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Internet link case to go before Supreme Court
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| Can posting a link to someone else's
| website constitute defamation?
|
| The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to
| hear the case of a former Green Party
| campaign manager who says it does.
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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/02/supreme-libel-links.html
Censored in Singapore
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| The rulers had sued for defamation 16 years
| ago, saying a Herald Tribune Op-Ed column
| had implied that they got their jobs
| through nepotism. The paper wound up paying
| $678,000 and promising not to do it again.
| But in February, it named Lee Kuan Yew, the
| founding prime minister, and his son, Lee
| Hsien Loong, the prime minister now, in an
| Op-Ed article about Asian political
| dynasties.
|
| After the Lees objected, the paper said its
| language âmay have been understood by
| readers to infer that the younger Mr. Lee
| did not achieve his position through merit.
| We wish to state clearly that this
| inference was not intended.â The Herald
| Tribune, wholly owned by The New York Times
| Company, apologized for âany distress or
| embarrassmentâ suffered by the Lees. The
| statement was published in the paper and on
| the Web site it shares with The Times.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/opinion/04pubed.html
Free Speech Unmoored in Copyrightâs Safe Harbor: Chilling Effects of the DMCA on the First Amendment
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| Each week, more blog posts are redacted,
| more videos deleted, and more web pages
| removed from Internet search results based
| on private claims of copyright
| infringement. Under the safe harbors of the
| Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA),
| Internet service providers are encouraged
| to respond to copyright complaints with
| content takedowns, assuring their immunity
| from liability while diminishing the rights
| of their subscribers and users.
| Paradoxically, the law's shield for service
| providers becomes a sword against the
| public who depend upon these providers as
| platforms for speech.
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1577785
Online readers need a chance to comment, but not to abuse
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| Anonymous online commenting has always been
| rowdy and raucous, especially when public
| figures are the targets.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040202324_pf.html
MPs call for more support for local news media
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| John Whittingdale, the committeeâs
| chairman, said that local media was facing
| âunprecedented challengesâ from the
| recession and the internet. âThis has led
| to the closure of a large number of
| newspapers, many commercial radio stations
| becoming loss-making and the possible end
| of regional news on commercial television,â
| Mr Whittingdale said. âThis has serious
| implications for local democracy.â
|
| The committee wants the Government to press
| ahead with changes to cross-media ownership
| recommended by Ofcom, the media regulator.
| These include relaxing the rule that no
| local newspaper publisher with more than 20
| per cent of a market may also own a Channel
| 3 regional television licence.
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article7088350.ece
Wikileaks and the dream of the open web
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| In case you have not seen it yet, Wikileaks
| has released a video of an American
| helicopter crew opening fire on a group of
| men in Iraq, and later firing on a van that
| was trying to retrieve the wounded. I have
| been debating with myself whether to embed
| the video here. It is seriously disturbing,
| and I am concerned about potentially
| tasteless juxtaposition between the
| seriousness of the subject matter and the
| light-hearted nature of this blog, but I
| have decided that this is important enough
| that it requires all of the promotion it
| can get.
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http://www.technollama.co.uk/wikileaks-and-the-dream-of-the-open-web
Mainstream media ignores Wikileaks video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ2J8PX3Sdg
Military can't find its copy of Iraq killing video
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| After being pressed to release its version
| of the WikiLeaks clip, U.S. CENTCOM says it
| can't locate the footage
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http://www.salon.com/news/us_military/index.html?story=/news/2010/04/06/us_us_iraq_video
(en) Venezuela: all detainees released and charges dropped following union march in Maracay
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| Having recovered from inhaling an amount of
| tear gas, I accompanied Robert GonzÃlez -
| the executive secretary of the Oil Workers'
| Federation (FederaciÃn Petrolera) - as he
| was being interviewed by TVS Maracay (a
| regional TV channel). While he spoke to the
| journalist, a group of more than 30 police
| surrounded us. As soon as the TV cameras
| switched off, they pounced on us and,
| pushing against us, bundled us into the
| van. Amidst the tussle, they seized and
| broke my anarchist banner, which read, "FOR
| LIBERTARIAN AUTONOMY AND AGAINST THE
| REPRESSION OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS". Twelve
| people in total were packed into the police
| van, including two members of the Workers'
| League for Socialism (LTS). They didn't
| tell us what our charges were, or where we
| were headed.
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http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos17814.html
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