Professor Lakier lauds NRA v. Vullo's embrace of a categorical First Amendment rule against informal censorship, exploring the muddled landscape from which the decision emerged, the significance of its intervention, and its profound implications.
I have been commissioned by the government to do an independent review of section 1 Terrorism Act 2006 (encouraging terrorism). In the following tweets I set out (a) an explanation of section 1 (tldr: encouraging members of the public to carry out specific or general acts of terrorism); (b) my terms of reference and (c) topics on which I would particularly welcome thoughts/ feedback/ insights.
European trademark law increasingly regulates expression. This paper argues Article 10 ECHR should shape trademark doctrine internally from use and dilution to morality exclusions to protect parody, critique, and artistic expression. https://t.co/NS0aU4O27I #IPLaw#FreeSpeech
This paper compares joint-authorship rules across four countries & argues that #copyright doctrine mishandles collaboration by treating joint #authorship as a contest between a “real” author & an “Other.”
Read: https://t.co/NzNwfq9NzI
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Greenpeace v Energy Transfer
📣 anti-SLAPP action by Greenpeace in The Netherlands, against US energy company's injunctions and subsequent successful damages claims in the US Dutch courts hold they have jurisdiction
More here
https://t.co/1BpH4oWOCw
I’m delighted to have received copies of this volume. It has had a long gestation, but I think it’s an important collection, and it appears at an opportune time given the troubled state of the world and current challenges to freedom of the press in the US and elsewhere.
Canada's AI strategy is coming and I argue it's set to fail, given the government’s digital self-sabotage. Bill C-22 has tech firms threatening to leave, the CRTC's streaming ruling will lead to trade retaliation, and age verification adds new AI barriers.
https://t.co/LENknFmIBt
The Elgar Companion to Freedom of Speech and Expression
Edited by Ashutosh Bhagwat, University of California, Davis School of Law and Alan K. Chen, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Free, read the Introduction https://t.co/F32wUr09iQ
More info https://t.co/VlTl7RDVn9
So delighted with the cover illustration for our book, designed by Caoimhe O'Hare who is studying illustration @BelfastSchArt. "Effective Participation for Litigants in Person" examines how those who go to court w/out a lawyer can receive a fair trial: https://t.co/gcpyrwwps3
#SLAPPs: An online workshop on addressing SLAPPs was organised by @EUI_EU on 1 June as part of the M4CD project led by the IFJ.
🎙️ @abellanger49: “We need dissuasive sanctions against those who use the courts as a weapon of censorship.” ⤵️
https://t.co/Clpw2C7w6r
Google will now also have to allow publishers to opt-out of allowing their content to be used for the ‘fine-tuning’ of AI models. This provides publishers with confidence that they will have control over the full range of AI use-cases of their content. See https://t.co/6z1UGGOjKP
Out now & free to download by chapters or whole text, my @LSEPress book with Tim Monteath, Denisa Kostovicova and Hannah Boroudjou
*Doing Open Social Science*
https://t.co/qHq5wUM9SA
helps qualitative & quantitative researchers make their work more reproducible & robust