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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.Service and Research at the Frontier of Media Law
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 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 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.
Getting Dirty to Protect Crowdsourced Data and Public Information
Yesterday, the Digital Media Law Project joined an all-star cast of organizations (including the A Click is Worth a Thousand Words: Fourth Circuit Sees the Value of a "Like"
On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued its A Win for Opinion: Sixth Circuit Tackles Website Top-Ten Lists
Congratulations to Nevada on its New and Improved Anti-SLAPP Law!
As of October 1, 2013, those targeted with frivolous lawsuits in Nevada designed to chill speech will enjoy substantially stronger protection, thanks to Nevada's new and improved anti-SLAPP statute.
Who is a Journalist? Here We Go Again…
In the wake of the Justice Dept.'s Media Investigation Policy Falls Flat Compared to Other Protections Against Press Intrusion
As has been When Comments Turn Ugly: Newspaper Websites and Anonymous Speech
Dan Kennedy has Misidentifications Past and Present: Terror, Suspicion & the Media
Judge: Blogging from the Courtroom OK, Twitter Not So Much
As FTC Clarifies Obligations of Product Reviewers, But Does Not Ease Concerns
On March 12, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission released a new guidance paper entitled "On a Very Long Walk, Paul Salopek Sees a Ray of Light from the IRS
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist We are the Digital Media Law Project
Many of you who have followed the adventures of the Citizen Media Law Project know that we have been contemplating a change of our project's name for quite some time (the eagle-eyed will have seen our new name and logo appearing in stealth fashion here and there on our site and elsewhere).Introducing Jillian Stonecipher!
It gives me great pleasure to welcome our newest blogger, Jillian Stonecipher! Jillian, a 2L at Harvard Law School, is no stranger to our project, having worked with us as an intern throughout the 2012-13 academic year. When not hanging around the Berkman Center, Jillian works on both the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender and the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology.Heads Up, Online Radicals -- You're Next
For me, thinking about one of the Obama administration's latest initiatives to keep us all safe online is like one of those pattern recognition puzzles (you know, like "What is the next term in this sequence: O, T, T, F, F, S, S, E, N, __?"). Here, the sequence is:
Filing Lawsuits in the United States over Google Autocomplete is...
On December 21, 2012, Dr. Guy Hingston, a cancer surgeon from Port Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, filed suit against Google in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Dr.Pages
