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Machine Speech: Towards A Unified Doctrine Of Attribution And Control, Brian Sites
Machine Speech: Towards A Unified Doctrine Of Attribution And Control, Brian Sites
University of Miami Law Review
Like many courts across the country in 2023, courts in the Eleventh Circuit were met with novel claims challenging ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools. These cases raise common questions: How should courts treat the speech of machines? When a machine generates allegedly defamatory material, who is the speaker—mortal or machine? When a machine generates expressive creations, who is the artist, and does that shape copyright eligibility? When a machine makes assertions about reality through lab analyses and other forensic reports, who is the accuser, and how does the answer impact a defendant’s rights at trial? Should those answers stem …
A How-To Guide For When Your Favorite Meme Account Is Defamed: Involuntary Public Figures In Defamation, Privacy, And Intentional Infliction Of Emotional Distress Law, Elizabeth Mcmullen
A How-To Guide For When Your Favorite Meme Account Is Defamed: Involuntary Public Figures In Defamation, Privacy, And Intentional Infliction Of Emotional Distress Law, Elizabeth Mcmullen
Catholic University Journal of Law and Technology
The world we live in today has changed infinitely since the inception of our Constitution and early legal doctrine. Our Founding Fathers could never have predicted that we would one day live in a world where anyone living in any corner of the globe could garner millions of followers. Whether someone finds him or herself to be particularly proficient in writing Harry Potter fan fiction or to be the best creator of memes with an American Girl Doll focus, ordinary citizens could find themselves suddenly jolted out of quiet anonymity by one unexpectedly viral post. Despite years of Instagram micro-fame, …
Permanent Injunctions In Defamation Actions, Hilary Young
Permanent Injunctions In Defamation Actions, Hilary Young
Dalhousie Law Journal
Permanent injunctions prohibiting defamatory speech are increasingly sought and ordered following a finding of liability. This may seem unproblematic since a court will have found the particular speech to be unlawful—defamatory and likely false. However, there are good reasons to be cautious in permanently enjoining defamatory speech. This article shows that courts have recognized a test for permanent injunctions in defamation cases based on a misinterpretation of the case law—a test which is inconsistent with first principles of equitable relief. It then proposes a number of guidelines and principles for permanent injunctive relief in defamation actions. Most proposals relate to …
Defamation In The Twenty First Century: Some Observations And A Brief Taxonomy, John G. Culhane
Defamation In The Twenty First Century: Some Observations And A Brief Taxonomy, John G. Culhane
Lincoln Memorial University Law Review Archive
Defamation law has had a bumpy ride lately. Designed as a mechanism for the restoration of unfairly sullied reputations, recent high-profile cases have revealed the tort’s limitations in the era of social media saturation and virality. Some of these cases should never have been brought, while others would more naturally have been based in other torts, including intentional infliction of emotional distress or interference with business relations.
Beginning with a brief, targeted history of defamation law that focuses on its essential purpose, this article then discusses several recent, high-profile cases that have both exposed the limitations of defamation law and …
Fuoco V. Polisena, 244 A.3d 124 (R.I. 2021), David Marks
Fuoco V. Polisena, 244 A.3d 124 (R.I. 2021), David Marks
Roger Williams University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Henry V. Media General Operations, Inc., 254 A.3d 822 (R.I. 2021), Stefanie D. Fischer
Henry V. Media General Operations, Inc., 254 A.3d 822 (R.I. 2021), Stefanie D. Fischer
Roger Williams University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Gag With Malice, Shaakirrah R. Sanders
Gag With Malice, Shaakirrah R. Sanders
Washington and Lee Law Review
This Article brings agriculture privacy and other commercial gagging laws into the ongoing debate on the First Amendment actual malice rule announced in New York Times v. Sullivan. Despite a resurgence in contemporary jurisprudence, Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch have recently questioned the wisdom and viability of Sullivan, which originally applied actual malice to state law defamation claims brought by public officials. The Court later extended the actual malice rule to public figures, to claims for infliction of emotional distress, and—as discussed in this Article—to claims for invasion of privacy and to issues of public importance or concern.
