High court judge: Data protection isn’t defamation substitute: “ Act does not have your back The Data Protection Act should not be a backup plan in failed defamation cases, a High Court judge has said….
ADD moves to ban Google sites for defaming Atatürk 13 April 2009, Monday, TODAY’S ZAMAN WITH WIRES, İSTANBUL The Atatürkist Thought Association (ADD) has moved to block access to Google Sites due to content it…
‘Ceaseless liability’ for internet libel is not a barrier to free speech, rules ECHR: “Publishers’ indefinite liability for defamatory material in their online archives is not a restriction on their rights to free speech, the…
European Journalism Centre: Times fails to overturn ‘internet publication rule’ in court case [European Court of Human Rights] Newspapers will continue to be sued multiple times over the same website story after the Times lost…
Google on trial over Italian ‘defamation’ vid: “ Execs face jail time for Turin teenagers’ taunt The Privacy Trial of the Century is already waving jail time at three current Google execs and its former…
Blogger can’t sue over comment, rules High Court: “ Didn’t like it, shoulda deleted it A man who was criticised in the comments section of his own blog cannot sue for defamation because he did…
Blogger who didn’t delete comment cannot sue over it, says High Court: “A man who was criticised in the comments section of his own blog cannot sue for defamation because he did not delete the…
Frank Fisher: Freedom of speech on the internet should be protected Out of context, it would be easy to dismiss culture secretary Andy Burnham’s attack on the ‘dangerous’ internet as just another junior minister grabbing…
Another interesting article from TechDirt… (Via Techdirt.) Singapore Fines The WSJ For Editorials It Considered Contempt Of Court: “The Wall Street Journal is running a story about how it’s been fined by Singaporean courts for…
Cyber-Rights.Org.TR » Internet: Restricted Access: Internet: Restricted Access: A Critical Assessment of Internet Content Regulation and Censorship in Turkey (Released on 25 November, 2008) By Dr. Yaman Akdeniz & Dr. Kerem Altıparmak Published with the…