Go ahead and spill your secrets to us bloggers. Apple won't sue
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Our Merc colleague John Boudreau has the story. In a court filing this week, Apple said it would not challenge a landmark ruling by the San Jose-based 6th District Court of Appeals in May that extended First Amendment protections to online publications, specifically PowerPage and AppleInsider. The Cupertino company had sought to compel the bloggers to expose their sources.
We at SiliconBeat consider ourselves journalists by day, and also bloggers (on this site) by night. We are fortunate to have journalist status. This decision helps all the other bloggers out there that we rely on and link to. This decision, hopefully, will let you tip us and others off to developments with comfort you will not end up behind bars.
http://www.siliconbeat.com/cgi-bin/mt331/mt-tb.cgi/1587
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One can not help but wonder how the elderly U.S. Supreme Court would have decided if, in theory, this had been accepted in order to establish New Case Law.
here is an interesting excerpt:
In it 69-page decision, the appeals court concluded that bloggers and Web publications enjoy the same protections against revealing confidential sources as do traditional media sources, such as newspapers and broadcasters
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