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Articles by Jeffrey Hermes

Jeffrey Hermes is director of the Citizen Media Law Project and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1997. Prior to joining the Berkman Center, Jeff assisted a wide array of clients in First Amendment, media, intellectual property and Internet law issues as a partner in the litigation practice of Brown Rudnick LLP and later as counsel to Hermes, Netburn, O’Connor & Spearing, P.C. in Boston. Over the last fourteen years, Jeff has represented an international media network and its subsidiaries, major metropolitan newspapers, local broadcasters on television and radio, Internet-based publishers and social media networks.

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May 2, 2013

When the media — traditional or new — gets a suspect wrong, what are the legal ramifications?

From Lockerbie to Richard Jewell to anthrax: The Boston Marathon bombings were far from the first incident to spark inaccurate reporting about an alleged suspect. Here’s what the case law tells us about liability.

January 24, 2013

A court case against those skeezy mugshot websites raises First Amendment issues

In going after mugshot sites, a plaintiff in Toledo is seeking to make the right of publicity extend to non-endorsement uses of people’s images.

A reason for optimism in the IRS’ handling of nonprofit news orgs

The San Francisco Public Press has finally, after 32 months, been granted 501(c)(3) status — a positive sign for its peers still waiting.

July 9, 2012

Falsity and the First Amendment: Implications of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Stolen Valor

The director of the Citizen Media Law Project says the decision puts a dent in a common claim of those seeking defamation suits.