United …
Defaming The President, Douglas B. Mckechnie
Defaming The President, Douglas B. Mckechnie
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
No abstract provided.
K-Pop’S Secret Weapon: South Korea’S Criminal Defamation Laws, Rebecca Xu
K-Pop’S Secret Weapon: South Korea’S Criminal Defamation Laws, Rebecca Xu
San Diego International Law Journal
South Korea’s criminal defamation laws have long been considered an intrusion on the free speech rights of citizens, especially in regard to the usage by politicians against their opponents and journalists to suppress criticisms. This Comment considers the history and effects of these controversial defamation laws through the lens of recent scandals within the Korean entertainment industry, where regular citizens accusing Korean celebrities of past school violence are confronted with threats of defamation charges. To highlight the controversial nature of such laws, comparisons will be drawn between South Korea and other countries to highlight the restrictive nature of Korea’s laws.
Rethinking Absolute Immunity From Defamation Suits In Private Quasi-Judicial Proceedings, Nat Stern
Rethinking Absolute Immunity From Defamation Suits In Private Quasi-Judicial Proceedings, Nat Stern
The University of New Hampshire Law Review
No abstract provided.
Dentistry And The Law: Can Dental Plan Ratings Be Defamatory?, Dan Schulte Jd
Dentistry And The Law: Can Dental Plan Ratings Be Defamatory?, Dan Schulte Jd
The Journal of the Michigan Dental Association
This article discusses the legal implications of dental plan ratings for dentists. If a dental plan assigns a rating to dentists and publishes it to patients without providing specific information about the rating's basis or an opportunity for dentists to contest it, legal recourse may be limited. Currently, no statutory law regulates such ratings, leaving dentists potentially vulnerable to defamatory ratings. Under Michigan law, dentists could sue for defamation, but proving the rating's falseness and the resulting loss of patients may be challenging. Federal regulation is suggested to ensure fairness, transparency, and protection for dentists subjected to involuntary ratings.
Moving Unit Video Television (T/A Muvi Tv Limited) V. Francis Mwiinga Maingaila Scz Selected Judgment No. 18 Of 2019, Chanda Chungu
Moving Unit Video Television (T/A Muvi Tv Limited) V. Francis Mwiinga Maingaila Scz Selected Judgment No. 18 Of 2019, Chanda Chungu
SAIPAR Case Review
This case dealt with an employee of Muvi TV Limited who was accused of defiling an under-age girl whom he had had offered accommodation to. He was videoed being arrested by a police officer and the news read as follows “Journalist defiled a 13-year old girl”. This news story was repeated on several subsequent news broadcasts by Muvi TV.
This story was published before any conviction was made in criminal proceedings. A medical report revealed that the girl had not been defiled and this was available before the story was released. However, despite the medical report being available, before the …
Republication Liability On The Web, Jeffrey Standen
Republication Liability On The Web, Jeffrey Standen
Marquette Law Review
The tort of defamation evolved in an era where defamatory speech was published in books, magazines, newspapers, or other printed documents. The doctrines that are antecedent to the tort, such as publication, fault, defamation per se, presumed damages, and republication liability, similarly presumed that most defamation would appear in written form in a published work. Similarly, the significant limitations on defamation liability that were produced by a succession of Supreme Court constitutional precedent, including restrictions on prior restraint, heightened fault standards, expanded “public” classes, the “fact/opinion” dichotomy, and the “truth/substantial truth” burden shifting, also were based on a publishing world …
Proving Racism: Gibson Bros. Inc. V. Oberlin College And The Implications On Defamation Law, Liam H. Mcmillin
Proving Racism: Gibson Bros. Inc. V. Oberlin College And The Implications On Defamation Law, Liam H. Mcmillin
University of Cincinnati Law Review
No abstract provided.
