Epstein, Southwestern Law School, has published Social Media and 'Flash Infringement': Live Music Culture and Dying IP Protection in volume 3 of Belmont Law Review (2016). Michael M. MORE
Some are relatively well-known, particularly those which identify people in online social networks and photo storage services. Does facial recognition technology clash with a consumer’s rights in a way that “manual” tagging of photographs by social media users would not? Privacy Social Media Technology Biometric Information Privacy Act Facial recognition NTIA meetings MORE
Tuomo Mörä, University of Helsinki, has published The Challenge of Internet and Social Media on Shield Law Legislation: The Four Dimensions of Reporter's Privilege. MORE
The 7th Circuit court of appeals yesterday declared an outright ban on social media usage by convicted sex offenders to be a violation of the First Amendment. Turning to the Indiana statute, the state agrees there is nothing dangerous about Doe’s use of social media as long as he does not improperly communicate with minors. Further, there is no disagreement that illicit communication comprises a minuscule subset of the universe of social network activity. MORE
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We have written about this issue before (see for instance our posts here and here ), but what makes these issues worth writing about again is that several of the recent suits involve not just the unauthorized use of a photograph on a station’s website, but the use of photos in social media posts including tweets on Twitter and posts on Facebook. But isn’t that what these social media sites are for – sharing content? MORE
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via President Obama’s Farewell Address on Social Media’s Threat to Democracy — Artist Rights Watch. The good thing about Facebook is that it brings people together in new communities. The bad thing about Facebook is that some of those people previously only met on Death Row. And as Sartre said, hell is other people. Facebook Meltdown Uncategorized President Eisenhower President Obama MORE
Contiguglia The 7th Circuit court of appeals Wednesday declared an outright ban on social media usage by convicted sex offenders to be a violation of the First Amendment. By Andrew J. At the crux of the arguments is the public’s right to be protected from convicted sex offenders and the offender’s right to send and [.]. Civil Liberties First Amendment MORE
To what extent do federal courts use social media to communicate with the public or for other purposes? The survey found that out of the 135 courts that responded, just 21 (15.6%) used social media. Seventeen others said that they planned to start using social [.]. MORE
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Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), has published Denial, Memory Bans and Social Media. Robert Kahn, University of St. Here is the abstract. We live in an age of ready availability of information… including hate speech, genocide denial and narratives of MORE
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Readers who click on social media posts are taken to a page branded to the lawyer. For lawyers, the problem with blogs and social media is that they take time. The post Scroll Wants To Be The ‘Control Tower’ For Your Firm’s Blogs and Social Media appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. And who has any excess of that? This is the problem that a relatively new company called Scroll aims to solve, for both large and […]. MORE
Alysia Blackham, University of Cambridge, and George Williams, University of New South Wales, have published Australian Courts and Social Media in volume 38 or the Alternative Law Journal (2013). Social media, like Facebook and Twitter, are Here is the abstract. MORE
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Last week, we wrote about legal issues for podcasters , and made the point that media companies should be making clear by contract or otherwise who owns the podcasts that their employees and independent contractors have created. For readers of this blog, what it does is reiterate our suggestion last week that media companies make sure that it is clear, in legally binding documents, who owns intellectual property created by employees and contractors. MORE
Bruce Etling, Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet & Society has published Russia, Ukraine, and the West: Social Media Sentiment in the Euromaidan Protests as Berkman Center Research Publication No. MORE
There is certainly reason to doubt sometimes, given the frequency of fake and spoof social-media accounts. government has a web page that lets you verify whether a social media account is really managed by the U.S. Federal Government Social Media Accounts | USA.gov. MORE
The media company finds itself in the middle of a war of words between two reality stars on Facebook. read more. THR, Esq. Business Television Tech Business THR Online MORE
Contiguglia The 7th Circuit court of appeals Wednesday declared an outright ban on social media usage by convicted sex offenders to be a violation of the First Amendment. By Andrew J. At the crux of the arguments is the public’s right to be protected from convicted sex offenders and the offender’s right to send and [.]. Civil Liberties First Amendment MORE
Ashley Messenger, American University, has published Rethinking the Right of Publicity in the Context of Social Media. Here is the abstract. This paper, inspired by a tweet by Chevy (the maker of Corvette) after Prince's death in 2016, explores whether MORE
A carpet cleaning company went to court to argue the USOC was exaggerating its legal rights, but a judge won't hear it. read more. THR, Esq. Business Television Tech Business THR Online MORE
You may remember reading here about ClearView Social, the social media sharing app designed for lawyers by social media marketing consultant Adrian Dayton. The post Social Media Sharing App for Lawyers is Launched appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. Last May, I wrote a post critical of the idea, but after talking to Dayton and seeing a demonstration, I softened my position. Those posts were about an early, beta version of […]. MORE
Regime Responses to The Political Uses of Social Media, as an APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Philip N. Howard, Sheetal D. Agarwal, and Muzammil M. Hussain, Department of Communication, University of Washington, have published When Do States Disconnect Their Digital Networks? MORE
Valerie Steeves, University of Ottawa, Criminology, has published 'Pretty and Just a Little Bit Sexy, I Guess': Publicity, Privacy, and the Pressure to Perform 'Appropriate' Femininity on Social Media in eGirls, eCitizens: Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with MORE
Almost every week, we write about some legal issue that arises in digital and social media – many times talking about the traditional media company that did something that they shouldn’t have done in the online world, and ended up with some legal issues as a result. MORE
Alexander Tsesis, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, is publishing Terrorist Speech on Social Media in volume 70 of the Vanderbilt Law Review (2017). MORE
Blake Anthony Klinkner, Independent, has published Do You Have a First Amendment Right to Social Media? in volume 40 of The Wyoming Lawyer (April 2017). Here is the abstract. This article analyzes recent court decisions, and a pending case before MORE
Koenig, Northeastern University and Michael L> Rustad, Suffolk University Law School, have published Fundamentally Unfair: An Empirical Analysis of Social Media Arbitration Clauses at 65 Case Western Reserve Law Review 341 (2014). Thomas H. MORE
Rachel Elizabeth VanLandingham, Southwestern Law School, is publishing Jailing the Twitter Bird: Social Media, Material Support to Terrorism, and Muzzling the Modern Press in the Cardozo Law Review. Social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter MORE
Alexander Tsesis, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, is publishing Social Media Accountability for Terrorist Propaganda in volume 86 of the Fordham Law Review (2017). Terrorist organizations have found social media websites to be invaluable for MORE
Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, University of Florida Levin College of Law, has published Incendiary Speech and Social Media in volume 44 of the Texas Tech Law Review (2011). Incidents illustrating the incendiary capacity of social media have Here is the abstract. MORE
The Misguided Proliferation of Restrictive Social Networking Policies for School Employees in volume 9 of the Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy (2014). Janet R. Decker, Indiana University, has published Facebook Phobia! Here is the abstract. Employers have dismissed MORE
The Court ruled that the law imposed “a sweeping ban on many commonly read news and information websites,” as well as social networking sites. I ran across these two court decisions recently. Two very different interpretations of First Amendment Protection. . PFLAG v. Camdenton School Dist. MORE
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