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Tali Teeni-Harari and Sharon Yadin, both of the Peres Academic Center, are publishing Regulatory Literacy: Rethinking Television Rating in the New Media Age in volume 88 of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review (2019). Here is the abstract. Rating MORE
NOVEMBER 17, 2019
Wall Street Journal reporter Rob Copeland has unearthed another Google data scraping scandal, this time your private health information. As usual, Google doesn’t want you to focus on how they use this data in the background for data profiling in ways that you don’t know is happening and that you were never asked to consent to. The scandal isn’t that it’s illegal, the scandal is that it isn’t illegal. MORE
Is It a Crime to Encourage Unauthorized Immigration? The Supreme Court Will Decide by Adam Liptak , nytimes.com November 11, 2019 06:25 AM An appeals court struck down a broad 1986 law under the First Amendment, saying it covers conversations between family members and legal advice. MORE
If you are in the Milwaukee area, the Milwaukee Bar Association’s annual Law & Technology Conference is tomorrow. I will be there, presenting the keynote on the ethical duty of technology competence and also moderating a panel on legal analytics that features views from the bench and bar. MORE
[This post first appeared in the MusicTechPolicy Monthly newsletter. Become an email follower of this blog to get your copy.]. The Music Modernization Act is a litigation magnet because of its failure to mandate a wholistic solution to the controversial black box. There are two commercially available systems that can address the problem. MORE
Cancelling political ads that tread on (or even trample…or even incinerate) someone’s truth are all the rage. Having skimmed the cream from political ad revenue, Twitter has announced it is banning political ads to great fanfare–after the cow escaped from the barn. MORE
Last month, LinkedIn Corp. LinkedIn”) filed a petition for rehearing en banc of the Ninth Circuit’s blockbuster decision in hiQ Labs, Inc. LinkedIn Corp. , 17-16783 (9 th Cir. Sept. 9, 2019). The crucial question before the original panel concerned the scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) liability to unwanted web scraping of publicly available social media profile data and whether once hiQ Labs, Inc. (“hiQ”), MORE
Chad G. Marzen, Florida State University, has published A Constitutional Right to Public Information. Here is the abstract. In the wake of the 2013 United States Supreme Court decision of McBurney v. Young (569 U.S. 221), this Article calls for MORE
Alissa McCain will receive the 2019 Cindi Lazzari Artist Advocate Award from the Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Section (TESLAW) of the State Bar of Texas on November 20 at the InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Hotel. Alissa has twenty years of dedicated and groundbreaking artist advocacy work that has had a substantial impact on the lives of thousands of artists across Texas. MORE
When I started MusicTechPolicy in 2006, Jay Rosenthal was one of the first people in Washington policy circles who embraced me. This says much more about him than it does about me. He didn’t need to be particularly courteous to me or even acknowledge I existed. MORE
Thanksgiving, and the Winter holiday chaos that ensues are just around the corner. Once they arrive, most non-retail businesses can expect things to go into a sort of “standby” mode until after the new year. 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
"The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia was winding down, the draft of the United States’ supreme law almost finished, and George Mason, the author of Virginia’s Declaration of Rights, was becoming alarmed. MORE
We need your vote! Help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the fourth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2020. MORE
If you had to guess which legal research service law students prefer, you’d probably answer Westlaw. After all, back in the early days of legal research, West pioneered the idea of giving law students free access in the hope of creating career-long customers. MORE
CBS is asking a federal district court to dismiss Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax's defamation suit against the network, saying that Mr. Fairfax's claim that an in-house attorney who knew both Mr. Fairfax and one of the women who accused MORE
Ellen P. Goodman, Rutgers Law School, and Ryan Whittington, German Marshall Fund of the United States, has published Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and the Future of Online Speech, a Rutgers Law School Research Paper. Here is the MORE
Diogenes searched the world for an honest man, and Cloudflare is searching the world for a decider in chief to tell them what to do. MORE
“We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.”. Holly Martins in The Third Man by Graham Greene. MORE
Karl Herchenroeder reports in Communications Daily that Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has placed a “hold” on the CASE Act (the legislation creating a copyright small claims court), which essentially stops it from moving forward. We had heard this hold was in place long ago, and Rep. MORE
When I give presentations on lawyers’ ethical duty to be competent in technology, audience members often come up to me afterwards and ask something to the effect of, “Ok, I get it, but how do I become competent in technology?” MORE
[From 20 Questions for New Artists by Chris Castle and Amy Mitchell]. An independent artist is practically required to sign up with an aggregator in order to have your works serviced to many online outlets–some aggregators service hundreds of different retailers. (So So one example of a pre-existing contract under Question #10 may be a band member’s contract with a sound recording aggregator.). MORE
Gordon P. Firemark
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Thanksgiving, and the Winter holiday chaos that ensues are just around the corner. Once they arrive, most non-retail businesses can expect things to go into a sort of “standby” mode until after the new year.
