Most of my research focuses on the conflicts that arise between First Amendment values and other important constitutional principles such as intellectual property rights and the Sixth Amendment rights of criminal defendants. I am the co-author of Mass Communication Law in Pennsylvania (New Forums Press, 2003) and of the RTNDA project "Hidden Cameras, Hidden Microphones: At the Crossroads of Journalism, Ethics and the Law" (1998).
Recent publications
"Transforming fair use online: The Ninth Circuit's productive-use analysis of visual search engines." Communication Law & Policy 14:153-176 (Spring 2009).
"Preserving the copyright balance: Statutory and constitutional preemption of contract-based claims," in Communication Law & Policy 11:83-132 (Winter 2006)
"Cyberspace as place and the limits of metaphor," in Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 11:10-18 (Spring 2005)
Recent conference papers"The Right of Publicity and Newsworthiness: An End to Judicial Deference?" Paper presented at the annual Conference on Intellectual Property, Iona College, New Rochelle, N.Y. (2010).
"The Foo Fighters battle McCain: Copyright, fair use and the moral rights of musical artists." Paper presented at the annual conference of the Broadcast Education Association, Las Vegas, Nev. (2009).
"Politicians, publicity rights and political speech." Paper presented at the annual Conference on Intellectual Property, Iona College, New Rochelle, N.Y. (2009).
"Privacy on Facebook: A social networks theory analysis," at the conference on Convergence and Society: The Participatory Web, Columbia, S.C. (2008)
"Transforming Productive Use: The Ninth Circuit’s Fair Use Analysis of Visual Search Engines in Kelly and Perfect 10," at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, Ill. (2008)
"A right to Google: Search engines and copyright," at the annual convention of the International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany (2006) (Top 3 paper, Law and Policy division)