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California’s Proposed Fix to the Journalism Crisis Is Unconstitutional and Worse Than Socialism (Comments on the California Journalism Protection Act, CJPA)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

California’s latest entry into this Internet death-spiral is the California Journalism Protection Act (CJPA, AB 886). The CJPA engages with a critical problem in our society: how to ensure the production of socially valuable journalism in the face of the Internet’s changes to journalists’ business models?

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Third Circuit follows Second in protecting medical journals against trade libel claims

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24, 2023) Courts in particular kinds of false advertising cases say that scientific claims are not falsifiable, even as the majority of workaday false advertising claims involving scientific fact are (correctly) treated as falsifiable. American Soc’y of Anesthesiologists, Inc., 4th -, 2023 WL 2621131, No. 22-1411 (3d Cir.

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University Dean Cleared in Plagiarism Probe

Plagiarism Today

In October 2021, Andrew Azzopardi and a student he was mentoring, Andrew Camilleri, published a literature review entitled Risk and Protective Factors in Violent Youth Crime in the first edition of the journal Studies in Social Well-being. . This includes allegations of plagiarism and data manipulation.

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The Importance of Transparency in Research Integrity

Plagiarism Today

Earlier this week, the journal BMC Medicine announced that it will not retract a controversial 2013 paper authored by botanist Steven Newmaster. Instead, the journal has added a new editor’s note that says indicates “no further editorial action is needed at this point”. . It was then that a formal investigation began.

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3 Count: Oof… Again

Plagiarism Today

Next up today, Amos Robi at Pule reports that, in Kenya, musician Hubert Mbuku Nakitare (Nonini) has accused a local media influencer of unlawfully using one of his song as part of an advertisement for an electronics manufacturer. According to Nonini, Mutinda used a clip from his song We Kamu in the video.

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Guide for influencer advertisement

Olartemoure Blog

On August 21, 2023, the Advertising Guide for Influencers of the Federal Consumer Protection Agency (PROFECO) was published in the Official Journal of the Federation (DOF). Among the suggestions in the guide are: E Advertising must be clear, truthful and without misleading information.

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Journalism about investment isn't commercial speech

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13, 2021) Competing in the marketplace of ideas can ground a defamation claim, but not a false advertising claim. Crash Proof Retirement, LLC v. Price, 2021 WL 1387501, No. 2:20-cv-05906-JDW (E.D.