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The Need for H.R. 4364
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| Yesterday, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN),
| introduced H.R. 4364, the Citizen
| Participation Act of 2009. The Citizen
| Participation Act encourages civic engagement
| and protects against meritless lawsuits
| brought against those who petition the
| government or speak out on a public issue.
| The bill allows someone who is brought to
| court on a meritless lawsuit arising from his
| exercise of First Amendment rights to have
| the lawsuit dismissed, and to recover
| attorney's fees.
|
| With so much happening these days:
| Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Health Care, Jobs,
| the Climate, and other big happenings in the
| First Amendment world, including libel
| tourism and reporter's shield legislation,
| you might wonder why so much ado about some
| meritless lawsuits.
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http://www.anti-slapp.org/?q=node/71
Italian Courts, latest score: Berlusconi 1; YouTube 0
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| The Italian court today struck a significant
| blow in favour of Mediaset, the broadcaster
| controlled by Silvio Berlusconi, and against
| YouTube.
|
| [...]
|
| No doubt lawyers in other jurisdictions are
| already sharpening their writs in pursuit of
| YouTube - in the meantime, the Viacom v
| YouTube litigation continues to wend its way
| through the New York courts, with no sign of
| an imminent conclusion.
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http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2009/12/italian-courts-latest-score-berlusconi.html
Why you will regret using Vimeo.
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| The email read as follows:
|
| We see that you are using Vimeo for
| uploading commercial content.
|
| Weâre sorry, but as stated in our Terms
| and Conditions of Use, on
| our Community Guidelines page, and on the
| upload page itself, Vimeo is for
| noncommercial use only, and we cannot
| host this content for you. Please take 24
| hours to move your videos to another
| hosting service.
|
| My immediate reaction was disbelief. After
| all I had read their guidelines which state:
|
| You may not upload commercials,
| infomercials, or demos that actively sell
| or promote a product or service.
|
| I didnât believe any of my videos fell into
| this category.
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http://boagworld.com/reviews/vimeo
Recent:
China Imposes New Internet Controls
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| Chinaâs government censors have taken fresh
| aim at the Internet, rolling out new
| measures that limit its citizensâ ability
| to set up personal Web sites and to view
| hundreds of Web sites offering films, video
| games and other forms of entertainment.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/world/asia/18china.html?_r=3&ref=world
Point Out A Potential Photoshopping Of A Demi Moore Picture,
And She Has Her Lawyers Send Out The Nastygrams
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| Apparently Demi Moore and her lawyers
| missed that whole story. Back in November
| some folks noticed what appeared to be a
| photoshopping of Demi Moore's left hip on
| the cover of W magazine. There was some
| debate over it, but either way, people
| moved on and it was forgotten. Not so fast!
| While there was some discussion about it --
| and Moore herself chimed in on Twitter to
| claim that the photo was not altered --
| she's now had her lawyers threaten at least
| two publications over the original story.
| Their claim is that the posts are
| defamatory. Even if there was no retouching
| of the photo, it's hard to see what is
| possibly "defamatory" in the story. Digital
| retouching happens all the time, and
| claiming that a photo was retouched, if
| anything, would implicate the photographers
| or graphic artists at W, not Moore. There's
| simply nothing even close to defamatory in
| regards to Moore herself.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091221/1701497452.shtml
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