Media

A question for the legal minds out there:

If Congress forbade the purchase of a certain type of printing press, would that be considered an abridgement of the First Amendment?

If Congress required that publishers use only certain retail outlets, would that be considered an abridgement of the First Amendment?

8:12:12 PM #
categories: Law, Media

Goodnight, Dead Horse

Sometimes I'm not clear. I think this is because I use words with many meanings without further clarifying which meaning I intend. Often this is intentional, as with a double entendre, but other times it's merely stylistic, to match the flow of my thoughts.

In any case, by diverse media I didn't mean multiple television stations, each owned by a different party, but rather television, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet. I think collusion is rather obvious on television. And I don't think people engulf many different sources of information.

7:59:04 PM # Google It!
categories: Industry, Law, Media

LawMeme: "As a public service, LawMeme annotates Jack [Valenti]'s answers"

4:47:48 PM #
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Years in which copyright's term was set

1790
1831
1909
1962
1965
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1974
1976
1998

What stimulated the flurry of activity since 1962?

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EE Times: Broadband coalition targets 'last mile' regulations: The High Tech Broadband Coalition, representing the semiconductor, telecommunications, consumer electronics and software industries, said it would file a petition with the FCC. Members said the petition would urge the agency to review "unbundling" rules included in the 1996 Telecommunications Act. [via Tomalak's Realm]

The last two grafs discuss our friends in the content industry.

Copy protection "is not the issue in broadband deployment," [Gary Shapiro, chief executive of the CEA,] said.

1:55:02 PM #
categories: Industry, Media

Speaking of Television

I watched ABC's "The Court" in between commercials the other night. Looks good.

I wonder if this Court will grant cert for Eldred. ;-)

1:35:52 PM # Google It!
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