2010 is two days away, and amongst of flurry of blog posts and tweets about the “best of” for the first decade of this century, are predictions about how 2010 will shape up.
My prediction for the political space? We will see the emergence of politics, both at the campaign level and in media coverage, transition
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The ultimate destination vacation? Forum shopping your libel suit.
Years after an article is written and the first round of defamation suits result from a publication, the current legal framework in the UK allows people to download articles years later and bring libel suits per download, i.e. per instance of publication. Under defamation law in
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The illegitimate view of citizen journalism (still pondering a more appropriate term) that both traditional media and others have taken extends today into the courtroom.
In Tennessee, a judge found that the independent video producer of the website piratenews.org would not be allowed to film two trials to which he sought to shoot. The judge found
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