Bloggers + Newspapers Unite Against Apple

Groups working to protect journalists’ press freedoms, the creator of a
blog-search tool, weblog publishers, and dozens of individual online
journalist/bloggers filed a friend-of-the-court brief (PDF) on April 11  in Apple v. Does
– the case in which Apple Computer is seeking to unmask online
journalists’ confidential sources for articles about forthcoming Apple
products.

Amici include

• Jack M. Balkin
• Julian Dibbell
• Feedster, Inc.
• The First Amendment Project
• A. Michael Froomkin
• Gawker Media, Inc.
• Gothamist,  LLC,
• Groklaw
• Happy Mutants, LLC
• Ben Hammersley
• Joichi Ito
• Joel Johnson
• Kimberly A. Kralowec
• LawMeme
• Rebecca MacKinnon
• Joshua Micah Marshall
• The Media Bloggers Association
• Markos Moulitsas
• Reporters Without Borders
• Glenn Harlan Reynolds
• Peter Rojas
• Jay Rosen
• Scott Rosenberg
• Doc Searls
• Silicon Valley Watcher
• Kevin Sites
• Eugene Volokh

Meanwhile, the BBC reports that eight US newspapers and the Associated Press agency have thrown their support behind three bloggers sued by Apple. The news organisations have now filed a court brief which says they should be allowed to protect their sources. If not, they said, it could make  journalists wary of publishing stories which are in the public interest. (PSFK just can’t work out which papers from the BBC article though).

EEF Site
BBC Article

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