National Security
In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prior restraints were presumptively unconstitutional unless the government could prove irreparable harm.
What is New York Times v. United States?
This is the newsgathering tort.
What is intrusion into seclusion?
In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public officials had to prove actual malice to win a defamation case.
What is New York Times v. Sullivan?
In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the publication of excerpts of Ford's memoirs without permission was not a fair use.
What is Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises?
In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the indecent speech receives limited (or intermediate) First Amendment protection.
What is FCC v. Pacifica?
This is the law, passed after 9/11, that expanded the government's right to search library and financial records.
What is the Patriot Act?
This is the name of the EU law that protects information privacy.
What is the General Data Protection Regulation?
Before 1964, plaintiffs in the United States had to prove these elements to win a defamation case.
What are identification, publication, injury/harm?
This is the terms of protection for individually authored works in the U.S.
What is life of the author plus 70 years?
In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision of the Communications Decency Act that prohibited the transmission of indecent and obscene content.
What is Reno v. ACLU?
In this case, the court was asked to consider whether the government could prevent the publication of an article about the H-Bomb that was based on information from public sources.
What is U.S. v. The Progressive?
Newsworthiness is a defense to these two privacy torts.
What are publication of private facts and appropriation?
This is the definition of actual malice.
What is reckless disregard for the truth?
The Supreme Court ruled that parody could be a protected Fair Use in this case.
What is Campbell v. Acuff-Rose?
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act contains these two provisions that protect platforms engaged in content moderation.
What are the Immunity Provision and the Good Samaritan Provision?
This is the law under which recent presidential administrations have charged whistleblowers who leaked classified documents.
What is the Espionage Act?
These are the four privacy torts.
What are intrusion into seclusion, publication of private facts, false light and appropriation?
This is the best defense to defamation.
What is truth?
These two types of intellectual property are protected in the U.S. Constitution.
What are copyrights and patents?
What are 1) use of the scarce public airwaves and 2) pervasive presence that allows children to easily come into contact with it.
This is the Israeli-developed spyware that governments have deployed against journalists, attorneys and dissidents to surveil them.
What is Pegasus?
These four amendments make up the implicit right to privacy.
What are the First, Third, Fourth and Ninth?
What five elements must a plaintiff prove in 2026 to win a defamation case?
What are identification, publication, injury/harm, falsity and fault?
These are the six rights in the copyright bundle of rights.
What are reproduction, distribution, public performance, public display, derivative works and digital audio performance?
These are the three objectives of AI?
What are interpret data, learn from that data and achieve specific goals?