Corporate-Created Legal Regimes

UncategorizedPublished August 24, 2009 at 10:59 pm No Comments

The law regarding all things online, whether it be intellectual property, privacy, or First Amendment rights, is nascent, and in some instances, non-existent. In the absence of the judicial system creating the parameters for individuals and organizations to navigate this space, corporations have substituted their discretion, terms of use, and privacy policies as the rules
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Keeping it Illegit

UncategorizedPublished August 6, 2009 at 11:59 am 1 Comment

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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