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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
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
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
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
Martinez Sierra have published Algorithms and the News: Social Media Platforms as News Publishers and Distributors at 18 Revista De Comunicación 261-285 (2019). With billons of users, social media platforms (e.g.Rodrigo Cetina Presuel and J. MORE
56 Frank Fagan, EDHEC Business School, is publishing Systemic Social Media Regulation in the Duke Law & Technology Review. Social media platforms are motivated by profit, corporate image, long-term viability, good citizenship, and a desire for friendly MORE
JoAnne Sweeny, University of Louisville School of Law has published Sexting and Freedom of Expression: A Comparative Approach in volume 102 of the Kentucky Law Journal (2013/2014). Here is the abstract. According to a recent poll, one in four American MORE
Matthew Seipel, UCLA School of Law, has published How the Press Violates the NLRA: The Social Media Policies of News Companies. When does a news company’s social media rule violate the NLRA? MORE
Milton Mueller, Georgia Institute of Technology, is publishing Challenging the Social Media Moral Panic: Preserving Free Expression Under Hypertransparency in Cato Institute Policy Analysis (no. 876, 2019 Social media MORE
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
With the online shopping season in full swing, the FTC decided that online retailers might benefit from a reminder as to the dos and don’ts for social media influencers. Thus, the FTC released a new guide, “ Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers ,” that reiterates its repeated position about the responsibility of “influencers” to disclose “material” connections with brands when endorsing products in online posts. MORE
As technology outpaces the laws that seek to govern its use, questions are being raised about who can control the flow of information and how, exactly, the freedoms of speech and petition come into play. read more. THR, Esq. Tech Tech THR Online MORE
ReliefWeb » Document » Iraq / Wikileaks: statement by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights GENEVA (26 October 2010)– "The files reportedly indicate that the US knew, among other things, about widespread use of torture and ill-treatment of detainees by Iraqi forces, and yet proceeded with the transfer of thousands of persons who had been detained by US forces to Iraqi custody between early 2009 and July 2010. MORE
Wildman, Michigan State University; Quello Center, have published Social Media Definition and the Governance Challenge: An Introduction to Jonathan A. Obar, University of Toronto, Faculty of Information & Michigan State University, College of Communication Arts & Sciences, and Steven S. MORE
From CNN: Both Facebook and YouTube announced on Friday that they are removing mentions of the whistleblower's name from their platforms, citing concerns that such content could could lead to harm and pointing to their policy prohibiting "outing of witness MORE
Here’s a few examples of what the Twitter campaign against Article 13 looks like, draw your own conclusions: Article 13 Fake News 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
Michael Douglas, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, has published ‘Their Evil Lies in the Grapevine Effect’: Assessment of Damages in Defamation by Social Media at 20 Media and Arts Review 367 (2015). MORE
Ira Steven Nathenson, St. Thomas University School of Law, has published Super-Intermediaries, Code, Human Rights at 8 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 19 (2013). Here is the abstract. We live in an age of intermediated network communications. Although the internet MORE
The television personality alleges her former employer violated both criminal and civil law. read more. THR, Esq. Business Television Business THR Online 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
James Grimmelmann, University of Maryland School of Law, has published The Law and Ethics of Experiments on Social Media Users at 13 Colorado Technology Law Journal 219 (2015). MORE
Discipline and Dismissal for Social Media Activity in the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations Virginia Mantouvalou, University College London, Faculty of Law, is publishing ‘I Lost My Job Over a Facebook Post – Was that Fair?’ 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
With broadcasters and other media companies encouraging their public personalities to be active on social media, make sure that these personalities are warned to be cautious about what they post – as your media company does not want to be the “deep pocket” that someone who feels wronged by a social media posts comes after in a lawsuit. Can retweeting or sharing someone else’s content get you into trouble? 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
Kathleen Hidy, Xavier University College of Business, is publishing Social Media Use and Viewpoint Discrimination: A First Amendment Judicial Tightrope Walk With Rights and Risks Hanging in the Balance in the Marquette Law Review. MORE
