MFIA Amicus in Illinois First Amendment case- with EFF

The Media Freedom and Information Practicum is proud to announce that, along with EFF, it has filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Illinois Court of Appeals to block the unmasking of an anonymous online critic of a local political candidate in the comments section of a local newspaper’s website. Battle Over Message Board Flame War [...]

Misguided Legal Theories? Come on, AP.

We ought to pay close attention to the unfolding imbroglio over proprietary news content, spearheaded by the AP’s recent initiative to rein in the reproduction of AP-produced content in search engines and the blogosphere. Though this unfolds chiefly against the backdrop of an industry in crisis, the longstanding implications may be most interesting from an [...]