In the News
Sanna Kulevska, July 08, 2013
Abstract: As a newly born and fast expanded pay-to-delete industry grows, the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse database has recently received an increasing number of take-down notices from various individuals who want mugshots of them taken down from the Internet.
What are the legal challenges complainants face when trying to delete pictures from a time in their lives they would prefer to forget, especially when these pictures have become the currency in a morally obnoxious, but currently legal extortion business?
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Chilling Effects Team, June 19, 2013
Abstract: The Church of Scientology gets GoDaddy to take down an obvious parody site, but the EFF is on the case.
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British Ruling Sets Standards for Twitter Libel, Eric P. Robinson, Digital Media Law Project, June 03, 2013
Abstract: A British judge's decision that a tweet by Sally Bercow (wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow) libeled Lord Robert Alistair McAlpine (former Deputy Chairman and Party Treasurer of the Conservative Party and an aide to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher) shows -- if anyone still had doubts -- that tweets can indeed be libelous. In doing so, the ruling provides a good model for analyzing Twitter posts to determine whether they are defamatory.
Woodrow Hartzog, The Atlantic, May 10, 2013
Abstract: Chilling Effects regularly receives notices wherein people are seeking the removal, either from search engines or from hosting sites, of pornographic images of themselves that have "escaped" to the larger Internet. From time to time the images are even being disseminated by others on purpose, with malicious intent.
Given the ease with which digital technology and the Internet allow material to be copied, shared and stored, this is a challenging problem, to say the least.
This article from The Atlantic takes a look at one way in which to do it.
http://www.withoutmyconsent.org/ takes another approach.
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Non-profit Responds To Threatened Lawsuit From Ferrari By 'Remaking' Video To Hide The Ferrari, Mike Masnick, TechDirt, February 25, 2013
Abstract: Ferrari seeks to enforce its brand again, and is successful in getting the image of the Ferrari removed, but the response from the user,S wiss NGO alliance Solidar, is creative and educational.
Adam Holland, November 28, 2012
Abstract: In what has been described as a "landmark" ruling, an Australian court has found Google, Inc. liable for defamation, specifically libel, for not removing links from its search engine when asked to.
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Alan Massengale, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, UC-Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Ha, October 27, 2006
Abstract: Can the owners of websites whose users post intimate and salacious details about the personal lives of others be held liable for libel?
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Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, September 06, 2006
Abstract: The California Supreme Court showed little inclination Tuesday to allow suits against Internet service providers such as Google and Yahoo by people who claim they were libeled online.
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Dow Jones Must Defend Action on Web Defamation in Australia, Dow Jones Newswire, December 10, 2002
Abstract: MELBOURNE, Australia -- Business news publisher Dow Jones & Co. will have to defend a defamation action in Australia's Victoria State after the nation's High Court unanimously rejected its appeal to have the case heard in the U.S.
Melbourne businessman Joseph Gutnick has alleged he was defamed in an October 2000 article that appeared in Dow Jones's New York-based Barron's magazine and was also made available on the Internet (the Barron's Web site is www.barrons.com). The decision has potentially major ramifications for Internet publishing world-wide.
It's bloody hard to run a forum (in Sweden), Drew Cullen, The Register, March 08, 2002
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