Tag Archives: First Amendment

New York Times article discusses online speech due to cyberbullying cases

Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 by .

Tweet Online cyber bullying off-campus is challenging the balance of free speech online and in schools.  Administrators dealing with upset parents are put in positions of exploring disruptions at school caused by mocking YouTube videos and Facebook comments from teens in their critical years of social development.  Parents are seeking support from school administrators to [...]

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How the Federal CDA of 1996, Janet Reno and scholastic Prior Review are linked

Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by .

Tweet The 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA) was one of the first attempts by the government to regulate content on the Internet. It dealt specifically with pornographic material found online. The act was aimed at protecting minors from inappropriate, explicit online content. However, in the case Reno v. The American Civil Liberties Union (1997), many [...]

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You don’t need permission to run photos in your web news publication

Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by .

Tweet Do you need permission to run photographs in your print news publication? No? Then you don’t need it for online pictures either. Student journalists have every right to publish online photos they would otherwise use in their print publications. The fact that those pictures can be seen by a larger, potentially worldwide group is [...]

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Web and Print Legal guidelines are the same

Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by .

Tweet The law as it applies to scholastic news Web sites comes down to one guideline: The courts make no distinction between print publications and their online counterparts. So many shareholders will tell you the law is different, that somehow the rules are altered for Web publications. Those shareholders – administrators, community members, etc. – [...]

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