In a judgment handed down on 20 October 2017, Nicol J held that a statement in a Home Office press release which meant that Dr Salman Butt was “an extremist hate speaker who legitimises terrorism” was a statement of opinion rather than fact. There was a One Brick Court case comment. Read the rest of this entry »
Law and Media Round Up – 23 October 2017
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Categories : Legal, Media
Can new models of public interest journalism survive? – Robert Cribb
22 10 2017
Over the past year, 34 students at four Canadian journalism schools — Concordia, Ryerson, Regina and the University of British Columbia — joined together with senior journalists at three national news organizations — the Toronto Star, Global News and the National Observer — in an unprecedented reporting collaboration. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: public interest journalism, Robert Cribb, The Conversation
Categories : Canada, Journalism
Online Publication Claims: an Introduction – Guy Vassall-Adams QC and Hugh Tomlinson QC
20 10 2017
The Internet has brought about a global communications revolution. An individual who wishes to communicate with others no longer needs a printing press or a broadcasting operation. Instead information can be communicated worldwide with a few keystrokes. Words, sounds, pictures or videos can, potentially, be communicated to the nearly 48% of the world’s population – 3.2 billion people – who are now estimated to use the internet (see ITU figures). Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Guy Vassall-Adams QC, Hugh Tomlinson QC, Matrix Chambers, Online Publication Claims
Categories : Data Protection, Harassment, Internet, Libel, Privacy
Australia: “Heroic” or just plain risky? Twitter’s approach to proceedings backfires – Simon Johnson and Freda Chan
20 10 2017
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Tags: Freda Chan, Simon Johnson, Twitter
Categories : Australia, Injunction, Internet, Social Media
How to regulate Facebook and the online giants in one word: transparency – George Brock
19 10 2017
Demands to regulate hi-tech companies like Google, Facebook and Apple are being heard at deafening pitch almost every day. This rush by the political herd on both sides of the Atlantic to make new laws (or to enforce the breakup of these corporations) is no better focused or thought-out than the extraordinary degree of latitude which the same political classes were prepared to allow the same online platforms only a couple of years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Facebook, George Brock, Google, The Conversation
Categories : Media Regulation, Social Media
Why the Leveson Inquiry must be allowed to finish its work – Justin Schlosberg
18 10 2017
Last week Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) admitted “vicarious liability” in illegal hacking that went far beyond mere interception of voicemails. The court was told about a spyware programme could Eblaster which was used by private investigators to comprehensively spy on a former army intelligence officer and pass details on to NGN. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Justin Schlosberg, Media Reform Coalition
Categories : Leveson Inquiry, Media
Inforrm: Happy Four Million Hits
17 10 2017
The Inforrm blog to day reached four million hits – nearly 8 years after our launch. Once again, we would like to thank all our readers and the many people who have contributed to the success of the blog over this period and particularly the large number of people who have written for us since 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
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