Media Law Prof Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Ellen P. Goodman, Rutgers Law School, and Ryan Whittington, German Marshall Fund of the United States, has published Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and the Future of Online Speech, a Rutgers Law School Research Paper. Here is the
Music Technology Policy
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Cancelling political ads that tread on (or even trample…or even incinerate) someone’s truth are all the rage. Having skimmed the cream from political ad revenue, Twitter has announced it is banning political ads to great fanfare–after the cow escaped from the barn.
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
Media Law
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
We need your vote! Help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the fourth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2020.
New Media and Technology Law
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Last month, LinkedIn Corp. LinkedIn”) filed a petition for rehearing en banc of the Ninth Circuit’s blockbuster decision in hiQ Labs, Inc. LinkedIn Corp. , 17-16783 (9 th Cir. Sept. 9, 2019). The crucial question before the original panel concerned the scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) liability to unwanted web scraping of publicly available social media profile data and whether once hiQ Labs, Inc. (“hiQ”),
Media Law Prof Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Richard Ashby Wilson, University of Connecticut School of Law, has published The Digital Ethnography of Law: Studying Online Hate Speech Online and Offline at 3 Journal of Legal Anthropology 1 (October 2019). Here is the abstract. The ethnography of social
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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
Media Law
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
If you are in the Milwaukee area, the Milwaukee Bar Association’s annual Law & Technology Conference is tomorrow. I will be there, presenting the keynote on the ethical duty of technology competence and also moderating a panel on legal analytics that features views from the bench and bar.
Media Law Prof Blog
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Tali Teeni-Harari and Sharon Yadin, both of the Peres Academic Center, are publishing Regulatory Literacy: Rethinking Television Rating in the New Media Age in volume 88 of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review (2019). Here is the abstract. Rating
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
Media Law Prof Blog
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
Chad G. Marzen, Florida State University, has published A Constitutional Right to Public Information. Here is the abstract. In the wake of the 2013 United States Supreme Court decision of McBurney v. Young (569 U.S. 221), this Article calls for
Media Law Prof Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
CBS is asking a federal district court to dismiss Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax's defamation suit against the network, saying that Mr. Fairfax's claim that an in-house attorney who knew both Mr. Fairfax and one of the women who accused
Music Technology Policy
NOVEMBER 2, 2019
When I started MusicTechPolicy in 2006, Jay Rosenthal was one of the first people in Washington policy circles who embraced me. This says much more about him than it does about me. He didn’t need to be particularly courteous to me or even acknowledge I existed.
Music Technology Policy
NOVEMBER 2, 2019
Diogenes searched the world for an honest man, and Cloudflare is searching the world for a decider in chief to tell them what to do.
Music Technology Policy
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Karl Herchenroeder reports in Communications Daily that Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has placed a “hold” on the CASE Act (the legislation creating a copyright small claims court), which essentially stops it from moving forward. We had heard this hold was in place long ago, and Rep.
Music Technology Policy
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
Wall Street Journal reporter Rob Copeland has unearthed another Google data scraping scandal, this time your private health information. As usual, Google doesn’t want you to focus on how they use this data in the background for data profiling in ways that you don’t know is happening and that you were never asked to consent to. The scandal isn’t that it’s illegal, the scandal is that it isn’t illegal.
Music Technology Policy
NOVEMBER 10, 2019
Alissa McCain will receive the 2019 Cindi Lazzari Artist Advocate Award from the Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Section (TESLAW) of the State Bar of Texas on November 20 at the InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Hotel. Alissa has twenty years of dedicated and groundbreaking artist advocacy work that has had a substantial impact on the lives of thousands of artists across Texas.
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
NOVEMBER 17, 2019
Music Technology Policy
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
[From 20 Questions for New Artists by Chris Castle and Amy Mitchell]. An independent artist is practically required to sign up with an aggregator in order to have your works serviced to many online outlets–some aggregators service hundreds of different retailers. (So So one example of a pre-existing contract under Question #10 may be a band member’s contract with a sound recording aggregator.).
Music Technology Policy
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
[This post first appeared in the MusicTechPolicy Monthly newsletter. Become an email follower of this blog to get your copy.]. The Music Modernization Act is a litigation magnet because of its failure to mandate a wholistic solution to the controversial black box. There are two commercially available systems that can address the problem.
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
"The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia was winding down, the draft of the United States’ supreme law almost finished, and George Mason, the author of Virginia’s Declaration of Rights, was becoming alarmed.
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
Media Law
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
If you had to guess which legal research service law students prefer, you’d probably answer Westlaw. After all, back in the early days of legal research, West pioneered the idea of giving law students free access in the hope of creating career-long customers.
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Is It a Crime to Encourage Unauthorized Immigration? The Supreme Court Will Decide by Adam Liptak , nytimes.com November 11, 2019 06:25 AM An appeals court struck down a broad 1986 law under the First Amendment, saying it covers conversations between family members and legal advice.
Media Law
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
When I give presentations on lawyers’ ethical duty to be competent in technology, audience members often come up to me afterwards and ask something to the effect of, “Ok, I get it, but how do I become competent in technology?”
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
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