Out-Law: Expert says ‘right to be forgotten’ could cause problems for publishers
Friday, 11 November 2011, 12:29
“Media law expert Kim Walker of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said that the ‘right to be forgotten’ would have a major effect in relation to news archives. He said that there would be great difficulty in determining what stories are …
James Cridland: I made the wrong choice with Facebook
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 18:49
“The fact Facebook now posts whenever I read articles by The Guardian is spooky and weird: I don’t want people knowing that stuff, that’s too personal.”
Press Gazette: Sky News Supreme Court feed ‘attracts 90,000 a day’
Monday, 5 September 2011, 15:15
"Sky News’ live video stream from the Supreme Court attracts an average 90,000 visitors a day, according to the channel’s head of news John Ryley. The figure was cited in an open letter sent by Ryley to Justice Secretary Ken Clarke in which he…
Joanna Geary: Privacy and social media investigation: how I tracked down an entire family from one tweet
Wednesday, 3 August 2011, 22:48
"It’s easy to say it’s incumbent on the individual to protect their own privacy, but it’s hard to see how we can always stop this type of jigsaw identification of people online. Sometimes people are mentioned online without them even knowing…
Guardian: Independent writer’s admission highlights news copyright issues
Wednesday, 29 June 2011, 08:12
David Banks: "[When] interviewing someone, a journalist uses skill and labour in recording quotes accurately and selecting those most appropriate for publication. So the quotes in an interview are protected by copyright. If any are to be used by a…
Cause List
Thursday, 23 June 2011, 11:54
"Track what's going on in the courts of England & Wales, right now."
Press Gazette: Tabloid editor: kiss and tells are not worth the effort
Friday, 3 June 2011, 10:19
"Press Gazette has seen unofficial industry estimates for the following NoW splash stories: "Crouch Beds £800 teen hooker" (8/8/10), "Cheating Roo beds hooker" (5/9/10), "Toon star's cocaine and sex orgy" (7/11/…
Time: The Great British Battle Between Privacy and the Press
Wednesday, 25 May 2011, 13:07
"Around the globe, the struggle to balance the right to individual privacy and the right to a free press has been complicated by the Internet's muddying of the definition of the "press". In Britain, the division between the two comp…
Meeja Law: Super injunctions
Monday, 23 May 2011, 12:36
Judith Townend clears up the increasingly confused terminology and provides some useful data on privacy injunction cases.
Malcolm Coles: The injunction DID protect the footballer Google search volumes show
Monday, 23 May 2011, 12:22
"Until the last few days, there were many more people searching for injunction than there were for his name. Each spike in searches for injunction sees a rise in searches for his name. But it’s only on this Saturday (the final day in the graph) …
Press Gazette: Facebook and Twitter gagged by new injunction
Friday, 13 May 2011, 10:59
"An ‘door-stepping order’ banning the media from contacting 65 people in a right-to-life case was lifted yesterday – but a new order was imposed banning the publication of information on Facebook and Twitter. … The order banning the publicat…
Guardian: WikiLeaks, get out of the gagging game
Friday, 13 May 2011, 09:14
James Ball on the Wikileaks NDA that he refused to sign.
Experian Hitwise: Twitter has biggest ever day of online traffic after super injunction revelations
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 23:12
"Twitter had its highest ever peak in UK Internet visits yesterday (9 May 2011) due to the extraordinary revelations of the super injunction scandal, which exposed the identities of several high profile celebrities."
MediaGuardian: US billionaire wins high court order over Wikipedia ‘defamation’
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 10:19
"Louis Bacon, the founder and chief executive officer of Moore Capital Management, was given permission on Monday to use a UK court order to obtain the information from the US publishers behind Wikipedia, the Denver Post newspaper, and the popular…
