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Archive for November, 2007
§BILAL HUSSEIN
A photographer working for the Associated Press in Fallujah has been incarcerated for nineteen months by the United States military without charge or public hearing. More can be read here and here. Major Gen. Jack Gardner first offered the reasoning that Hussein was
“afforded access to insurgent activities [...]
Terms: Bilal Hussein, Embedded Reporting, Iraq, Journalism, Media law
§NEW PANTS, SAME HIPS
An equivalent to a Federal Shield Law has passed in the HOR and is on its way to the Senate. You can track and read the bill here.
The only considerable difference between this bill and the 2006 FFOIA is the new definition of journalism. No longer does a reporter require an affiliation [...]
Terms: Grand Juries, H. R. 2102, josh wolf, Journalism, Plame, reporter's privilege, Shield Law, Wilson
§WAR OF THE AMATEURS
War’s on.
An interesting, narrow, and ideological synopsis of a convoluted controversy. Intellectual property rights are taken for granted by most people who without thinking accept that they have to pay inflated prices for music, movies, or books. They pay prices established not by the artist, production crew, or author, but by the publishing [...]
Terms: Andrew Keen, Copyright, Intellectual property, Jonathan Lethem, Lawrence Lessig, oil21, Piracy
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