Last Friday, Cablevision filed a cert petition to the US Supreme Court in what may be the next Citizens United.Citizens United, of course, in President Obama’s words, “opened the floodgates” for corporate money to overwhelm the political system. Almost 70% of Americans believe it hands even more pow ...

Image by Getty Images via DaylifeFor The New York Times and other print journalism leviathans moving toward charging Web site visitors to view content, comes grim news from a Long Island daily's experiment with pay walls.Newsday, for which Dolan Media Co. paid $650 million, along with another $4 mil ...

Over the past few weeks, academics and lobbyists have been debating a First Amendment issue--namely, how the First Amendment applies to an Internet access rule called network neutrality (about the the rule, see here and here; about the First Amendment's application, see here and Jack Balkin's testim ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. (December 10, 2009) - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced today that 13 additional social networking sites, including those owned by Google, Yahoo!, and AOL, have agreed to remove New York sex offenders from their sites. This comes in the wake of the Attorney General’s announcemen ...

Source: Lexology, October 19, 2009. Cablevision copyright rulings finally final — buffer reproductions are not infringing copiesFenwick & West LLP"On June 29, 2009, the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari in the much-watched Cartoon Networks/Cablevision case, bringing to a close a ...

Image by Joe Shlabotnik via FlickrNewsday is being slammed for turning down an ad from the Tennis Channel that is highly critical of Cablevision, Newsday's parent.The ad, which appeared in The New York Times, New York Post, Bergen Record, and Westchester-Rockland Journal News calls out Cablevision ...

At long last the long suffering shareholders of  Cablevision will see Madison Square Garden, the Knicks and the Rangers depart from the Cablevision balance sheet and operating statement.  Cablevision announced last week the intent to spin off MSG into a stand-alone company.ARTICLEURLNow before all y ...

A recent United States Supreme Court order letting stand a decision that a proposed remote digital video recorder does not violate copyright law has major implications for internet “cloud computing” and advertisers, intellectual property lawyers say.

Happy Conclusion to Remote DVR Case I noted at the beginning of the month that the Solicitor General had advised the Supreme Court not to reconsider the important Second Circuit case giving the green light to Cablevision’s “remote storage digital video recorder” (RS-DVR). I’ ...

* Mission Accomplished? [CNN] * Doesn't "Velvet Revolution" sound like a musical band, instead of a collection of angry lawyers administering vigilante justice? [The Blog of the Legal Times] * Mayoral control of New York City schools could end tonight if the New York State Senate doesn't act. But ...