Comments on: Citizen journalists win one v. Apple http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/26/citizen-journalists-win-one-v-apple/ by Jeff Jarvis Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:47:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » A blogger behind bars http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/26/citizen-journalists-win-one-v-apple/#comment-101681 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » A blogger behind bars Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:20:55 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/05/26/citizen-journalists-win-one-v-apple/#comment-101681 [...] California does have a shield law that provides such protections to journalists - though debate is starting about who is a journalist. This was a crucial point in a recent case Apple opened against bloggers who’d scooped the company’s plans. The company dropped its complaint after an appeals judge ruled that bloggers do not “differ from a reporter or editor for a traditional business-oriented periodical”. The court said: “We decline the implicit invitation to embroil ourselves in questions of what constitutes ‘legitimate journalism.’ The shield law is intended to protect the gathering and dissemination of news, and that is what petitioners did here.” [...] [...] California does have a shield law that provides such protections to journalists - though debate is starting about who is a journalist. This was a crucial point in a recent case Apple opened against bloggers who’d scooped the company’s plans. The company dropped its complaint after an appeals judge ruled that bloggers do not “differ from a reporter or editor for a traditional business-oriented periodical”. The court said: “We decline the implicit invitation to embroil ourselves in questions of what constitutes ‘legitimate journalism.’ The shield law is intended to protect the gathering and dissemination of news, and that is what petitioners did here.” [...]

]]> By: Rube http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/26/citizen-journalists-win-one-v-apple/#comment-58581 Rube Mon, 29 May 2006 15:12:52 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/05/26/citizen-journalists-win-one-v-apple/#comment-58581 So now anybody with a blog can post a company's confidential papers online and not have to worry about getting sued? That's insane. This isn't about press freedom: This is about industrial espionage. Thanks to this ruling, anybody who wants can copy documents clearly labeled "confidential", like the Apple documents, and post them on their blog without worry of repercussions. Why journalists, and now the pajamahideen, get away with this kind of crap is beyond me. So now anybody with a blog can post a company’s confidential papers online and not have to worry about getting sued? That’s insane.

This isn’t about press freedom: This is about industrial espionage. Thanks to this ruling, anybody who wants can copy documents clearly labeled “confidential”, like the Apple documents, and post them on their blog without worry of repercussions.

Why journalists, and now the pajamahideen, get away with this kind of crap is beyond me.

]]> By: ruth http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/26/citizen-journalists-win-one-v-apple/#comment-56831 ruth Sat, 27 May 2006 11:33:49 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/05/26/citizen-journalists-win-one-v-apple/#comment-56831 Truth protected? What an amazing concept. It's good to have a court declare that the public has a right to knowledge which is imparted very well by having access to original materials. Memos in the Lay-Skilling case showed what Enron's treatment of public interest was, that they were published serves those in the position of making decisions in energy transmission, as just one instance of when news should be available. Truth protected? What an amazing concept. It’s good to have a court declare that the public has a right to knowledge which is imparted very well by having access to original materials.

Memos in the Lay-Skilling case showed what Enron’s treatment of public interest was, that they were published serves those in the position of making decisions in energy transmission, as just one instance of when news should be available.

]]> By: Mahmood’s Den · Citizen Journalists win against Apple, Bahrain MoI are you listening? http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/26/citizen-journalists-win-one-v-apple/#comment-56771 Mahmood’s Den · Citizen Journalists win against Apple, Bahrain MoI are you listening? Sat, 27 May 2006 08:49:50 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/05/26/citizen-journalists-win-one-v-apple/#comment-56771 [...] The online journalists are thus entitled to the protections provided under California’s shield law as well as the privacy protections for e-mails allowed under federal law, the court ruled. AP Hat tip: BuzzMachine 140 days left to BOOT this parliament OUT! [...] [...] The online journalists are thus entitled to the protections provided under California’s shield law as well as the privacy protections for e-mails allowed under federal law, the court ruled. AP Hat tip: BuzzMachine 140 days left to BOOT this parliament OUT! [...]

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