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Incitement To Violence On The World Wide Web: Can Web Publishers Seek First Amendment Refuge?
White Papers On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado armed with a semiautomatic pistol, carbine, two sawed-off shotguns, and dozens of homemade bombs. Before killing themselves, the two teenagers...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Intel Backs Up Apple In Court
News The potential conflict between trade secrets and First Amendment rights intensified earlier this week as Intel, Genentech and the Business Software Alliance (BSA) filed court briefs in support of Apple.
[April 29, 2005, 10:00]
Encryption Export Picture Remains Unclear
News That's the consensus from some IT industry-watchers on Monday's ruling by a federal judge invalidating encryption export controls on First Amendment grounds. Patel wrote in Monday's ruling, and in another ruling last December on an earlier version...
[August 27, 1997, 10:04]
MPAA Launches Software Snooping Tool
Talkback Quotes: Fosbinder criticized the panel for failing to “even mention” the First Amendment and argued that if a similar standard were applied to print media, it would authorize a copyright owner to “shut down the New York Times on a mere suspicion.
[December 2, 2004, 20:57]
US Kicks Out Online Decency Act
News In a move being hailed as a pivotal victory for free speech and a boon to the evolution of the Internet, the Supreme Court today ruled that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment , affirming two lower court rulings barring its...
[June 27, 1997, 8:53]
US Congress Ignites Net Filter Fight
News But free speech advocates already are planning lawsuits to challenge the measure, which they say violates the First Amendment. An amendment attached to a sweeping appropriations bill that Congress passed Friday would require most of the nation's...
[December 19, 2000, 15:10]
Yahoo Free Speech Battle Thrown Out
News Censoring speech we find repugnant does not comport with our cherished First Amendment," the dissent said. Amendment, a slender 6-5 majority of the 9th US Circuit Court of In a case that pits European restrictions on "hate speech" against the...
[January 13, 2006, 8:15]
US Ruling Boosts Spam Fight
News The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's ruling, concluding that a 1991 federal law banning unsolicited fax advertising did not violate the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of expression.
[March 24, 2003, 11:11]
Anonymous Posting Under Attack
News And as the cases move ahead, those accustomed to using the Web anonymously have a few things to think about, not all of them comforting, according to some First Amendment experts. While a worker's contract with his employer may bar him from...
[March 10, 1999, 9:18]
COPA Backers Slam Ruling, Urge Appeal
News Enough is Enough spokeswoman Shyla Welch said COPA "gives the Web exactly the same First Amendment protection as print" materials, and concluded, "The judge merely bought into the ACLU's disgraceful fear-mongering.
[February 3, 1999, 9:26]
Deceptive URLs And 'virtual' Porn Banned
News Last year, the US Supreme Court slapped down Congress' first law banning nude images of computer-generated minors and underage teens, saying the 1996 measure violated the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of expression.
[March 28, 2003, 12:14]
Judge Upholds COPA Injunction
News While saying Congress should try again to somehow curb children's access to pornographic Web sites, Reed wrote that: "Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped...
[February 2, 1999, 9:10]
Misleading URLs May Become Illegal
News Last year, the US Supreme Court slapped down Congress' first attempt to ban nude images of computer-generated minors and underage teens, saying the 1996 law violated the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of expression.
[March 27, 2003, 10:12]
Is There A Future For US Child Protection Bill?
News The government has not yet managed to convince even one federal judge that the First Amendment permits any form of Internet censorship," said David Sobel, general counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Centre.
[April 6, 1999, 9:39]
Sharman Defends Makers Of File-swapping Software
News Sharman, the makers of Kazaa, on Wednesday hit back on behalf of the software companies, claiming the RIAA's move threatens consumers and US citizen's right to freedoms afforded to them under the US constitution's First Amendment.
[October 1, 2003, 11:15]
US Court Rejects Web Porn Law
News The analysis is the one we were making from the very beginning, which is that the law makes it a crime to communicate speech that is clearly protected (by the First Amendment) to adults," said Ann Beeson, an attorney at the American Civil...
[March 7, 2003, 7:51]
Free Speech Victory For DVD Crackers
News Our respect for the legislature and its enactment of the (trade secrets law) cannot displace our duty to safeguard the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment. The movie industry's "statutory right to protect its economically valuable trade secret...
[November 2, 2001, 10:12]
Anarchy In The USA
News Austin appears to be the first person so far convicted under the controversial law, which some First Amendment scholars say may violate the right to freedom of expression. My amendment gives law enforcement another tool in the war against terrorism...
[August 14, 2003, 14:35]
Video Games Get 'art' Status In The US
News In Tuesday's ruling, the panel decided that if the paintings of Jackson Pollock, the music of Arnold Schoenberg and the Jabberwocky verse of Lewis Carroll are protected by the First Amendment, then video games should be, too.
[June 4, 2003, 9:53]
Freedom Of Speech V The Will To Protect Children
News While admitting Congress should try again to somehow curb children's access to pornographic Web sites, Reed wrote that: "Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are...
[March 22, 1999, 10:55]
