FT.com: Bloggers take German national library to task
Tuesday, 25 November 2008, 09:51
"With the internet already in its second decade and host to reams of material for which paper was too expensive or too cumbersome, it is startling to realise that the German national library and its worldwide peers are only just beginning to grapple with the problems of systematically archiving the web."
Currybetdotnet: Protecting the identity of Baby P’s killers: The courts vs the people vs the Internet
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 12:35
Martin Belam: "Trying to stick to the terms of the court order preserving the anonymity of 'Baby P''s killers has been very testing for a lot of sites online. … cache on Monday afternoon still contained a BBC News report from late last year that not only named those charged with the death of 'Baby P', but also the toddlers proper name, and, incredibly, their street addresses. … A Telegraph report initially from around the same time could also be located in Google…"
Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog: Naming Baby P is not about giving in to a Facebook campaign
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 12:33
"Naming Baby P and his mother is not about giving in to a hysterical Facebook campaign group; this is about confronting the reality of the online age."
Independent: Facebook vigilantes identify mother of Baby P
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 12:31
"The identity of the 27-year-old mother of Baby P was last night being circulated on the internet with the names of her boyfriend and the third man convicted of causing the child's death, after online vigilantes began a campaign calling for violent retribution against them. An order issued by the judge who oversaw the trial of the woman and her boyfriend forbids details about them…"
Sarah Hartley: Four legal dangers of links in articles and blogs
Sunday, 12 October 2008, 08:49
Sarah Hartley lists some potential legal risks for UK newspapers that include links to external sites - or even their own archive - in their copy…
Folio: Publishers Reach Quiet Settlement with Mygazines
Sunday, 5 October 2008, 16:03
"Lawyers representing a large swath of consumer and b-to-b publishers—including Time Inc., Hearst, Hachette, McGraw-Hill, American Media Inc., Reed Business Information, Bonnier, Ziff Davis and Forbes, among others—settled their case against the proprietors of Mygazines.com on September 8, according to court documents obtained by FOLIO:."
medienlese.com: Neininger von news1.ch: “Was Google macht, ist illegal”
Sunday, 5 October 2008, 15:31
A Swiss regional newspapers publisher is still arguing that Google News is illegal because it requires you to opt out if you don't want your archive to be "plundered". But their solution makes sense: News1.ch hopes to compete with Google News by pooling regional newspapers' content at the national level.
TorrentFreak: News Site Criticized for Linking to Pirate Bay Torrents
Sunday, 5 October 2008, 15:24
"The Swedish news site Nyheter24 has been criticized for including a list of most downloaded TV-shows on their site, and linking directly to the torrent detail pages on The Pirate Bay." (The direct links seem to have been removed since this was published)
Guido Fawkes: Thieving Parasitical Journalists
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 23:44
"Guido always tries to credit the source of a story with a link. It is not just honest and good manners, it pays dividends in traffic terms. Here is the difference in understanding between online writers and dead tree writers. Bloggers understand that if you increase the usefulness of your site with useful links, you get more traffic. Something that the dead tree press has only just realised…"
BBC: Radio 4: iPM: Online court records and prejudice.
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 23:34
"one of the prejudicial things one might read in such online archives would be details of the accused previous convictions. Which brings us back to Jack Straw's proposal to reveal online, 'what happened when someone appears in the dock'. Would these records similarly present a risk of prejudice?"
CNET News.com: The Iconoclast: New magazine-sharing site escapes copyright laws abroad
Monday, 18 August 2008, 10:02
"Mygazines is registered in the Caribbean island of Anguilla and hosted in Sweden, by the notorious PRQ. The Stockholm-based PRQ is owned by the founders of BitTorrent tracker site Pirate Bay and is known for hosting other dubious sites."
Editor & Publisher: Bill Proposed to Extend N.Y. Shield Law to Bloggers
Sunday, 17 August 2008, 08:12
New York state Sen. Thomas Duane has "proposed legislation that would protect bloggers from contempt-of-court charges for refusing to disclose confidential information or sources."
Saturday, 5 July 2008, 09:29
Comments
"Former Peterborough MP Helen Clark has threatened to take legal action after a film of her involved in an altercation in a Peterborough hotel was posted on [YouTube]."
Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 13:41
Comments
"If The Atlantic, with its top shelf editorial standards, can [quote from a blogger's site without permission], then why can’t a blogger quote AP — almost as if the AP were a person?"
