Lex Ferenda

daithí mac sithigh’s blog on cyberlaw & media law

Suing Gootube

There are three sides to YouTube, really.
There’s the uploading of ‘user-generated content’ with little in the way of legal consequences. Films of cats falling asleep, self-composed piano pieces, recordings of the end-of-year speech at school, even ‘happy slapping’ etc. Setting aside incidental use of copyrighted materials (just for the current discussion), these aren’t [...]

Blog Hints For Bong Hits

Finally, the “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” (Morse v Frederick) case has its ultimate day in court - oral argument at the US Supreme Court. This was one of my favourite free speech cases of 2006 (at the level of the Court of Appeal: opinion here), and the questions presented to the Supreme Court are [...]

 
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