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Citing Anti-SLAPP Law, New York Court Dismisses Libel Case Against Unmasked...
Long before Liskula Cohen's case brought online anonymity intothemainstreampress, New York courts were already struggling with the law surrounding the outing of anonymous Internet speakers. For...
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Splitting the Digital Baby: California Court Creates New Procedure for...
It's amazing how many times you can hear a phrase without really understanding it. Take "splitting the baby" for instance. Excuse my ignorance, but I'd always thought it had a more-or-less neutral...
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Hipcheck16 Is No Turk 182 - But Anonymous Political Speech Is Sacred
This one is a little disturbing. Political Race Gets Nasty During an election in Buffalo Grove, Ill., an online debate started about a candidate for Village Trustee, Lisa Stone. During that debate,...
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Office Space Star Ron Livingston Sues Wikipedia Prankster, Community Norms At...
Maybe I'm a big dork, but I think Office Space is a totally hilarious movie. And based on his starring role in the film, I would assume that actor Ron Livingston has a pretty good sense of humor. But...
View ArticleThe Double-Edged Sword of Online Free Speech
From a functional perspective, I think that the First Amendment is the most important amendment in the bunch, because it ensures that the people can denounce any injustices the government perpetrates....
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Will Italy's Conviction of Google Execs Stick?
I've no doubt that CMLP blog readers, fellow netizens that you are, are well aware of an Italian court's conviction last week of three Google executives for invasion of privacy of an Italian teenager....
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Pennsylvania Court Refuses to Unmask News Website Commenters
Thomas O'Toole at TechLaw points us to an anonymous speech decision issued last week by a federal court in Pennsylvania. In McVicker v. King, William McVicker subpoenaed Trib Total Media, publisher...
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"Fred Ross" Files Anti-SLAPP Motion Against Patterson City Attorney
A couple of weeks ago, my good friend and all-around First Amendment bad ass Marc Randazza called on a bunch of law bloggers to make March "Anti-SLAPP Month" in honor of Congressman Steve Cohen...
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Ninth Circuit Weighs In On Internet Anonymity, Consumer Griping At Risk
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision last Monday in In re: Anonymous Online Speakers, No. 09-71265 (9th Cir. July 12, 2010), a case that could be influential for future courts deciding...
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The IRS and User-Generated Content
As we have reported previously, the Digital (nee Citizen) Media Law Project has been following a trend in delays at the Internal Revenue Service relating to Section 501(c)(3) tax exemptions for...
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How Do You Say 'Public Forum Doctrine' in Hawaiian?
It is ridiculously easy to create an online forum. Even just a few years ago, you had to have a fairly high level of technical savvy to put together such a thing - maybe some php or other coding...
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Copyright of “Public Facts”: Craigslist v. PadMapper
Craigslist was meant for the common good, or as founder Craig Newmark puts it, “doing well by doing good.” At least, that has been its announced mission since it began as an email distribution among...
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When Comments Turn Ugly: Newspaper Websites and Anonymous Speech
Dan Kennedy has reported on an interesting anonymous speech issue brewing (or perhaps already boiled over) in the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts. It seems that the board of selectpeople of Cohasset...
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Ice Roads and Chilled Speech: ECHR Tags News Portal for Reader Comments
The Chamber of the First Section of the European Court of Human Rights held unanimously on October 10 that making a news portal liable for defamatory comments posted by its readers does not violate...
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Getting Dirty to Protect Crowdsourced Data and Public Information
Yesterday, the Digital Media Law Project joined an all-star cast of organizations (including the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Kentucky, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for...
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