Here’s a libel case to watch: Prof Michael Mann of the USA versus climate-change deniers. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and The National Review attacked Mann, author of the hockey stick curve which, he says, proves there is global warning. But they attacked in a way which, Mann claims, is a libel in the USA. Read More
Category: US media law
US Congress moves against “pirates”: Wikipedia protests
The US Congress is taking ”piracy” of US intellectual property seriously by proposing to attack the financial basis of foreign sites running copyright material without permission. Two acts are in Congress to let media owners force search engines to stop linking to “pirate” sites and stop US advertisers advertising. Wikipedia offline in protest The opposition Read More
US libel turns nasty
You may have heard a lot recently about how lenient the US libel laws are. Think again. A US doctor has been awarded $10 million in damages because a Florida paper said he had left his post at a Florida hospital under investigation for illicit activity. He sued. The judge said he was a public Read More
Separate publication online upheld
A European court ruling has underlined that there is a separate publication in online archives. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has in its formal statement ruled that the UK libel law, which says an Internet archive of a paper publication is a separate publication, is OK. Publishers, editors, writers and sources can therefore Read More