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Communications Forum

Luncheon Speaker

William T. Lake, Chief of the FCC's Media Bureau,
addresses a Communications Forum luncheon in
Washington on April 25. » Read More

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Issue Watch

New Rules on Labor Data Risk Market Turmoil: Sen. Blunt
» Read More

DOL Still Mum on Data Lockup Decision » Read More

FCC Votes To Post TV Station Political Files Online
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ATSC's Richer Named Chairman of Future of Broadcast Television Initiative » Read More

NRB: DeMint/Scalise Bill Could Be 'Fatal' To Religious Stations » Read More

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From The Thomas Jefferson Center…

The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression in Charlottesville, Va., has released this music-video parody to celebrate its 2012 "Jefferson Muzzles" for egregious affronts to freedom of expression. Enjoy this musical interlude! More about this year's "Muzzles" and their recipients is at tjcenter.org.

 
 

Media & Communications Policy Blog

Locking Up Reporters at the DOL
by Patrick Maines

If, like many people, you’re an investor, you are already familiar with the market-moving impact of government data, like the Department of Labor’s monthly payrolls and unemployment figures.  What you probably don’t know are the ways in which the DOL has for decades arranged for release of this information, or of their plans to change the procedure in July.  » Read More

Free Speech Is Real Loser
In Rush Kerfuffle

by Patrick Maines

Is it appropriate to defend free speech even when it’s harsh or degrading?  Whatever their political views, do people have a right to express them?  Not for the first time, such questions are being debated in the court of public opinion.  The proximate reason for the debate, this month, is some nasty things said about a law student by Rush Limbaugh….  
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Intellectual Property Issues

Judicial Regulation of Digital Copyright
Windfalls:
Making Interpretive and Policy
Sense of Viacom v. YouTube and UMG
Recordings v. Shelter Capital Partners

by Prof. Peter S. Menell,
University of California at Berkeley School of Law  

Nearly a decade after the emergence of user-generated content (UGC) websites, appellate courts finally rendered their interpretation of the applicability of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) safe harbor with respect to such entities during the past several months.  » Read More

Copyright Clause Trumps
Free Speech Clause

by Rodney A. Smolla, President, 
Furman University

The Supreme Court in Golan v. Holder upheld Section 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), which granted copyright protection to preexisting works of Berne Convention member countries, protected in their country of origin, but lacking protection in the United States….  » Read More

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