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  1. alojapan.com/1478936/a-man-was A Man Was Given A Suspended Jail Sentence In Japan For Posting Godzilla Spoilers Online #anime #coda #CopyrightLaw #DigitalPiracy #FairUse #GodzillaMinusOne #IntellectualProperty #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #KADOKAWA #MediaLaw #movies #news #spoilers #tōhō #TokyoDistrictCourt Credit: Toho We navigate the internet treating movie spoilers as a fact of life. A careless scroll exposes us to a hero’s sudden death or a surprise cameo,

  2. The court did not merely disagree with the Pentagon’s revised policy; it treated the changes as a continuation of restrictions already found unconstitutional. That suggests a deeper institutional conflict over who controls access to information inside the national-security state.
    #PressFreedom #Pentagon #FirstAmendment #MediaLaw #Journalism #Democracy #news

  3. Blue Murder at 30: how the miniseries transfixed Australia – and inspired death threats and bootlegs
    theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2
    Smith’s court proceedings meant the show was banned in NSW for six years, resulting in a demand for bootleg VHS tapes.
    Bastoni: The bootleg was sold in pubs all over Sydney as a two-pack VHS for about $400. Everyone wanted to see it.
    #TV #medialaw #bootlegging #auslaw #auspol

  4. The tiny record shop that faced down a culture war in court – and won theguardian.com/music/2025/jul
    'Brisbane’s Rocking Horse Records turns 50 this year – but it should also be celebrated for its role in facing down a ‘nonsense’ culture war that began with undercover cops and the Dead Kennedys'
    #music #history #auslaw #auspol #qldpol #medialaw

  5. Ziff Davis files major copyright lawsuit against OpenAI: Media giant accuses OpenAI of unauthorized use of content from its 45+ properties including CNET, IGN and Mashable. ppc.land/ziff-davis-files-majo #Copyright #OpenAI #ZiffDavis #MediaLaw #DigitalContent

  6. Georgetown hosted the Music Sustainability Forum, co-organized by SOC Professor @aram (Aram Sinnreich). The event brought together 60 leaders in cultural policy from government, industry, CSOs & academia. Students in Prof. Sinnreich’s Media Law & Policy class attended and engaged in high-level discussions.

    #CulturalPolicy #MusicSustainability #AUStudents #MediaLaw #SOCFaculty

  7. My respect and sympathies to the Judge for all the thought and careful reasoning put into instructing the Jury.

    Wouldn’t’ve been needed to if Media and Police were more respectful of prejudice concerns.
    theguardian.com/australia-news
    #AusLaw #TasLaw #MediaLaw

  8. @BlumeEvolution

    LibreTranslate didn't work well, so here's the Google translation from German, with my corrections to hashtags. (Please consider voting.)

    "I think it is a huge mistake that EU societies have largely left themselves at the mercy of Chinese, Russian and US digital companies due to weak #MediaLaw and a lack of #ChildProtection . What do you think?

    * I agree, it's a mistake.
    * No, I don't see a problem there.
    * Never thought about it.
    * Differently, namely..."

  9. "Publishing fake news for profit should be prosecuted as wire fraud" according to my PhD colleague.

    "To use the language of the law: the publisher obtains money by false pretenses. Publishing fake news is the pre-eminent example of a growing class of frauds that do not defraud.
    These are frauds where the dishonest acquisition of money or property is not accompanied by the dishonest deprivation of any particular person"

    #Law #FakeNews #USpol #Media #MediaLaw @phdstudents

    Check out his publish article here - digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/law

  10. While the Australia Act and Code could be criticised in various ways, it is a categorical error to identify it as a copyright problem. The Australian Act is a combination of media and communications law, competition law, and treasury powers accc.gov.au/by-industry/digita The Act is not a copyright act. The Act specifically excludes trade secrets as well. The government is not relying on the IP power under the Constitution. #auslaw #auspol #competitionlaw #medialaw #treasurypowers Not #copyright

  11. #EU #PressFreedom #MediaLaw #Surveillance #Journalism #Spyware: "EU governments want to allow state surveillance of journalists and their interlocutors, including the use of spyware, if security authorities deem it necessary. This is according to documents from the ongoing EU negotiations on the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), seen by Investigate Europe, netzpolitik.org and Follow the Money.

    The EU media law, proposed by the European Commission last September, intends to protect journalists and the media against political control by governments and owners. These are visibly endangering freedom of expression and media diversity in several EU countries, most notably in Poland and Hungary but also elsewhere, as experts like the authors of the annual Media Pluralism Monitor report at the European University Institute in Florence, have warned for years."

    investigate-europe.eu/en/2023/

  12. Ben Roberts-Smith loses defamation case with judge saying newspapers established truth of murders theguardian.com/australia-news Justice Anthony Besanko found newspapers established substantial or contextual truth of allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan. #auslaw #auspol #medialaw #defamation #freespeech #warcrimes