Protecting Women's Voices: Preventing Retaliatory Defamation Claims In The #Metoo Context, Nicole Ligon
Protecting Women's Voices: Preventing Retaliatory Defamation Claims In The #Metoo Context, Nicole Ligon
St. John's Law Review
(Excerpt)
As part of a personal commitment to positively utilize my legal skills, I joined the Legal Network for Gender Equity, a group of attorneys who support individuals seeking to come forward about their experiences with sexual harassment and assault. Through this network, I regularly counsel women who want to share their stories but are concerned that by doing so, they may open themselves up to costly defamation suits from their aggressors. Their concerns are not so much rooted in any notion that their stories are or could actually be defamatory. Instead, these concerns often stem from a recognition that …
The Unidentified Wrongdoer, Ronen Perry
The Unidentified Wrongdoer, Ronen Perry
Georgia Law Review
This Article addresses the untheorized and under-researched problem of strong unidentifiability in tort law, namely the victim’s occasional inability to identify the direct wrongdoer, or even an ascertainable group to which the wrongdoer belongs, and bring an action against him or her. This Article offers a systematic analysis and a general theoretical framework for the appraisal of possible solutions to strong unidentifiability problems, which undermine liability and frustrate its goals.
Part I presents the main legal models developed and used to overcome these problems in different contexts and various legal systems: adherence to direct liability with creative procedural identification tools, …
The Duty Not To Continue Distributing Your Own Libels, Eugene Volokh
The Duty Not To Continue Distributing Your Own Libels, Eugene Volokh
Notre Dame Law Review
Say something I wrote about you online (in a newspaper, a blog, or a social media page) turns out to be false and defamatory. Assume I wasn’t culpable when I first posted it, but now I’m on notice of the error.
Am I liable for defamation if I fail to remove or correct the erroneous material? Surprisingly, courts haven’t settled on an answer, and scholars haven’t focused on the question. Libel law is stuck in a time when newspapers left the publisher’s control as soon as they are printed—even though now an article or a post can be seen on …
Mineral Sands Resources (Pty) Ltd And Another V Redell And Others And Two Related Cases 2021 Sa 268 (Wcc), Dunia P. Zongwe
Mineral Sands Resources (Pty) Ltd And Another V Redell And Others And Two Related Cases 2021 Sa 268 (Wcc), Dunia P. Zongwe
SAIPAR Case Review
This case teaches activists how to respond when they get SLAPPed. It introduced a defense mechanism to prevent lawsuits launched by big corporations to silence criticisms. North American lawyers commonly refer to these lawsuits as ‘strategic litigation (or lawsuits) against public participation (SLAPP). Two scholars from the United States of America (US) coined this acronym.2 And, in 2021, for the first time in South Africa, a court recognized the SLAPP phenomenon and accepted a defense against this kind of lawsuits.
When big corporations SLAPP activists and journalists, and their lawyers, judges should not slap back those corporations by accepting anti-SLAPP …
The Scope Of Canadian Defamation Injunctions, Hilary Young
The Scope Of Canadian Defamation Injunctions, Hilary Young
Dalhousie Law Journal
Free speech is engaged when courts enjoin defamatory or allegedly defamatory speech on an interlocutory or permanent basis. This paper explores the justifiable scope of defamation injunctions and compares that to what courts do.
