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Two sugar-cane plantation owners from the Dominican Republic must satisfy a higher standard reserved for public figures if they are to prevail in a libel suit against American filmmakers who made a documentary critical of the Caribbean nation's sugar industry, a federal court of appeals has ruled.
As International Right to Know day is celebrated around the world on Sept. 28, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press takes this opportunity to note the importance of preserving — and for some nations, acquiring — the right to access government information and attend government meetings is crucial to any participatory democracy.
The Senate on Monday voted unanimously to approve a bipartisan bill that will protect journalists and authors from libel lawsuits filed overseas.
The Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act, known as the SPEECH Act, was co-sponsored by Senators Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. It will now be sent to the House of Representatives for consideration.
The Obama Justice Department has decided to continue the Bush administration's quest to compel a New York Times reporter to testify about confidential sources in a book he published about the CIA, The New York Times reported.
One of Germany's highest appellate courts this month ruled that the country’s courts have long-arm jurisdiction over an American author and newspaper because the article was viewed on the Internet in Germany.
A group of Google lawyers and executives are facing criminal prosecution in Italy for not immediately removing from their Italian Web site a video depicting a group of teenagers teasing a boy with Downs syndrome.
In a reversal, the State Department has decided to go ahead and renew the U.S. visas of two New York-based Cuban journalists, after denying them initially, Reporters Sans Frontières reported.
Tomas Anael Granados Jimenez and Ilsa Rodriguez Santana, accredited reporters who have covered the United Nations since 2005 for the Prensa Latina news agency in Havana, were vacationing in Cuba when they were told their visas would not be renewed.
The Canadian Supreme Court is delving into fraught journalistic territory, agreeing this week to hear a case that centers on the compelled disclosure of confidential news sources, according to The (Toronto) Globe and Mail.
