Media Ethics/Media Law

Numerous law and ethics cases involving the media have happened in 2009 and 2010 (I assume we can talk about 2010 also) are worth noting. Six of them go as follows:

• Censorship - July 2010 - Google ended a standoff with China over censorship that ended with Google accepting Chinese users being redirected to the Google page of Hong Kong.
• Libel - January 2009 - A New York model, Liskula Shanks, sued Google in an attempt to find who was responsible for libelous statements said about her on the internet.
• Intrusion - May 2009 - Farah Fawcett speaks out about the media intruding on her life regarding her coming out about her cancer diagnosis.
• Copyright - November 2010 - The German company SAP was sued by Oracle over a copyright case where SAP was argued to have used Oracle's copyrighted software, costing SAP as much as $4 billion.
• FCC - April 2010 - The FCC loses a case to Comcast, where it was decided that the FCC doesn't have the authority to require equal treatment of broadbast users over internet trafficking.
• Misappropriation - July 2010 - Misappropriation lawsuit against the New York restaurant empire of Mario Batali and Joseph Bastianich.