This report provides information on treasury's estimates of its costs to process discrimination claim payments and CDA payments in fiscal year 2003 and its costs to process and seek reimbursement for claim payments under lawsuits covered by the No FEAR Act beginning in fiscal year 2004, differences in claims processing...
According to the Communications Decency Act of 1996, a provider of an interactive computer service cannot be held liable for publishing a defamatory statement made by another party. In addition, the service provider cannot be held liable for refusing to remove the statement from its service. This article postulates that...
After the Gucci America v. Hall Associates case in 2001, the contributory trademark infringement with regard to Internet Service Providers ISPs has come up for discussion. In that case, the US district court for the Southern District of New York held that the Communications Decency Act CDA did not grant...
Clinton Fein currently exhibits horrifying high-resolution C-prints depicting through carefully staged reenactments the torture of prisoners by the American military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. For some time Fein's political images have been immersed in controversy and dissent. A native of South Africa, he left that country, with its...
I. Introduction Over the past decade, legislators and industry players have undertaken valiant efforts to employ technology to remedy a problem that technology has created-the increased availability to minors of sexually-themed content on the Internet. Legislative efforts to restrict minors' access to such content have relied on two types...
Summary * Fair Housing Council v. Roomates.com, LLC was the first case to establish a Web site can be held liable for user postings. * This case unhinged liability protections previously included in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Communications Decency Act. *...
KasperskyLab , a leading developer of Internet threat management solutions thatprotect against viruses, spyware, hackers and spam, today announced theUnited States District Court for the Western District of Washington ruledin favor of Kaspersky Lab, granting immunity from liability in the casebrought by online media company Zango. Zango sued Kaspersky Lab...
On March 30, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers rejected a proposal by ICM Registry Inc. for a ".xxx" domain for Web addresses. If the proposal had passed, it would have let providers of adult entertainment sites voluntarily register with the new domain, making it easier for families...
THE federal government has a compelling interest in combating the social cancer of pedophilia and in shielding children from indecency. But a pair of recent court cases illustrate how Congress' zeal to fight these battles has led it to restrict legal speech and overlook more effective ways to fight the...
The Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law v. Craigslist 2006 WL 3307439 (N.D. Ill. Nov. 14, 2006) case, reported in detail in the April 2006 issue of UNITS magazine, has been dismissed. Plaintiff the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under...
Bloggers and website owners cannot be sued for posting libelous or defamatory comments written by third parties, the California Supreme Court has ruled. The court said only the original authors of comments published online can be sued. Legal analysts say the 34-page decision, issued Monday, is significant because it brings...
June 15, 2006 Thank you all. Please be seated. Thank you all for coming. In a few moments, I will sign the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act. This is a good bipartisan bill. It's going to help American parents by making broadcast television and radio more family-friendly. ...
WASHINGTON, June 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a transcriptof remarks made today by the President at the signing of theBroadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005: Dwight Eisenhower Executive Office Building 11:07 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. Thank you...
WASHINGTON -- Congress gave notice to broadcasters Wednesday that they will pay dearly for crossing the line with offensive material like Janet Jackson's 2004 Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction," passing legislation that would multiply indecency fines 10 times. The 379-35 House vote on the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act...
Byline: Dan Caterinicchia, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The House overwhelmingly approved a bill yesterday that would increase to $325,000 the amount the Federal Communications Commission can fine broadcasters for indecency violations. The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act, approved 379-35, represents a tenfold increase...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Congress gave final approval to a law that would impose a tenfold increase in fines that can be levied against broadcasters which air "indecent" material. President George W. Bush praised the bill's passage and said he would sign it into law. ...
Washington-- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) last Tuesday signaled that he's ready to bring to the Senate floor a fine-laden House-passed bill on broadcast indecency, a Senate official said. The legislation, passed by the House last January on a 389-38 vote, would raise...
SEOUL, March 1 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING QUOTES) South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun on Wednesday implicitly criticized moves in Japan to amend its pacifist Constitution, saying Japan's hope of becoming a ''ordinary country'' need not entail a buildup of military power. ...
Most Canadians were not even aware of the court cases of two Montreal sex club owners before being blindsided once again by the Supreme Court. This time it was a unilateral legalization of common bawdy houses issued on December 21, 2005. In the process of approving ...
INTERNET FREE SPEECH Sections within this essay: Background Radio, Television, and the Internet The Communications Decency Act of 1996 Reno v. ACLU The Child Online Protection Act Filters The Children's Internet Protection Act The Yahoo! Case Anonymity Additional Resources Background In the United States,...
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