Which suggests a dilemma: at what price point can the state ethically buy 50-inch TVs for sex offenders? At $1,500 each, plus ...
  2 days ago

• New York Times: Two German Killers Demanding Anonymity Sue Wikipedia’s Parent

  
  Martin Stabe — Authority: 433
  "Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber became infamous for killing a German actor in 1990. Now they are suing to force Wikipedia to forget them. The legal fight pits German privacy law against the American First Amendment."
  3 days ago

• Convenience is King

  
  Concurring Opinions — Authority: 594
  A recent article in the Boston Review by Evgeny Morozov laments the influence of Wikipedia. I found this passage a particularly interesting take on the epistemology (and ecology) of the web: Wikipedians . . . are obsessed with popular culture and less equipped to document the high-brow. The 711-word entry on ...
  3 days ago

• Court of protection opened to media

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Outlets including the Guardian win right to attend hearings held in normally secretive court about celebrity with learning difficulties A secretive court will open to the media for the first time after a judgment lifted the lid on proceedings concerning a celebrity with severe learning difficulties. In a case being ...
  4 days ago

• Comedian: 118 118 lifted my catchphrase

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Out out skit from BBC1s Michael McIntyres Comedy Roadshow used as basis for animated 118 118 ad, says comic A stand-up comedian who has appeared on BBC1 and had a show on Radio 4 is considering taking legal action against the directory enquiry company 118 118 for allegedly using his routine in its TV campaign. Micky ...
  4 days ago

• Roy Greenslade: Journalists must promise not to use the libel law

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 139
  It is time for newspaper publishers, editors and journalists to stop using the libel law. We must all make a pledge never to sue for libel as long as the current law remains on the statute book. I made that point at yesterdays launch of Free speech is not for sale , a report produced by Index on Censorship and ...
  5 days ago

• NLA and NewsNow: the battle is now about subscription services

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  The dispute between the Newspaper Licensing Agency and the content aggregator NewsNow is intensifying. The lawyers have met, to backdrop of a lot of public interest . But while the severe dispute between NewsNow and the NLA (disclosure: NLA is partly owned by the Guardian) sounded first like Murdoch v Google ...
  6 days ago

• Iraqi court rules Guardian defamation

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Court orders Guardian to pay prime minister damages over article that quoted allegations of increasing authoritarianism An Iraqi court has ordered the Guardian to pay Nouri al-Maliki damages of 100m dinar (£52,000) after supporting a complaint by the Iraqi prime ministers intelligence service that he had been ...
  6 days ago

• English libel law stifles freedom of expression worldwide

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Our libel law is out of kilter with the rest of the democratic world, encouraging libel tourism and the erosion of free speech in other countries, writes Simon Singh I have just returned from the launch of Free Speech is Not For Sale , the report of a year-long inquiry into the impact of English libel law on ...
  6 days ago

• Parliament must act on libel

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  With firms like Carter Ruck questioning the law, MPs can no longer ignore the clamour for change You know there is something wrong with libel law when even Carter-Ruck – mother of all libel firms and regular claimant against newspapers (including the Guardian) – welcomes the idea of change. Today even free ...
  6 days ago

• Any editor of integrity would quit the PCC, says lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Human rights lawyer attacks press watchdog as campaign to reform libel laws is launched Leading human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC attacked the Press Complaints Commission today, calling on any "editor of integrity" to quit the industry regulator. In a hard-hitting speech at the launch of the libel reform ...
  6 days ago

• Foreign media count cost of UK libel laws

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Britains reputation for "libel tourism" is driving American and foreign publishers to consider abandoning the sale of newspaper and magazines in Britain and may lead to them blocking access to websites, MPs have been warned. Publishers, human rights groups and campaigners have expressed "substantial and increasing ...
  1 week ago

• Sunday Times: Libel threat to force US papers out of Britain

  
  Martin Stabe — Authority: 433
  ...And not just in print: "The National Enquirer, based in Miami, blocked British readers after it was successfully sued in London by Cameron Diaz, the Hollywood actress. Her lawyers showed that an article she deemed defamatory had been viewed 279 times by British internet users. ... Some of the most prestigious US ...
  1 week ago

• Bid to block paedophiles from Facebook fails

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Government plan to stop sex offenders using social networking sites would breach human rights law Government plans to block paedophiles from using social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have been shelved because of fears that such a move would breach human rights laws. The Home Office announced in ...
  1 week ago

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