Gardner, United States District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro has ruled that a New Hampshire statute prohibiting individuals from posting images of their filled-in ballots on social media violates the First Amendment. In Rideout v. MORE
TRANSCRIPT: Do you need to clear music rights for your social-media advertising campaigns? And, if not ,what do we need if it is only through social media platforms (Facebook and Instagram)? Firemark - Los Angeles Entertainment Lawyers - Theatre, Film, TV & New Media. 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
Senator Josh Hawley recently introduced the The Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology (SMART) Act which is legislation to go after social media addiction. All the legislation in the world is unlikely to resolve these underlying social issues. MORE
John Samples, Cato Institute, has published Why the Government Should Not Regulate Content Moderation of Social Media as Cato Institute Policy Analysis, No. 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
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
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
First Amendment Watch surveys the legal landscape: Can Elected Officials Block Critics On Their Social Media Pages? Some cases of interest: Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump The Bonnen lawsuit (Texas) Davison v. Loudoun County Board of Supervisors More discussion 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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AUGUST 26, 2019
First Amendment Watch surveys the legal landscape: Can Elected Officials Block Critics On Their Social Media Pages? Some cases of interest: Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump The Bonnen lawsuit (Texas) Davison v. Loudoun County Board of Supervisors More discussion
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JANUARY 8, 2020
Milton Mueller, Georgia Institute of Technology, is publishing Challenging the Social Media Moral Panic: Preserving Free Expression Under Hypertransparency in Cato Institute Policy Analysis (no. 876, 2019 Social media
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New Media and Technology Law
DECEMBER 4, 2019
With the online shopping season in full swing, the FTC decided that online retailers might benefit from a reminder as to the dos and don’ts for social media influencers. Thus, the FTC released a new guide, “ Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers ,” that reiterates its repeated position about the responsibility of “influencers” to disclose “material” connections with brands when endorsing products in online posts.
Music Technology Policy
AUGUST 4, 2019
Senator Josh Hawley recently introduced the The Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology (SMART) Act which is legislation to go after social media addiction. All the legislation in the world is unlikely to resolve these underlying social issues.
Media Law Prof Blog
JANUARY 14, 2020
John Samples, Cato Institute, has published Why the Government Should Not Regulate Content Moderation of Social Media as Cato Institute Policy Analysis, No.
Media Law Prof Blog
AUGUST 17, 2015
Wildman, Michigan State University; Quello Center, have published Social Media Definition and the Governance Challenge: An Introduction to Jonathan A. Obar, University of Toronto, Faculty of Information & Michigan State University, College of Communication Arts & Sciences, and Steven S.
Media Law Prof Blog
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
From CNN: Both Facebook and YouTube announced on Friday that they are removing mentions of the whistleblower's name from their platforms, citing concerns that such content could could lead to harm and pointing to their policy prohibiting "outing of witness
Gordon P. Firemark
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
TRANSCRIPT: Do you need to clear music rights for your social-media advertising campaigns? And, if not ,what do we need if it is only through social media platforms (Facebook and Instagram)? Firemark - Los Angeles Entertainment Lawyers - Theatre, Film, TV & New Media.
Media Law Prof Blog
MAY 19, 2015
James Grimmelmann, University of Maryland School of Law, has published The Law and Ethics of Experiments on Social Media Users at 13 Colorado Technology Law Journal 219 (2015).
Media Law Prof Blog
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Kathleen Hidy, Xavier University College of Business, is publishing Social Media Use and Viewpoint Discrimination: A First Amendment Judicial Tightrope Walk With Rights and Risks Hanging in the Balance in the Marquette Law Review.
Broadcast Law Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
With broadcasters and other media companies encouraging their public personalities to be active on social media, make sure that these personalities are warned to be cautious about what they post – as your media company does not want to be the “deep pocket” that someone who feels wronged by a social media posts comes after in a lawsuit. Can retweeting or sharing someone else’s content get you into trouble?