The study reveals that Canadian defamation injunctions regularly go far beyond what is justifiable. For example, 16% of defamation injunctions involved orders not to speak about the plaintiff at all, which is overbroad since that includes true and otherwise lawful speech. Other orders prohibit saying disparaging (as opposed to unlawful) things—again overbroad. Orders not to defame may be vague because it is unclear whether, in context, …
Freedom Of Expression V. Social Responsibility On The Internet: Vivi Down Association V. Google, Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Natalina Stamile
Freedom Of Expression V. Social Responsibility On The Internet: Vivi Down Association V. Google, Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Natalina Stamile
Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental, & Innovation Law
The aim of the article is to reflect on Google’s social responsibility by analyzing a milestone court decision, Vivi Down Association v. Google, that took place in Italy, involving the posting of an offensive video clip on Google Video. It was a landmark decision because it refuted the assertion that the Internet knows no boundaries, that the Internet transcends national laws due to its international nature, and that Internet intermediaries, such as Google, are above the law. This case shows that when the legal authorities of a given country decide to assert their jurisdiction, Internet companies need to abide by …
Free Speech In The Balance: Judicial Sanctions And Frivolous Slapp Suits, Shine Sean Tu, Nicholas F. Stump
Free Speech In The Balance: Judicial Sanctions And Frivolous Slapp Suits, Shine Sean Tu, Nicholas F. Stump
Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
The balance between free speech and access to courts in defamation tort actions is fraught with public policy concerns. On one hand, plaintiffs should have unencumbered access to the justice system to remedy real harms brought upon them by defamatory statements. However, defamation suits should not be wielded to suppress the constitutionally protected free speech rights of news organizations and of concerned citizens that are vital for well-functioning democracies. This Article argues for a new type of remedy, namely enhanced Rule 11 attorney sanctions, such as suspension or debarment, that should be available to defendants of defamation suits brought by …
The Contribution Of Eu Law To The Regulation Of Online Speech, Luc Von Danwitz
The Contribution Of Eu Law To The Regulation Of Online Speech, Luc Von Danwitz
Michigan Technology Law Review
Internet regulation in the European Union (EU) is receiving significant attention and criticism in the United States. The European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) judgment in the case Glawischnig-Piesczek v. Facebook Ireland, in which the ECJ found a take-down order against Facebook for defamatory content with global effect permissible under EU law, was closely scrutinized in the United States. These transsystemic debates are valuable but need to be conducted with a thorough understanding of the relevant legal framework and its internal logic. This note aims to provide the context to properly assess the role the ECJ and EU law play …
Guilt By Association On The Docks And In The Casinos, Conor Byrnes
Guilt By Association On The Docks And In The Casinos, Conor Byrnes
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Tindak Pidana Pencemaran Nama Baik Melalui Facebook Menurut Kuhp Dan Undang-Undang Nomor 11 Tahun 2008 Tentang Ite, Arif Satria Subekti, Novian Ardynata Setya Pradana, Ajrina Yuka Ardhira, Mukhammad Tismandico Ilham Zulfikar
Tindak Pidana Pencemaran Nama Baik Melalui Facebook Menurut Kuhp Dan Undang-Undang Nomor 11 Tahun 2008 Tentang Ite, Arif Satria Subekti, Novian Ardynata Setya Pradana, Ajrina Yuka Ardhira, Mukhammad Tismandico Ilham Zulfikar
Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan
The size of an action can be named as defaming the reputation of others is still unclear because many factors must be studied. In the case of defamation or defamation that is protected, the protection of others for the other person's point of view is protected and the agreed name in the eyes of others. Someone even the authorities will face us to account for a word that we have made against someone. Being asked to act disgracefully can help fight in the community. More than that, in solving problems, the legal people are actually required to really determine the …
Shockingly Evil: The Cruel Invasive Appropriation And Exploitation Of Victims' Rights Of Publicity In The True Crime Genre, Ashton Williams
