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Project is extraordinarily pleased to announce that Andy Sellars, our Staff Attorney, was announced this past weekend to be the 2011 winner of the time-honored and prestigious Can AP Apply a 99-Cent-Song Business Model to the News?
Is it possible to create a culture for licensing news?
Introducing Guest Blogger Victoria Smith Ekstrand
Health Reporters Unite! How One Doctor's Complaint Turned a Public Database Private
Kansas City Star reporter Alan Bavley had a hunch. After years of investigating the health care industry, Bavley began to suspect that state medical boards did not adequately discipline doctors who committed malpractice. Physicians battling substance abuse, for example, were punished far more harshly.
CMLP ANNOUNCEMENT: Media Law in the Digital Age -- This Saturday, October 22!
Federal Courts' Camera Experiment Rolls On
After a slow start, the latest experiment of video cameras in federal courtrooms, Hate Speech v. Freedom of Expression in a 'Pleasantly Authoritarian Country' (aka Canada)
The United States is something of an outlier in the world when it comes to hate speech. Whereas laws prohibiting hate speech in the U.S.The 'Mugshot Racket': Paying to Keep Public Records Less Public
It used to be that mugshots were kept well out of the view. Despite being public records in many states, walls of bureaucracy and simple physical inaccessibility (due to the photos being locked in a police station somewhere) kept them largely out of the public eye.
A Citizen's Guide to Reporting on #OccupyWallStreet
'Act' of Valor: Ninth Circuit Decides First Amendment Does Not Protect People Who Sport Phony Medals
David Perelman served in Vietnam for all of three months back in 1971, and returned to the U.S. without a scratch.
Al Jazeera's Laudable Embrace of Creative Commons
Last week the Tell Us, Judge Posner, Who Watches the Watchmen?
In what is now their Oh Tenenbaum - First Circuit Rules That Consumers and Pirates Subject to High Sanctions Under Copyright Act
The draconian penalties for illegal downloaders under the U.S. Copyright Act were intended not just for commercial pirates, but for consumer-level infringers, the First Circuit ruled last week.
Introducing Guest Blogger Timothy Cornell
Righthaven's Copyright Trolling is a Bankrupt Idea
It’s been The War on Terror, 'Material Support,' and the First Amendment
The U.S. Department of State maintains a He Tweets, He Misses! Court Blocks Gilbert Arenas's Preliminary Injunction
Basketball Wives: Los AngelesLaw School for Digital Journalists – Online Registration Closes September 16!
Next Thursday, September 22, 2011, the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard’s 
One of the first things I learned as a journalist, and later again as a media lawyer, was that under the First Amendment the "truth" could not be subject to a viable defamation claim. True statements are simply constitutionally immune and plaintiffs cannot sidestep all of the common law and constitutional protections for true speech through creative pleadings that would merely re-label defamation as another cause of action.