Media Law Prof Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Discipline and Dismissal for Social Media Activity in the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations Virginia Mantouvalou, University College London, Faculty of Law, is publishing ‘I Lost My Job Over a Facebook Post – Was that Fair?’
Media Law Prof Blog
MAY 9, 2018
Frank Fagan, EDHEC Business School, is publishing Systemic Social Media Regulation in the Duke Law & Technology Review. Social media platforms are motivated by profit, corporate image, long-term viability, good citizenship, and a desire for friendly
Media Law Prof Blog
MARCH 1, 2017
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.
Media Law Prof Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2017
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
The Legal Satyricon
JANUARY 25, 2013
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
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
OCTOBER 26, 2010
ReliefWeb » Document » Iraq / Wikileaks: statement by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights GENEVA (26 October 2010)– "The files reportedly indicate that the US knew, among other things, about widespread use of torture and ill-treatment of detainees by Iraqi forces, and yet proceeded with the transfer of thousands of persons who had been detained by US forces to Iraqi custody between early 2009 and July 2010.
Media Law Prof Blog
JUNE 9, 2016
Alexander Tsesis, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, is publishing Terrorist Speech on Social Media in volume 70 of the Vanderbilt Law Review (2017).
Entertainment Law
JANUARY 24, 2013
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.
Media Law Prof Blog
APRIL 14, 2015
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.
Media Law Prof Blog
JANUARY 20, 2018
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
Media Law Prof Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
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.
Media Law Prof Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2014
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.
Media Law
MARCH 29, 2013
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.
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2016
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?
Media Law Prof Blog
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
Ira Steven Nathenson, St. Thomas University School of Law, has published Super-Intermediaries, Code, Human Rights at 8 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 19 (2013). Here is the abstract. We live in an age of intermediated network communications. Although the internet
Music Technology Policy
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Here’s a few examples of what the Twitter campaign against Article 13 looks like, draw your own conclusions: Article 13 Fake News
Media Law Prof Blog
JULY 18, 2018
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
Media Law Prof Blog
OCTOBER 15, 2013
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.
Media Law Prof Blog
AUGUST 1, 2016
Michael Douglas, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, has published ‘Their Evil Lies in the Grapevine Effect’: Assessment of Damages in Defamation by Social Media at 20 Media and Arts Review 367 (2015).
Entertainment Law
FEBRUARY 18, 2012
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.
THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog
APRIL 4, 2017
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
THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog
APRIL 24, 2017
The television personality alleges her former employer violated both criminal and civil law. read more. THR, Esq. Business Television Business THR Online
THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog
JULY 5, 2017
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
Media Law Prof Blog
MAY 20, 2014
JoAnne Sweeny, University of Louisville School of Law has published Sexting and Freedom of Expression: A Comparative Approach in volume 102 of the Kentucky Law Journal (2013/2014). Here is the abstract. According to a recent poll, one in four American
Media Law Prof Blog
JANUARY 29, 2016
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
Media Law Prof Blog
JANUARY 16, 2018
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.
Media Law
JUNE 3, 2013
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 [.].
THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
As technology outpaces the laws that seek to govern its use, questions are being raised about who can control the flow of information and how, exactly, the freedoms of speech and petition come into play. read more. THR, Esq. Tech Tech THR Online
Media Law Prof Blog
NOVEMBER 22, 2016
Matthew Seipel, UCLA School of Law, has published How the Press Violates the NLRA: The Social Media Policies of News Companies. When does a news company’s social media rule violate the NLRA?
New Media and Technology Law
JUNE 23, 2015
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
Media Law Prof Blog
AUGUST 12, 2015
Gardner, United States District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro has ruled that a New Hampshire statute prohibiting individuals from posting images of their filled-in ballots on social media violates the First Amendment. In Rideout v.
Media Law Prof Blog
MARCH 17, 2015
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
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