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Opinion: Court got it wrong in ruling clicking ‘like’ on Facebook not free speech issue

donal brown May 31, 2012

A federal judge ruled that clicking the “like” button on Facebook was “insufficient speech” to warrant protection under the First Amendment. But First Amendment Center President Ken Paulson does not see how pressing the like button is any different from saying “I like such and such a candidate,” obviously protected speech. -db From a commentary for the First Amendment Center, May 31, 2012, by Ken Paulson. Full story    

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Columbia Pictures wins lawsuit over omission of man from ‘The Social Network’

donal brown May 15, 2012

A Harvard classmate of Mark Zuckerberg who earlier settled a suit with Zuckerberg over the ‘Facebook’ trademark, lost his bid in Massachusetts court to establish a new tort, “defamation by omission.” The classmate, Aaron Greenspan, said in omitting him from the movie “The Social Network,” the filmmakers were belittling his role in developing Facebook. -db From The Hollywood Reporter, May 14, 2012, by Eriq Gardner. Full story    

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Opinion: Suggestions made for saving news industry

donal brown April 26, 2012

Speakers at a conference for media executives urged them to bolster the bottom line by radically changing the way they presented the news. Among their suggestions were to provide more context for and linkages to the news; provide more analysis; and employ alternatives to the narrative form, e.g., “Fusion Tables and query strings, status updates and tweets.” -db From a commentary in paidContent, April 26,2012, by Robert Andrews. Full story  

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Whistleblower suing Rolls Royce for protests over alleged environmental infraction

donal brown March 8, 2012

Claiming he was fired for protesting environmental violations, a Louisana man is suing Rolls Royce Commercial Marine under the Louisiana Environmental Whistleblower Statute. The employee noticed that a hole in a storage tank was patched in a hasty and substandard way and attempted to bring the issue to his superiors. -db From  the Courthouse News Service, March 8, 2012, by Sabrina Canfield. Full story    

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Minnesota mother sues school district for punishing daughter over Facebook entry

donal brown March 8, 2012

A mother is suing a Minnesota school district for violating her 12-year-0ld daughter’s First Amendment rights. The school punished the girl for saying a hall monitor was mean. The complaint says the girl’s comments on Facebook could not cause a substantial disruption to the school and was not obscene or threatening. -db From the Courthouse News Service, March 8, 2012, by Glynis Farrell. Full story  

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