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New Hampshire Supreme Court Upholds Free Speech Rights for Online News Sites
The New Hampshire Supreme Court today issued an important decision upholding the First Amendment rights of online publishers. Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic submitted an amicus curiae brief last...
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Sam Bayard and Eric Goldman Discuss Gizmodo iPhone Flap on Lawyer2Lawyer
Title: The Mystery of the Missing iPhoneDescription: The technology and legal world was abuzz over an incident involving a prototype of the iPhone 4G. An Apple engineer allegedly left behind...
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Court Battle for Filmmaker's Footage Spurs National Debate on Reporter's...
A filmmaker's fight against an oil company seeking his raw documentary footage has spurred a national debate on the reporter's privilege, pitting media organizations and filmmakers against powerful...
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N.C. Judge Unmasks Pseudonymous Blog Commenters
A North Carolina trial court recently ordered the editor of the local community blog Home in Henderson to turn over the names and addresses of six pseudonymous commenters who allegedly defamed former...
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A federal appellate court has issued a swift ruling, in a high profile reporter's privilege case, that requires a filmmaker to surrender some of his unpublished footage to a powerful oil company. Last...
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No, the Sky is Not Falling: Explaining that Decision in Oregon
There's been a lot of buzz online (and now in the New York Times) about a decision by a federal judge in Oregon last week that held that blogger Crystal Cox is not protected by Oregon's reporters...
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Bloggers and Shield Laws II: Now, You Can Worry
A few weeks ago, I wrote that bloggers should not be too concerned about a decision by a federal judge in Oregon that blogger Crystal Cox is not protected by Oregon's reporters' shield law in a...
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Judge Explains His Decision on Blogger to the Chicken Littles
Federal Judge Marco A. Hernandez got a lot of attention and cyberchatter late last year when he held that blogger Crystal Cox was not protected by Oregon's reporters' shield law, leading to a $2.5...
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On Reconsideration, Illinois Judge Holds Blog Is Protected By Shield Law
On a motion for reconsideration, an Illinois trial judge who held in January that the technology news blog TechnoBuffalo.com was not protected by Illinois' reporter's shield law (75 Ill. Comp. Stat. §§...
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Amici Line Up In Appeal of "Blogger Not a Journalist" Ruling
A federal judge's ruling that a blogger was not covered by Oregon's reporters' shield law is being appealed to the Ninth Circuit, and is getting some amicus support from media organizations. But the...
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"Newsgathering in Massachusetts" Guide Now Available Online!
The Digital Media Law Project is pleased to announce the online release of its new legal resource, Newsgathering in Massachusetts, co-produced with the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic. Our new...
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Who is a Journalist? Here We Go Again…
In the wake of the Associated Press and James Rosen incidents, the call for statutory protection for journalists and their sources has started anew. The Obama administration has called on Sen. Chuck...
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As State Shield Laws Play Tug-of-War, the Dream of a Federal Shield Law...
A recent challenge to a subpoena for a New York reporter's confidential source highlights the risks journalists face when different state shield laws clash. Although uniform state shield laws would...
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Senate Shield Bill Is Actually Pretty Broad
An amended billpassed Sept. 12 by the Senate Judiciary Committee to protect journalists from being forced to reveal confidential sources in federal court includes a relatively broad definition of who...
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Massachusetts Considers a New, Robust Shield Law
The DMLP would like to highlight a recent post by our friend and colleague Rob Bertsche, a parter at Boston law firm Prince Lobel Tye LLP. Rob reported from the Massachusetts State House, where...
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