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- CASINO CITY, INC. V U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CAMPUS ACCESS TO INTERNET GAMBLING AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT
- CASE DESCRIPTION
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Prodigy files lawsuit seeking first amendment protection for the Internet; Adds blue ribbon to Prodigy highlights screen to show web solidarity
- WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 26, 1996--Prodigy has filed a lawsuit challenging the Communications Decency Act signed into law by President Clinton February 8, 1996.
- Research articles 1996-02-26
- Music downloading and the First Amendment.(Law of the Line)
- Sony basic and 16 other record companies sued 40 unidentified, and apparently unknown, "Doe" defendants for copyright infringement associated with peer-to-peer file sharing of music over the Internet. Sony subpoenaed its Internet Service Pr Sony basic and 16 other record companies sued 40 unidentified, and ...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- A law that would protect children from "harmful" material on the Internet remains enjoined after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia agreed with a lower court last week that it violates the First Amendment.(Brief Articl
- "We will affirm the District Court's grant of a preliminary injunction because we are confident that the ACLU's attack on [the law's] constitutionality is likely to succeed on the merits," wrote Circuit Court Judge Leonard ... "We will affirm the District Court's grant of...
- Research articles 2000-06-26
- Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail, The Internet And The First Amendment: Another Free Speech Showdown In Cyberspace?
- This study examines and analyzes efforts to deal with unsolicited commercial e-mail or "spam." Using the Central Hudson test for commercial speech as a benchmark, various legislative proposals to address the spam problem are categorized and evaluated. With legal and technical solutions at hand, the author argues that source-based, content...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Content-Based Regulation of Electronic Media: Indecent Speech on the Internet
- The difficulty with indecency in the media is that while adults have a First Amendment right prohibiting laws from abridging their freedom of speech, the United States Supreme Court has acknowledged the government has a compelling interest in trying to protect minors from harmful speech. The Supreme Court has "long...
- White papers 2002-10-01
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- Glenn Beck Meets Internet, Loses [Victory]
- Maybe Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, and maybe he didn't. Wherever the truth lies, it's clear that the World Intellectual Property Organization has decided that he can't stop the internet from asking the question . Because he is an...
- News items 2009-11-09
- Playboy decision could protect ads; Ruling puts pressure on government to prove need for speech curbs.
- The Supreme Court's decision overturning a curb on the Playboy TV Network could have a significant impact on other attempts by the government to regulate content and advertising on TV and the Internet. First Amendment and advertising lawyers said l The Supreme Court's decision...
- Research articles 2000-05-29
- Regulating Internet Pornography Aimed at Children: A Comparative Constitutional Perspective on Passing the Camel Through the Needle's Eye
- I. INTRODUCTION The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is heralded domestically and abroad for protecting freedom of speech and thus promoting democracy, individual self-realization, and the search for truth. This assessment is well justified, especially when comparing the United States to authoritarian regimes. One scholar, however, has described...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- Aux armes, netizens!(censorship of the Internet)
- Congress has passed a telecommunications reform bill that prohibits 'indecent' material on the Internet, thereby violating rights granted by the First Amendment. The American Civil Liberties Union plans to test the constitutionality of this provision.February I will be remembered as Black Thursday on the Internet. Ignoring howls of protest...
- Research articles 1996-02-26
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 is proof Internet law still
- In the world of digital intellectual property, the law still struggles to keep up with Internet technology. Precedents continue to be set based on the interpretation of 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act, creating a face-off between copyright and First Amendment protections and raising questions about just how far these interpretations...
- Research articles 2003-08-29
- DMCA proof Internet law still evolving
- In the world of digital intellectual property, the law still struggles to keep up with Internet technology. Precedents continue to be set based on the interpretation of 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act, creating a face-off between copyright and First Amendment protections and raising questions about just how far these interpretations...
- Research articles 2003-08-29
- Contemporary community standards and the Internet. (Law of the Line).(Children's Online Privacy Protection Act)(Brief Article)
- Congress has tried to protect children from exposure to pornographic materials on the Internet. The recent mixed decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Ashcroft v. ACLU emphasized again how difficult the balance between this laudable goal and the First Amendment turns out to be. ...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Meddling With The Internet: Congress Tries Censorship Again With Cipa -
- With the U.S. Congress' second most recent attempt to censor the Internet with COPA Child Online Protection Act having been rejected and as yet unresolved as to whether the Justice Department will proceed to appeal that decision on a route to the Supreme Court ('Online Newsletter' March 1999 p.1), the...
- Research articles 1999-04-01
- Legislating the Tower of Babel: international restrictions on Internet content and the marketplace of ideas
- I. INTRODUCTION ...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- Broad coalition joins indecency suit. (class action against new law banning indecent material on the Internet)
- WASHINGTON - A group of online companies, newspaper publishers and software concerns last week joined the First Amendment suit challenging the new law that bans indecent material directed at minors on the Internet. The broad coalition, which said the law was vaguely drawn and...
- Research articles 1996-03-04
- Judge in Phila. overturns Internet porn law
- Congress' 1998 attempt to protect children from Internet pornography by making sites with sexual content subject to criminal penalties was ruled unconstitutional yesterday by a federal judge in Philadelphia.U.S. District Judge Lowell A. Reed Jr. called the law ineffective and overly broad, and said it violated the First Amendment's free-speech...
- Research articles 2007-03-23
- Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, the Internet and the First Amendment: Another Free Speech Showdown in Cyberspace?
- Late in 1997, the on-line industry stepped up its efforts to fight the growing problem of unsolicited commercial e-mail UCE. UCE, also known as junk e-mail, or "spam,"(1) had become so pervasive and the methods used by bulk e-mailers or "spammers" so unscrupulous, that some Internet Service Providers ISPs resorted...
- Research articles 1999-09-22
- Cyberlaw, computer programs and the First Amendment
- The law of cyberspace is evolving before our eyes--nearly as quickly as the technology. As the regulatory and judicial systems struggle to define this complex arena, it is critical for all risk management and insurance professionals to follow legal trends. The decisions made today will have long-term ramifications for doing...
- Research articles 1996-06-01
- ADVISORY/News Conference: Sponsored by Business Wire and Middleberg + Associates In Conjunction With the First Amendment Center
- Business Editors, Internet/On-Line Writers
- Research articles 2000-02-25
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