Len Witt, who heads the CSJ, mentions that there are a few student scholarships available to reduce costs to $14.99 instead of the full $69.

The . . . → Read More: Media Law in the Digital Age workshop Sept. 25]]> Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Center for Sustainable Journalism are hosting a one-day Media Law in the Digital Age workshop at Kennesaw State on Saturday, September 25

Len Witt, who heads the CSJ, mentions that there are a few student scholarships available to reduce costs to $14.99 instead of the full $69.

The digital age has provided a host of challenges to traditional legal concepts of privacy, libel, copyright, etc. This looks to be a good overview of the subject.

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Current TV will broadcast the debate live and overlay debate-related Twitter messages in near-real . . . → Read More: Hack the debate: Twitter plus current.tv]]> Image by Getty Images via DaylifeHere’s an interesting angle on the debate tonight at Belmont University in Nashville: Hack the Debate. I missed it the first two times around, but it might be easier to handle than CNN’s fever chart of undecided voters.

Current TV will broadcast the debate live and overlay debate-related Twitter messages in near-real time. For those TV-impaired folks like myself, the debate will also be broadcast on the Currentweb site.

In other debate-related news, both McCain and Obama have supported the release of video from the debate as public domain, available for remix and reuse, according to IP lawyer Lawrence Lessig. There still seems to be some question about whether the media will make the pool TV feed available, but claiming copyright over this type of thing is unAmerican. I could see CNN wanting to protect its rights over the fever chart idea, but the straight video feed shouldn’t be the property of any entity.

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Two UK students and the photo adviser for the Kentucky Kernel were arrested at the Republican National Convention Monday afternoon in St. Paul, Minn., on charges of felony rioting. They were photographing the protesting of the convention.Photographers Ed Matthews and Britney McIntosh and adviser Jim Winn were three of 286 people arrested as convention . . . → Read More: Kernel photogs, adviser arrested at RNC]]> This is ridiculous.

Two UK students and the photo adviser for the Kentucky Kernel were arrested at the Republican National Convention Monday afternoon in St. Paul, Minn., on charges of felony rioting. They were photographing the protesting of the convention.Photographers Ed Matthews and Britney McIntosh and adviser Jim Winn were three of 286 people arrested as convention protests escalated into riots Monday.

See also Carlos Miller’s coverage.

With all the media frenzy over GOP Candidate John McCain’s pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, images of police in riot gear dispersing protesters have been missing from the coverage of the RNC.

And the Kernel staffers weren’t the only journalists in the firing line. Amy Goodman, host of “Democracy Now!” was among other journalists arrested as well. Goodman’s arrest was captured and posted on YouTube.

If any of these journalists is convicted, you can pretty much tear up that Bill of Rights and that First Amendment thing we talk so much about.

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