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PayPal curtails censorship after complaints from free speech advocates

donal brown March 15, 2012

PayPal said it would began accepting transactions involving books containing descriptions of rape, incest and bestiality. Free speech organizations had earlier protested that under PayPal policy classics such as Sophocles’ Oedipus and Ovid’s Metamorphoses would be censored. PayPal said it would still censor e-books that violated U.S. obscenity laws. -db From the Courthouse News Service, March 14, 2012, by Nick McCann. Full story    

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Federal court finds online newspaper excerpts fair use

donal brown March 12, 2012

A Nevada federal district court declared that an online forum is not liable for user posts and that the practice of excerpting a few sentences and linking to articles elsewhere is fair use and not copyright violation. The court’s judgment came in one of the cases appealed by Righthaven who had brought a number of nuisance lawsuits to contest trivial uses of newspaper content, writes Kurt Opsahl for the Electronic Freedom Foundation. -db From a

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Oregon company argues that blogger who allegedly defamed it does not deserve new trial

donal brown February 6, 2012

Obsidian Finance Group who won a round in court against a blogger for defamation says the blogger does not deserve a new trial. A court awarded Obsidian$2.5 million in damages for one post. The blogger is seeking to appeal the award with the Electric Frontier Foundation filing an amicus brief arguing the judgment was a threat to free speech. -db From the Courthouse News Service, February 6, 2012, by Nick McCann. Full story    

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Appeal in the works in Twitter/WikiLeaks case

donal brown January 23, 2012

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are set to file an appeal concerning the U.S. government’s attempts to obtain Twitter records in their investigation of WikiLeaks. The ACLU and EFF are seeking to prevent the government from sealing records of their efforts to obtain private information of Internet users without a warrant. -db From a press release by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, January 20, 2012. Full release  

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Google finds cause in Righthaven appeal

donal brown January 17, 2012

Google has filed an amicus brief in the appeal of a Righthaven case to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arguing for flexibility in applying the fair use doctrine. The case under appeal pitted Righthaven against the Center for Intercultural Organizing over the Center’s posting of a Las Vegas Review-Journal article. -db From the Courthouse News Service, January 16, 2012, by Maria Dinzeo. Full story  

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