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Author Archives: jt.townend
Media law mop up: Social media copyright wars; riot reporting; PCC’s future
Hello. A fortnight’s worth of links for you, below. Me, myself and Meeja Law will be taking a digital break until mid-September. Until then, you can follow media law news via @medialawUK on Twitter or via this RSS feed. This … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, courts, data, digital open justice, events, media ethics, media law, media law mop-up, police, privacy, Promotions, reporting restrictions Tagged big issue foundation, daily mail, ibc legal, phone hacking, pigs on the wing, protecting the media, social media, wonderland blog Leave a comment
Media law mop up: Parliamentary satire; super injunction data; Morgan and Mills
It may be August, but there’s still lots of serious media law news to digest. And also some sillier stuff. Like English parliamentary rules. A send-up by the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart was banned from broadcast in the UK because … Continue reading
Recent changes to Justice.gov.uk; plans to improve search and content
Earlier this week I reported on how courts data is handled by HM Courts and Tribunals Service, with details of the contracts between the MoJ, Courtel and Bailii. When I was researching the issue in June I asked the Ministry … Continue reading
Posted in courts, data, digital open justice Tagged bailii, courtel, hm courts, hmcts, ministry of justice Leave a comment
Operation Motorman and its relevance to phone hacking fiasco
The Information Commissioner’s Operation Motorman and the subsequent reports, ‘What Price Privacy?’ and ‘What Price Privacy Now?’ are back in the news today despite being published in 2006. Why? Well, five years later, the BBC reports that police have asked … Continue reading
Media law mop up: Andy Hayman – ‘Good god! Absolutely not. I can’t believe you suggested that’
Another week consumed by phone hacking speculation and news. It’s very odd to see the story dominate the television and print headlines, when so many key developments were ignored by the majority of media outlets during 2009/10. Policeman turned columnist … Continue reading
Posted in defamation, media law, media law mop-up, police, press freedom, super injunctions Tagged phone hacking, piers morgan, rupert murdoch 1 Comment
Hyperlocal: the regulatory and legal challenges
Damian Radcliffe, nations and communities manager at Ofcom, has conducted some very useful research into hyperlocal definitions and trends, available on Slideshare: While independent news sites fall outside the Ofcom regulatory framework, he explained why local news consumption patterns matter … Continue reading
Posted in academic research, blogging, hyperlocal publishing Tagged damian radcliffe, hyperlocal, ofcom, se1, simon hughes mp Leave a comment
Media law mop up: Phone hacking – what else?
In July 2009 Nick Davies of the Guardian began to report new allegations of phone hacking at News of the World. Voicemail interception by the Sunday red-top wasn’t a new story, but these specific allegations were – despite the Press … Continue reading
News of the World to close but the phone hacking story doesn’t stop here
In the most dramatic development of the phone hacking scandal, since Guardian journalist Nick Davies broke his Gordon Taylor story in July 2009, it has been announced that News of the World is to close this Sunday after 168 years … Continue reading
Posted in media ethics, Media regulation, newspapers Tagged news of the world, nick davies, phone hacking Leave a comment
Who holds our courts data? FoIs reveal HM Courts’ exclusive contracts
Courts data is public, right? Well no, not quite. Hearings and judgments might be public, but information about them can be difficult to access. The HM Courts and Tribunals service does publish daily case listings for many courts here, on … Continue reading →