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What The Lawyers Who Sue The Press Think Of The Press, And Media Law, Jonathan Peters
What The Lawyers Who Sue The Press Think Of The Press, And Media Law, Jonathan Peters
Popular Media
“HAVE A SCORE TO SETTLE WITH THE PRESS? Charles Harder, the media lawyer who ground Gawker.com to dust, is your man.”
That was the subhead of a GQ profile of Harder published in 2016, after he won a $140 million jury verdict for Hulk Hogan against Gawker (later settled for $31 million). The profile went on to say that Harder had established himself “as perhaps the greatest threat in the United States to journalists, the First Amendment, and the very notion of a free press.”
Whether or not that’s true, Harder has said it would be “awesome” if the Gawker …
The Modern Fight For Media Freedom In The United States, Jonathan Peters
The Modern Fight For Media Freedom In The United States, Jonathan Peters
Scholarly Works
The First Amendment as a subject is challenging and provocative, and scholarly and popular understandings of it are changing. New communication technologies are pushing lawyers, judges, and scholars to revisit, and sometimes rethink, old legal doctrines and concepts. In the area of privacy, we have to think today about encryption and a website's terms of service. In the area of copyright, we have to think about peer-to-peer file sharing and the licenses granted by iTunes. In the area of sexual expression, we have to think about sexting, revenge porn, and deep fakes.'
This is the emerging state of play for …