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We have some important news to share from the Digital Media Law Project. After seven years of providing legal assistance to independent journalism through various methods, the DMLP will soon spin off its most effective initiatives and cease operation as a stand-alone project within the Berkman Center.DMLP Announcement: A New Report on Media Credentialing in the United States
Will E.U. Court's Privacy Ruling Break the Internet?
In 2012, a bevy of internet companies and web sites waged a successful Baidu's Political Censorship is Protected by First Amendment, but Raises Broader Issues
Baidu, the operator of China’s most popular search engine, has won the dismissal of a United States lawsuit brought by pro-democracy activists who claimed that the company violated their civil rights by preventing their writings from appearing in search results. In the most thorough and persuasive opinion on the issue of search engine bias to date, a federal court ruled that the First Amendment protects the editorial judgments of search engines, even when they censor political speech.Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Some Federal Courts Post Audio Recordings Online
While the propriety of video and photography equipment in federal courts is subject of Service and Research at the Frontier of Media Law
DMLP Announcement: Live Chat Session on Tax-Exempt Journalism (UPDATED)
A New Approach to Helping Journalism Non-Profits at the IRS
With Cameras Banned in the Supreme Court, Undercover Video Emerges
People are discovering a Revised DOJ Regs Protect "Members of the News Media," But What Does That Mean?
On February 21, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice released its Lawyers in the Vortex: When Attorneys Become Public Figures
There was substantial media coverage of the Montesquieu, Come Back! (The French Police Already Know Where You Are)
On December 19, 2013, the French A Quick Thought on Bloggers, Opinion, and Today's Ruling from the Ninth Circuit
Earlier today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit released its decision in California Judicial Council Recommends Repeal of Law Criminalizing Juror Internet Use
In August 2011, Wrapping 2013 at the Digital Media Law Project
Here we are again, at the end of another year with snow on the ground and Harvard University's winter shutdown rapidly approaching. Tomorrow, the staff of the Digital Media Law Project will be off to spend time with friends and family until Harvard's doors reopen in 2014; but before we go, I wanted to take a quick look back at this year's highlights at the DMLP.
A Lesson in Metadata: Harvard Bomb Hoax
[We are delighted to run this piece by our friend and Berkman Center colleague Ryan Budish - eds.]
Ninth Circuit Starts Live Streaming, As Federal Camera Test Continues
In early December, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals French Court: Claim of First Amendment Rights in Search Results Inconsistent with "Neutral and Passive Role" as Host
On November 6, the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance (TGI) ordered Google and Google France to withdraw and stop displaying in their search engine results, for a period of five years, nine pictures of British citizen Max Mosley. By doing so, the TGI refused to consider Google as a mere Internet intermediary that provides hosting and/or caching functions.Getting Dirty to Protect Crowdsourced Data and Public Information
Yesterday, the Digital Media Law Project joined an all-star cast of organizations (including the Cyborg Journalists: How Google Glass Can Change Journalism
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