The Iowa Supreme Court overturned a 2010 ruling in which the lower court judge proclaimed “Author Solutions is not the New York Times.” In the legal sense, the two entities are now the same. The Iowa high court determined that internet publishers–even those that are paid for their services–qualify for free speech protection. Their definition of protected media now includes “any person or company that receives writings and makes them ‘more suitable and accessible for the public to read.'” As the Des Moines Register reports, “ASI and media companies had asked the court to strike down a legal doctrine known […]
