Media Law Prof Blog
Features news, issues and analysis related to media law topics.
Author: Christine A. Corcos, an associate professor of law at Louisiana State University, edits the Media Law Prof Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Professors • Media & Communications Law • Louisiana State University • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Media Law Prof Blog
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Comcast Gets Strict With Customers
Comcast is putting its customers on an Internet diet, beginning in October. It's now telling users they may only upload and download 250 gigabytes a month. It has already begun a policy of cutting off…
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COWs, COLTs, and GOATs Ready For Gustav
According to an article by AP reporter Peter Svensson, Hurricane Gustav may test whether the nation's wireless carriers have figured out how to respond to natural disasters. They've come up with a menagerie of equipment…
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Tropical Storm (Soon To Be Hurricane) Gustav Update
It looks like Gustav is headed our way and will hit as at least a Cat 3, and maybe a Cat 4, so we may be without power for some time next week, perhaps starting…
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Publisher Asks For Verdict, Jury Award, To Be Overturned in Defonseca Case
Jane Daniel, the publisher of Mt. Ivy Press, is seeking to have a judgment against her overturned after the plaintiff in that lawsuit, Misha Defonseca, admitted earlier this year that statements in the book Ms.…
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Nicholas Kristof on Media Ethics
Nicholas Kristof discusses his reporting on the anthrax investigation involving Dr. Steven Hatfill and apologizes to Dr. Hatfill, offers some hypotheticals involving other high profile cases, and wonders about when reporters report, and when they…
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Blogger Arraigned On Charges of Violating Copyright After Posting Guns 'n Roses Songs To Website
The BBC reports that blogger Kevin Cogill has made bail after being arraigned on charges of having violated the copyright laws for posting nine Guns 'n Roses songs on his website. The songs are believed…
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Mail On Sunday Apologizes To Sir Salman Rushdie Over Excerpts From Book
The Guardian reports that the Mail on Sunday says it will apologize to author Salman Rushdie for reprinting statements from a book it excerpted; Sir Salman won a libel judgment against the book's author, Ron…
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Mail On Sunday Apologizes To Sir Salman Rushdie Over Excerpts From Book
The Guardian reports that the Mail on Sunday says it will apologize to author Salman Rushdie for reprinting statements from a book it excerpted; Sir Salman won a libel judgment against the book's author, Ron…
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Mail On Sunday Apologizes To Sir Salman Rushdie Over Excerpts From Book
The Guardian reports that the Mail on Sunday says it will apologize to author Salman Rushdie for reprinting statements from a book it excerpted; Sir Salman won a libel judgment against the book's author, Ron…
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U. S. Patent Office Will Continue To Re-Examine Blackboard Patent
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the U.S. Patent Office has denied a request from Blackboard, the course management software company, to stay a review of a patent the Office had granted the company.…