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-city ordinance said women at gentleman's clubs can only strip down to g.string and pasties
-dancers said first amendment right to get naked
-supreme court upheld zoning law said not first amendment right |
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| North Shore Vs City of Duluth |
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-opened as a strip club
-zoning laws prohibited from certain footage of a park
-made agreement with city to stay open
-zoning laws typically upheld at all levels of court |
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-Only music group to be declared obscene
-record shop owners arrested for selling album
-on appeal failed miller test
-music is offensive but not obscene |
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-Mapplethorpe categories as a homo erotic photographer
-was gay didn't hide it
-was dieing from aids and Cincinnati museum displayed art exhibit
-DEA sued museum for displaying obscene images
-miller test applied declared not obscene
to be considered obscene all work must be deemed obscene ( he had some worthwhile images) |
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| Music industry advisories |
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-people were demanding censorship of music
-music industry decided we better do something before congress censors us
-music industry self regulates with addition of advisory label |
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| Child online protection act |
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-congress failed attempt at censorship
-require adult sites to require credit cart of id because you must be of age if you own one of those |
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| Childrens internet protection act |
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-rewrote COPA to place filters on computers in public places
-filters not required on adult only computers |
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| allowed for parents to censor their children |
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-oracle convinced jury SAP copied software
-SAP had to pay billions of dollars
-be wary when mimicking software |
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-Brainerd download girl
-copyright infringement
-1.4 million dollar fine
-music industry scare others |
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| Sony Vs Universal Studios |
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-tv viewers ability to record TV
-TV feared loss of income
-supreme court ruled for the people because it is not commercial use and no financial gain would come out of it
-allows present day DVR
-can't duplicate sell of give away a copy |
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| Communication Decency Act |
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-made it a crime to distribute indecent material.
-rejected for being vague and limiting adult internet users |
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Threw out CDA
-adults can look at adult material |
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| Virginia St. board of Pharmacy Vs Virginia citizens consumer council |
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| -supreme court ruled law prohibiting advertisements of pharmaceutical prices illegal |
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-Ads have first amendment rights but can't advertise falsities or lie about products
-can not regulate all advertising
-investigate reports of
*false advertising
*proposed illegal transactions (pyramid ponzi) |
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| Federal Communications act |
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change from FRC to FCC
-now regulate radio plus phone, telegraph and tv(post ww2)
-radio popularity growing rapidly |
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| FCC Vs Pacifica foundation |
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Radio played seven words you cant say on TV
-listener thought radio disobeyed FCC decency laws and filed complaint
-put a warning on stations file (slap on the wrist) |
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-pole leaders of community to find out major issues
-submit survey with license then document/show how you helped
-real headache for small stations |
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acts as a watch dog for community
-lots of content regulation on radios |
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requirement of FCC to broadcast all significant view points
-faded away |
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-Regan elected and deregulation
-If public likes programming you will be listened to if not you will fail |
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-developed so tv companies could stay in control of censorship
-displayed before program begins |
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-cross media ownership is permissible
-didn't use to be |
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| -can't own all media outlets |
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| deregulation until super ball boob then huge fines |
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| -10pm to 6Am is a safe time where regulation is not as strict |
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-NBC/Comcast
-all networks owned by other corporations
-at one point self owned
-increasing mergers of media entities
-increased likely hood of monopolies |
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-Borrowed from Great Britten
-a work is obscene if corrupts the minds of those who might find it
-if any part of a work is obscene all is obscene
-obscene for child obscene for all
-abandoned because adults could only watch what was fit for a child |
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| -if a work has social value it cannot be deemed obscene |
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-can have 2 standards of obscenity
-adult and minor |
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not protected by first amendment
-can be nude pictures
-children can be charged as child pornographers |
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| abandon hicklin rule because it allows adults to only watch what is fit for children |
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-movie deemed patently offensive
-can only be patently offensive if hardcore porn
-appeal said lower court misread miller test |
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second part of miller test
-dealing with offensive sex |
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-all nude images banned of minors
-modified rule only nude images of minor with a focus on genitals can be banned |
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| child pornography protection act |
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aimed at fighting organized crime
-government can seize money earned by crime
-just have to prove pattern of illegal activities |
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| rejects argument of prior restraint of unconstitutional censorship for RICO |
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-for candidates for federal office
-can not deny access for reasonable amounts of advertising space.
-if routinely break rule license revocable |
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| broadcasting station must provide equal time/cost/opportunity to all candidates for the same office |
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Require cable operates to carry local channels
-often challenged as content regulations |
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-determined commercial language had a degree of first amendment protection
-stressed advertising is subject to reasonable regulation |
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Place limits on commercials of shows aimed at children under 12
-length, time gaps, in show advertisements |
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| -right of the public to have access to social, political, moral ideas |
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| balance creator's right to compensation with public interest |
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| body of law which protects those who create intangible property |
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| Protect trade secrets of inventors/designers by giving them a 20 year monopoly on invention |
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| stop confusion in the market place by clearly identifying the creator |
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-one can not buy the copyright license of a work to prohibit its use
-contrary to public interest |
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-take over the world by buying everything
-make his tracks to hard to follow (hide foreign ownership
-blackmail FCC
-spend money to win
-overthrow government with news presence
-hire spin doctors
-buy government |
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