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Comment To Fcc On Media Ownership Rules, Malla Pollack
Comment To Fcc On Media Ownership Rules, Malla Pollack
Malla Pollack
Comment Submitted Jan. 2007 in Media Ownership Rules Docket.
A Listener’S Free Speech, A Reader’S Copyright, Malla Pollack
A Listener’S Free Speech, A Reader’S Copyright, Malla Pollack
Malla Pollack
Despite the Supreme Court’s repeated use of free speech doctrine to derail media reforms, some reform is possible. As Jerome A. Barron recognized, the Court’s central error is hypothesizing a romanticized speaker. The Court’s copyright jurisprudence is similarly marred by its congruent focus on a romanticized author. The original and continuing central purpose of both copyright and free speech is the wide distribution of material to citizens – especially when politically relevant information and opinions are involved. The Constitution’s copyright clause, Article I, section 8, clause 8, allows Congress the power to enact only such statutes as encourage the “progress” …
Comment To Fcc On Media Ownership Rules (2002), Malla Pollack
Comment To Fcc On Media Ownership Rules (2002), Malla Pollack
Malla Pollack
Comment to FCC on media ownership rules, 2002