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A Matter Of Facts: The Evolution Of Copyright’S Fact-Exclusion And Its Implications For Disinformation And Democracy, Jessica Silbey
A Matter Of Facts: The Evolution Of Copyright’S Fact-Exclusion And Its Implications For Disinformation And Democracy, Jessica Silbey
Faculty Scholarship
The Article begins with a puzzle: the curious absence of an express fact-exclusion from copyright protection in both the Copyright Act and its legislative history despite it being a well-founded legal principle. It traces arguments in the foundational Supreme Court case (Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service) and in the Copyright Act’s legislative history to discern a basis for the fact-exclusion. That research trail produces a legal genealogy of the fact-exclusion based in early copyright common law anchored by canonical cases, Baker v. Selden, Burrow-Giles v. Sarony, and Wheaton v. Peters. Surprisingly, none of them …
All The News That’S Fit To Be Identified: Facilitating Access To High-Quality News Through Internet Platforms, Sonja R. West, Jonathan Peters, Lefteris Jason Anastasopolous
All The News That’S Fit To Be Identified: Facilitating Access To High-Quality News Through Internet Platforms, Sonja R. West, Jonathan Peters, Lefteris Jason Anastasopolous
Scholarly Works
Roughly half of Americans get some of their news from social media, and nearly two-thirds get some of their news from search engines. As our modern information gatekeepers, these internet companies bear a special responsibility to consider the impact of their platform and site policies on users’ access to high-quality news sources. They should adopt policies that clear the digital pathway between the public and press by facilitating such access. To that end, the companies must first, address the threshold issue of how best to identify high-quality news sources. This article examines factors that would be useful, drawing from legal …
Law School News: Rwu Alumni Named To Pbn's 2023 40 Under Forty List 7/5/2023, Stacey Pacheco
Law School News: Rwu Alumni Named To Pbn's 2023 40 Under Forty List 7/5/2023, Stacey Pacheco
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Integrating Doctrine & Diversity Speaker Series: The Rule Of Law In Crisis: Talking About Core Legal Values, Human Rights, And Current Events In Us Law School Classes 2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Integrating Doctrine & Diversity Speaker Series: The Rule Of Law In Crisis: Talking About Core Legal Values, Human Rights, And Current Events In Us Law School Classes 2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
No abstract provided.
Integrating Doctrine & Diversity Speaker Series: The Rule Of Law In Crisis 3-28-2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Integrating Doctrine & Diversity Speaker Series: The Rule Of Law In Crisis 3-28-2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
No abstract provided.
Law School News: A Voice For Justice 3-1-2023, Janine L. Weisman, Roger Williams University School O Law
Law School News: A Voice For Justice 3-1-2023, Janine L. Weisman, Roger Williams University School O Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Law Library Blog (January 2022): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (January 2022): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Newsletters/Blog
No abstract provided.
2022-2023 School Year, St. Mary's University School Of Law
2022-2023 School Year, St. Mary's University School Of Law
The Witan
No abstract provided.
An Uncomfortable Truth: Indigenous Communities And Law In New England: Roger Williams University Law Review Symposium 10/22/2021, Roger Williams University School Of Law
An Uncomfortable Truth: Indigenous Communities And Law In New England: Roger Williams University Law Review Symposium 10/22/2021, Roger Williams University School Of Law
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
No abstract provided.
Law School News: Adjunct Professor Of The Year 2021: David Coombs 05/19/2021, Michael M. Bowden
Law School News: Adjunct Professor Of The Year 2021: David Coombs 05/19/2021, Michael M. Bowden
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
2021-2022 School Year, St. Mary's University School Of Law
2021-2022 School Year, St. Mary's University School Of Law
The Witan
No abstract provided.
2020-2021 School Year, St. Mary's University School Of Law
2020-2021 School Year, St. Mary's University School Of Law
The Witan
No abstract provided.
Platforms And The Fall Of The Fourth Estate: Looking Beyond The First Amendment To Protect Watchdog Journalism, Erin C. Carroll
Platforms And The Fall Of The Fourth Estate: Looking Beyond The First Amendment To Protect Watchdog Journalism, Erin C. Carroll
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Journalists see the First Amendment as an amulet, and with good reason. It has long protected the Fourth Estate—an independent institutional press—in its exercise of editorial discretion to check government power. This protection helped the Fourth Estate flourish in the second half of the twentieth century and ably perform its constitutional watchdog role.
But in the last two decades, the media ecology has changed. The Fourth Estate has been subsumed by a Networked Press in which journalists are joined by engineers, algorithms, audience, and other human and non-human actors in creating and distributing news. The Networked Press’s most powerful members …
Fall 2019 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood
Fall 2019 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood
Law Library Newsletter
Copy of the Fall 2019 issue of the UMass Law Library Newsletter, The Docket.
