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Getting Dirty to Protect Crowdsourced Data and Public Information

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Yesterday, the Digital Media Law Project joined an all-star cast of organizations (including the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Kentucky, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy & Technology, the Public Participat

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Vote for the Digital Media Law Project's Section 230 Panel at SXSW!

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The SXSW Panel Picker is now live, and the Digital Media Law Project is pleased to announce that we have a session proposal in the mix! 

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"Dirty" Verdict Sets Up Section 230 Appeal

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A federal jury's verdict awarding $338,000 to former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader and high school teacher Sarah Jones over postings on thedirty.com website may lead to a re-examination of the scope of the law that web site operators have widely invoked<

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DMLP UPDATE: The DMLP Asks the Sixth Circuit to Safeguard Crowdsourced Research and Data-based Journalism

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The Digital Media Law Project (formerly the Citizen Media Law Project), assisted by Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, has asked the Sixth Circuit to make clear that website operators that aggregate citizen reports and rely on that data to draw conclusions cannot be liable for defamation based on those conclusions.

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Does Washington State's SB 6251 Require Online Classified Sites to Monitor All Third-Party Content?

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The trafficking of children for sex in the United States is an appalling and very real problem, which a new Washington state law means to eliminate by targeting websites that offer classified advertising for escort services. But many fear the law poses a serious threat to free speech on the Internet by imposing upon online service providers the burdensome duty to monitor, vet, and otherwise censor third-party content.

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Sixth Circuit's 'Dirty' Decision Sends a Chill

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Let's start with the following premise: thedirty.com is a tasteless website. In addition to a bit of celebrity gossip and paparazzi-type pictures, the site also invites anyone to post pictures – often revealing, embarrassing, or insulting – of others for comment by users and, sometimes, the site's proprietor.

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The IRS and User-Generated Content

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As we have reported previously, the Digital (nee Citizen) Media Law Project has been following a trend in delays at the Internal Revenue Service relating to Section 501(c)(3) tax exemptions for nonprofit journalism organizations.

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Citizen Counter-Surveillance of the Police? There's an App For That.

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Herbert George Ponting and telephoto apparatus, Antarctica, January 1912 Despite the welcome 7th Circuit decision in ACLU v.

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