Shockingly Evil: The Cruel Invasive Appropriation And Exploitation Of Victims' Rights Of Publicity In The True Crime Genre, Ashton Williams
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
America's obsession with the true crime genre has evoked an explosion in volume and variety of recreations of the country's most prolific crimes. The never-ending re-enactments constantly barrage the victims and family members of those who suffered at the hands of the killers. The nightmare of the crimes they already endured never cease, as victims are forced to relive their worst torments via movies, television shows, and podcasts discussing the crimes. Producers and directors are currently free to appropriate and capitalize off of individuals' images without so much as a consultation. From dramatic depictions by actors to docuseries evaluations of …
Review Law: New York Defamation Applied To Online Consumer Reviews, Ian Lewis-Slammon
Review Law: New York Defamation Applied To Online Consumer Reviews, Ian Lewis-Slammon
St. John's Law Review
(Excerpt)
In early July 2017, Michelle Levine booked her first and only appointment with gynecologist Dr. Joon Song for an annual exam. Ms. Levine had a dissatisfying experience with the office. She claims that Dr. Song’s office did not follow up with her for almost a month, and that when she called to ask about the results of a blood test, Dr. Song’s staff falsely informed her that she tested positive for herpes. To top it off, Ms. Levine alleges that the office overcharged her. Following this experience, Ms. Levine did what many others do when dissatisfied with a product …
Guess Who? Reducing The Role Of Juries In Determining Libel Plaintiffs' Identities, Nat Stern
Guess Who? Reducing The Role Of Juries In Determining Libel Plaintiffs' Identities, Nat Stern
St. John's Law Review
(Excerpt)
During the nomination hearings for now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh, considerable attention was drawn to a high school friend’s memoir featuring a fellow student named “Bart O’Kavanaugh.” By the memoir’s account, “O’Kavanaugh” in one episode blacked out—apparently from alcohol—on his return from a party. For any number of possible reasons, Justice Kavanaugh did not bring a libel suit against the book’s author. If he had, however, a crucial threshold issue—preceding questions of falsity and intent—would have been whether the memoir’s portrayal of “O’Kavanaugh” amounted to a false depiction of Kavanaugh himself. In the parlance of defamation doctrine, Justice Kavanaugh would have …
Partisipasi Perempuan Dalam Proses Pengambilan Keputusan Di Dewan Adat Terkait Dengan Penyelesaian Kasus-Kasus Kekerasan Terhadap Perempuan: Kisah Dari Atambua, Sumba Timur, Rote Dan Labuan Bajo, Lidwina Inge Nurtjahyo
Partisipasi Perempuan Dalam Proses Pengambilan Keputusan Di Dewan Adat Terkait Dengan Penyelesaian Kasus-Kasus Kekerasan Terhadap Perempuan: Kisah Dari Atambua, Sumba Timur, Rote Dan Labuan Bajo, Lidwina Inge Nurtjahyo
Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan
Based on Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, especially in Articles 2c, 5a, 7b and c, 15 (1) and (2) women and men are equal. If there are any discriminations, the states which have ratified the Convention shall eliminate the discriminations from rules or tradition or practices. Women in some indigenous communities have some limitation in decision making process, even in the process to get solution in violence aghaainst women cases. For examples in Rote, Labuan Bajo, East Sumba and Atambua (East Nusa Tenggara) women have limited access to the decision-making process in indigenous forums even in cases of …
Pencemaran Nama Baik Dan Penghinaan Melalui Media Teknologi Informasi Komunikasi Di Indonesia Pasca Amandemen Uu Ite, Anton Hendrik Samudra
Pencemaran Nama Baik Dan Penghinaan Melalui Media Teknologi Informasi Komunikasi Di Indonesia Pasca Amandemen Uu Ite, Anton Hendrik Samudra
Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan
The amendment of the ITE Law is conducted to provide better legal certainty. This is an effort to respond to society development and aims to provide better legal protection and justice. The implementation of freedom of expression in the media of Information Communication Technology (ICT) affecting the number of defamation. With the amendment of ITE law, it is necessary to examine the nature of defamation offense and libel through ICT media.
The Online Defamation Dilemma: Adapting An Age-Old Doctrine To The Reality, Elizabeth Elving
The Online Defamation Dilemma: Adapting An Age-Old Doctrine To The Reality, Elizabeth Elving
Marquette Law Review
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