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European Parliament Votes Today on Gallo Report
TweetToday the European Parliament will vote on the Gallo Report [scribd], which recommends strengthening intellectual-property enforcement, including through “non-legislative” measures. Prepared by...
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European Parliament Approves Get-Tough Gallo Report
TweetThe European Parliament voted to approve the Gallo Report calling for tough intellectual-property enforcement measures. (Photo: European Parliament. Used without permission.) Following up on...
View ArticleMike Masnick on Outsourced IP Policing
TweetFrom Mike Masnick in TechDirt: [W]ith our [U.S.] government often believing just about anything Hollywood tells them, and with a long term effort by the industry to have the government act as its...
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Internet Speech Freedom on the Line in Paris
TweetProfessor Joseph H.H. Weiler Joseph H.H. Weiler, an extremely well-regarded scholar of international law (and my teacher back in law school) has completed his criminal trial for libel in France....
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Prince Albert Takes Defamation Claim to Paris
TweetMonaco. That's the prince's boat on the right. The big one. (Photo: CIA) Libel tourism alert: The best place to vacay with your tarnished reputation continues to be Paris, France. Prince Albert of...
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Irish Defamation Law Compared with the UK’s New Reform Effort
TweetThe Irish countryside (Photo: CIA) Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In a nod to Éire, let me point you to a blog post by Trinity College law faculty member Dr. Eoin O’Dell (@cearta). He’s done a post at...
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UK Soccer Star Ryan Giggs Sues Twitter and Tweeters Over Super-Injunction
TweetUK soccer star and super-injunction taker-outer, Ryan Griggs (Photo: Allison Pasciuto, CC-BY 2.0) A soccer player who is famous in the United Kingdom, Ryan Giggs, apparently obtained a...
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UK Anti-Terrorism Law Invoked Against Dad Who FB’d Photo of Daughter Eating...
TweetThe face of terrorism? (Photo: Chris White)Chris White used his cell phone to take the adorable photo at right of his 4-year-old daughter eating ice cream in the Braehead Shopping Centre in...
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Dutch Conference on Internet Freedom Highlights Plight of Bloggers Under...
TweetEarlier this month the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a conference called Freedom Online: Joint Action for Free Expression on the Internet. The conference was attended by more...
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Conviction for Insulting Islam in Austria
TweetPallas Athena fountain in front of the Parliament Building in Vienna, Austria (Photo: CIA)An Austrian appeals court has upheld the conviction of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff for insulting Islam....
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London Tweeting: The Crown Prosecution Service Talks Twitter
TweetA worthwhile article from the U.K.: Social media and the law – How to stay out of trouble when using Twitter and Facebook The story points up the many differences between the U.S. and U.K. when it...
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City of London Police Hijacking Websites Without Court Orders
TweetSome scary news out of London. The City of London Police has a new Intellectual Property Crimes Unit, and they are demanding – without a court order – that domain registrars shut down websites and...
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UK Bans Warns of Criminal Charges for Using Social Media to Discuss...
TweetFrom television coverage of the game in 1989. In the United Kingdom, there is a new example of that country’s sometimes surprising limitations on free speech. The UK Attorney General is warning...
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