Beyond the Fairness Doctrine

We'll spend a good bit of time after the next exam talking about the Fairness Doctrine, because it is an issue in the upcoming election. Of course, we'll talk about it after the election is over.

California violent-video-game law faces showdown in federal appeals court

You know, when I started playing Doom in the early 1990s, I had no idea it would precede a great national effort to regulate violence in media.

False Light Struck Down in Florida

Tech initiative aims to protect privacy, free speech online

France to halt games when anthem is booed

Could this be protection of a "venerated symbol"?

Bush signs RIAA-backed intellectual-property law

We should discuss this in class Thursday.

More on Libel Tourism

Free Speech Is Not a Political Issue

I wouldn't necessarily agree with extending free speech rights to all private property (especially when my kids starting calling me names), but there's some interesting prior restraint history here.

Booing as Free Speech

Obama Sign In Yard Stirs Up Neighbors

Women's shelter cuts Bernhard after gang-rape line

Another celebrity silenced!

Again!

Autodesk has no trademark on DWG?

My brother, an ace at CAD, sent me this link regarding trademark.