UC Irvine law students Shan Wen and Leon He helped write a fantastic motion to dismiss the City of LA’s dangerous lawsuit seeking unconstitutional prior restraint to stop our client, the super creative and smart visual journalist bencamach0.bsky.social, from publishing photos of LAPD cops.

FILED: anti-SLAPP motion against the city of LA for attempting to silence and intimidate me. Full motion here: 1drv.ms/b/s!AulPP9t9hD…

News Conference: Rep. Hank Johnson and Congressman Jamaal Bowman re-introduce the RAP Act, Restoring Artistic Protect. Media are asked to RSVP to [email protected]. House Triangle at 2:00 pm.

.Rep. Hank Johnson at a presser on the RAP ACT, legislation he is re-introducing that would prevent artists’ lyrics from being used against them in criminal trials. The YSL trial underway in Atlanta is a real world example of why he says it’s needed.

The Restoring Artistic Protection Act is again before Congress. #rapontrial

Thanks to my co-lead Congressman Jamaal Bowman & GRAMMYS SAG-AFTRA Music Artists Coalition Black Music Action Coalition @prophet5050 for their support of #RAPAct as we work to advance the protections in this bill to ensure all artists can create freely without fear of their work being criminalized.

.Rep. Hank Johnson and Congressman Jamaal Bowman want to protect artists from the wrongful use of their lyrics against them in criminal and civil proceedings p4k.in/cDdHxP6

Chaired by UCI Law Prof. Carrie Hempel, AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, “Hope as a Discipline,” features several preeminent UCI Law clinical faculty, including Sameer Ashar, Annie Lai, Jane Stoever + Katie Tinto. View their sessions: 👉bit.ly/3V9sRTT

RAP Act, a Bill to Ban Use of Lyrics as Court Evidence, Reintroduced to Congress | Pitchfork pitchfork.com/news/rap-act-a…

UCI Law Adjunct Prof. Susan E. Seager, head of the Press Freedom Project, comments on the LA County, LA County Sheriffs settlement with LAist reporter Josie Huang, calling it a "huge win" but was skeptical that the re-training reforms would have a lasting impact. laist.com/news/criminal-…

UCI Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology Clinic has submitted an amicus brief on behalf of Kartemquin and the IDA challenging the constitutionality of prohibiting the breaking of encryption on digital media covered by fair use. #fairuse bit.ly/3uRsvYU

Big news! Today we released the Second Edition of the Rap on Trial Legal Guide, co-authored by Jack Lerner, @cekubrin and students in our clinic! Over 30 pages of new content—from new legislation to implicit bias, ghostwriting in rap, and more! #rapontrial news.uci.edu/2024/01/23/uc-…

If you really believe in the importance of journalism, you’ll drop your 2 lawsuits against Ben Camacho, a freelance reporter who did nothing but receive and publish photos that your office gave him & stop lobbying the legislature to make public employee identities secret.

Yesterday scholars from around the world came to UC Irvine School of Law to celebrate the scholarship and impact of Dan Burk. A big thanks to Mark Lemley and Tony Reese who organized the day-long event.

Alumni news: Hearing that Betty Kim ‘21 (Greenberg Traurig LLP), Kristie Kang ‘22 (Kirkland & Ellis) and Robyn Lin ‘21 (@troutmanpepper) are on the 2024 Board of the Asian Pacific American Women Lawyers Alliance. Congrats all! #alumnileadership #alumniexcellence

.Janice Hahn do you also stand with bencamach0.bsky.social, who is currently being sued by L.A. City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto in a public records case that could have dangerous repercussions for *all* journalists?

June 5, 1 pm ET: From Bylines to Behind Bars: Journalists arrested covering protests The Space will feature NPPA’s Mickey Osterreicher and UC Irvine IP, Arts, and Tech Clinic’s Susan E. Seager, and moderated by Freedom of the Press’s Caitlin Vogus. x.com/i/spaces/1OwxW…

Immense gratitude for Susan E. Seager at UC Irvine IP, Arts, and Tech Clinic, Dan Stormer and Colleen Flynn who defended against this lawsuit from day 1.

City of Los Angeles agrees to dismiss its doomed “claw back” lawsuit against our ⁦UC Irvine IP, Arts, and Tech Clinic⁩ client, journalist Ben Camacho (⁦bencamach0.bsky.social⁩), who rightfully refused to return 9,000 LAPD cop photos that he lawfully obtained from the City! latimes.com/california/sto…