Suing Gootube
Posted by Daithí on March 13, 2007 , 4 Comments
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 [...]
Filed under : Cyberlaw, Media and Society
Blog Hints For Bong Hits
Posted by Daithí on , 10 Comments
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 [...]
Filed under : Law