Showing posts with label libel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label libel. Show all posts
15 July 2012

UK Pensioner Could Face Arrest For Atheist Poster

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Along with ridiculous libel cases, the UK is also infamous for laws that are designed to stop people hurting the feelings of others. Mayb...
27 April 2012

Italian 'Blog Killer' Law Rises From the Grave

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As if Italians didn't have enough problems, it seems that their government is trying to sneak through a proposal supposedly designed to...
05 July 2010

Welcome to Open Source Law

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Since, as Larry Lessig famously pointed out, " code is law " (and vice versa), it's natural to try to apply open source method...
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25 October 2008

Libelling Larry Lessig

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Wow, outrageous : Although it is unclear at this point who Senators Obama and McCain might choose, AAP believes it essential that key offici...
14 August 2008

British Libel Laws Violate Human Rights - UN

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Ha ! The British libel laws have come under attack from the United Nations committee on human rights for discouraging coverage of matters of...
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08 August 2008

Online: Slander or Libel?

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A nice outbreak of sanity, here : A High Court judge ruled this week that defamatory comments on internet forums are more like slander than ...
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04 October 2006

The Iceman Cometh

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USA Today has a chilling piece about the increasing number of libel cases being brought against bloggers: Robert Cox, founder and presiden...