The Media and The Law F07

Mock Trial #2 took place on Thursday, November 15, 2007. The issue was illegally downloading music.

Here is a brief slideshow:

Use this blog posting to list your comments on the Tuesday, November 13, 2007 assignment.

Okay ... so I read the NYTimes regularly (though I don't always read it all in one day). Here's an article that describes a company that will track the use of copyrighted material that is used on the Internet. I like it. The motives are strictly to police the situation ...

Publishers See Way to Track Their Contnet Across the Net

Wow, we sort of discussed this in class ... who knew:

From the New York Times:
The FCC ends sole Cable Deals for Apartments

Here's an article about students who are rallying for free access to files - all kinds of files. Based on the info in the article, it seems the org would be better off w/just one focus. I think I will put this book on my reading list though "Free Culture".

Check out the New York Times article here.

The other thing to note here is that some people make a living as musicians and how are they going to make money if they make all of their product available for free? Sure they could tour and sell other merchandising ... but the focus is on the music.

There has to be another option to satisfy both the artist and the consumer.

Here is the follow-up to who gets the rights to a dead celebrities estate.

We will discuss this issue more in class next week. This article is from the New York Times:

Plan Would Ease Limits on Media Owenrs

What are your thoughts on this?

This is an interesting contempt case ... the judge is ordering the reporter to produce a story ...

This article was in Friday's New York Times.

Some people take the risk thinking that they will beat the system, but it's still a risk and this was proved costly.

Here is the link.

This was interesting because as the article states, it is unusual for a judge to interfere with the publishing or airing of a news story.