Express Observation (NCFA vs. Donaldson on Open Records)

National Council for Adoption denounces Evan B. Donaldson's call for open adoption records in unyielding report Link

Express Observation (Title IX and 1983)

Recent Supreme Court ruling holds that Title IX doesn't preclude Section 1983 action in school gender discrimination COA Link

Express Observation (Federalize International Adoption)

A federal solution to our international adoption child trafficking mess? This article examines the issues Link

Express Observation (Pedo-Polanski Whitewash)

Great piece on Salon.com called Whitewashing Roman Polanski on why pedo-Polanski should not be given leniency Link

A New Frontier for Victims of Child Pornography

Lest anyone think that all I do is sit around and pontificate all day, our law firm has actual clients with some groundbreaking issues. Yesterday, a federal judge in Bridgeport, Connecticut established a "new frontier" in favor of exploited children when he ordered a wealthy former Pfizer executive to pay about $200,000 to our client, a girl whose images the executive had obtained through the Internet from another collector of child pornography. The ruling, the first of its kind in the country, comes against Alan Hesketh, a man who downloaded, viewed and traded child pornography, but had no actual contact with any of the victims. Since October, ...

Fox News Gives us our Street Creds

Now that this round of the Facebook debate is over, it's time to take our bows and acknowledge our creds, aptly supplied by none other than Fox News. According to FoxNews.com reporter Jana Winter (who actually reads this blog): "Companies get into trouble when they try to move that content beyond the four corners of their service -- that's what Facebook tried to do -- and use content for commercial exploits," said James R. Marsh, a lawyer who writes ChildLaw Blog, which first posted news of Facebook's TOS change late last month. In the extreme, he said, "They can take little Susie's pictures on the beach to Playboy, who then has their own license ...

Facebook Fracas Finally for Real – NYT, Forbes, NPR joins Childlaw

Give us some props, you heard it here first. Facebook's controversial Terms of Use, revealed by ChildLaw on January 30th and discussed again on February 6, was headline news in today's New York Times, National Public Radio and Forbes, among many other media outlets. Apparently a blog called The Consumerist is getting all the credit for breaking this story, but we all know better. Childlaw had them all scooped by two weeks, even picking up on the recent TOU change on February 4, 2009. Apparently now Facebook continues to own your content even after you've deleted your account, died and gone to Heaven (or Hell - you know who you are). So, gentle ...

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