Kline & Specter: A Professional Corporation, Ibraheem Bussey
Kline & Specter: A Professional Corporation, Ibraheem Bussey
Media and Communication Studies Presentations
No abstract provided.
Spring 2019 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood
Spring 2019 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood
Law Library Newsletter
Copy of the Spring 2019 issue of the UMass Law Library Newsletter, The Docket.
Law Library Blog (January 2019): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (January 2019): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Newsletters/Blog
No abstract provided.
What's News?, Michael J. Madison
What's News?, Michael J. Madison
Articles
This review of Will Slauter’s Who Owns the News? (2019) highlights three ways in which its history of copyright in news tracks and illustrates key themes in the history of cultural policy. One is how copyright law and journalistic style co-evolved, confirming the attributes of modern journalism itself and deploying style as a device for defining the scope of news producers’ legitimate copyright claims. In the news, as elsewhere in copyright, exclusivity and genre largely co-created each other. Two is how the labor and skill of individual human producers of knowledge are often hidden amid prominent debates about relationships between …
Law Library Blog (November 2018): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (November 2018): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Newsletters/Blog
No abstract provided.
Law Library Blog (March 2018): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (March 2018): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Newsletters/Blog
No abstract provided.
Suing The President For First Amendment Violations, Sonja R. West
Suing The President For First Amendment Violations, Sonja R. West
Scholarly Works
On any given day, it seems, President Donald Trump can be found attacking, threatening, or punishing the press and other individuals whose speech he dislikes. His actions, moreover, inevitably raise the question: Do any of these individuals or organizations (or any future ones) have a viable claim against the President for violating their First Amendment rights?
One might think that the ability to sue the President for violation of the First Amendment would be relatively settled. The answer, however, is not quite that straightforward. Due to several unique qualities about the First Amendment and the presidency, it is not entirely …
Presidential Attacks On The Press, Sonja R. West
Presidential Attacks On The Press, Sonja R. West
Scholarly Works
President Donald Trump’s habit of hurling invectives at the press is disturbing. It undermines the work of the press and breaks long-standing norms that presidents show respect for the role of the Fourth Estate. But insults alone rarely raise First Amendment issues. Presidents have long used the bully pulpit to respond to or criticize news reports. Even Trump’s near daily verbal assaults on reporters and news organizations can be considered part of our country’s “uninhibited, robust, and wide-open” marketplace of ideas. Presidents have opinions too, and journalists should be able to handle his rants.
Yet there are also times when …
"Enemy Of The People": Negotiating News At The White House, Carol Pauli
"Enemy Of The People": Negotiating News At The White House, Carol Pauli
Faculty Scholarship
How can the press serve as a check on executive power when the president calls it “fake” and the White House denies facts? As journalists debate the right response, this article offers advice from the perspective of a journalist who is now in the legal academy. Drawing on legal scholarship in the field of conflict resolution — as well as literature in journalism and political science — this article analyzes the White House press briefing as a negotiation over both the content of news and the relationship of the press and president. It aims to help the press fulfill the …
In Re Akhbar Beirut & Al Amin, Monica Hakimi
In Re Akhbar Beirut & Al Amin, Monica Hakimi
Articles
On August 29, 2016, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (Tribunal) sentenced a corporate media enterprise and one of its employees for contemptuously interfering with the Tribunal's proceedings in Ayyash, a prosecution concerning the February 2005 terrorist attack that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. The contempt decision is significant for two reasons: (1) it adopts an expansive definition of the crime of contempt to restrict a journalist's freedom of expression; and (2) it is the first international judicial decision to hold a corporate entity criminally responsible.
Spring 2017 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma Wood
Spring 2017 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma Wood
Law Library Newsletter
Copy of the Spring 2017 issue of the UMass Law Library Newsletter, The Docket.
Newsroom: Panel: The Press & The President 3-28-2017, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Panel: The Press & The President 3-28-2017, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Law Library Blog (March 2017): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (March 2017): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Newsletters/Blog
No abstract provided.
Fall 2017 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood
Fall 2017 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood
Law Library Newsletter
Copy of the Fall 2017 issue of the UMass Law Library Newsletter, The Docket.
Fall 2016 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma Wood
Fall 2016 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma Wood
Law Library Newsletter
Copy of the Fall 2016 issue of the UMass Law Library Newsletter, The Docket.
Spring 2016 Newsletter, Emma Wood
Spring 2016 Newsletter, Emma Wood
Law Library Newsletter
Copy of the Spring 2016 UMass Law Library Newsletter.