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US government loses crypto ruling
News Thus, the court agreed with Bernstein in ruling the Administration violated the First Amendment by asking him to get an export license before posting that code to the Internet. Fletcher said: "The First Amendment is concerned with expression, and...
[May 7, 1999, 14:34]
Council of Europe presses for 'hate speech' Internet ban
News There are no consistent laws around the world for overseas content -- the US in particular is safeguarded by the First Amendment. Tallo is keen for the hate speech protocol to bypass jurisdiction laws, so that racist organisations are unable to...
[November 12, 2001, 13:09]
Google ranking suit may continue
News What KinderStart is saying is that Google violated its First Amendment rights. That's in part because search engines can claim to have a First Amendment right to rank Web sites as they see fit — much like a restaurant reviewer or book reviewer has...
[July 3, 2006, 11:10]
ThinkSecret.com editor secures legal help for Apple battle
News Apple's attempt to silence a small publication's news reporting presents a troubling affront to the protections of the First Amendment," dePlume said in a posting on Think Secret. In a statement, Gross said Think Secret's articles should be...
[January 20, 2005, 8:10]
Man arrested for porn domain deceit
News I could see some First Amendment problems with this prosecution, because fundamentally it criminalises Internet speech, and the courts have not been kind to Congress' attempts to do that in the past. While Zuccarini allegedly engaged in misleading...
[September 4, 2003, 17:00]
EU lawmakers vote to introduce net neutrality
News The European Parliament has voted through a massive tranche of reforms for the European telecommunications sector, including a significant net-neutrality amendment. The net-neutrality aspects of the Telecoms Package were included in the heavily...
[May 6, 2009, 17:10]
Civil liberties group takes on DMCA
News I would be very surprised if the court agreed that the First Amendment overrides Congress' ability to create this sort of act. I don't think courts are very amenable to First Amendment arguments right now.
[July 25, 2002, 14:58]
US Report: Judge denies Microsoft request for private depositions
News I don't think this is a First Amendment case," he added. I don't think there's ever been a First Amendment right to attend pretrial proceedings. The judge overseeing the antitrust suit between government antitrust officials and Microsoft on...
[August 13, 1998, 10:03]
Supreme Court backs off DVD case
News The DVDCCA's case bifurcated after a second defendant, California resident Andrew Bunner, did not fight the court's jurisdiction but argued he had a First Amendment right to distribute DeCSS. In November 2001, a California state appeals court sided...
[January 6, 2003, 8:06]
Amazon book ban backfires
News The rules are emerging," said Michael Traynor, a specialist in First Amendment law at the San Francisco firm of Cooley Godward LLP. Indeed, there are a handful of cases in the U.S.where the courts have refused to enforce British libel judgement on...
[May 21, 1999, 8:06]
US 'will not enforce' encryption laws
News Bernstein's lawyers, with attorneys from the Electronic Frontier Foundation among them, complained that the encryption regulations had been repeatedly changed to derail Bernstein's case, which claimed the rules violated the First Amendment's...
[October 16, 2003, 15:20]
Dot-com deathwatch site puts memos online
News Still, he acknowledged that the law around such practices is complex and publishing the documents could be protected under the First Amendment. If he obtains information from somebody who got it wrongfully and he republishes it he may be immunised...
[July 31, 2002, 8:36]
NY accuses software maker of censorship
News As far as their First Amendment argument.the First Amendment applies against government actions," he said. The New York state attorney general's office sued security software maker Network Associates on Thursday over licensing language it says...
[February 8, 2002, 13:32]
US Report: "HateFilter" tackles racist sites
News In the ADL's press release on the debut of HateFilter, attorney and First Amendment expert Floyd Abrams is quoted as saying "By providing parents with the opportunity to block sites containing hate speech in their home at the same time as the...
[November 12, 1998, 14:29]
Judge orders identification of file swapper
News Bates said he did not consider the First Amendment claim since Verizon had not argued that point, but predicted that even if he had, the outcome would have been the same. Neither Verizon nor any amici has suggested that anonymously downloading more...
[January 22, 2003, 8:00]
Kazaa in child porn investigation
News First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end," a 6-3 majority of the justices wrote. David Greene, director of the First Amendment Project in Oakland...
[March 13, 2003, 10:01]
Blogging, and how to keep your job
News The First Amendment protects you only from censorial governments. What about the First Amendment? Being a blogger can get you in trouble nowadays, at least if you write something that sufficiently vexes your employer.
[March 9, 2005, 13:30]
Proof emerges of SCO's Microsoft link
News The reason: filing lawsuits is protected under the First Amendment. Sure, their underlying goals are anticompetitive, but they're exercising First Amendment rights in filing lawsuits," Gavil said. Word of the Microsoft matchmaking surfaced last...
[March 12, 2004, 7:25]
Small victory for studios in DVD-copying case
News The DVDCCA's case bifurcated after a second defendant, California resident Andrew Bunner, did not fight the court's jurisdiction but argued he had a First Amendment right to distribute DeCSS.exe. In November 2001, a California state appeals court...
[January 3, 2003, 8:24]
Reding: Telecoms Package to survive clause row
Blog It is not technically possible to confine the conciliation process to just Amendment 138 - at the very least, a large chunk of the Telecoms Package needs to go with it - but, according to the source, the key players from the first round of...
[June 25, 2009, 13:22]
