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Copyright And Free Expression In China’S Film Industry, Eric Priest Jan 2015

Copyright And Free Expression In China’S Film Industry, Eric Priest

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

This Article analyzes whether copyright, which creates private rights in original expression and is therefore a legal tool for restricting the dissemination of information, exacerbates or undercuts state censorship in China’s film industry. Recent scholarship suggests that copyright law reinforces China’s oppressive censorship regime because both copyright and state censorship erect legal barriers around expressive works. The theory that copyright enhances censorship in China, however, overlooks the immense tension between state attempts at information control and market-supported information production made possible by copyright. This Article demonstrates that the Chinese government does not wield unchecked, top-down control over China’s film industry …


The V-Chip And The Constitutionality Of Television Ratings, Benjamin C. Zipursky, Eric Burns, Donald W. Hawthorne, Thomas Johnson Dec 1997

The V-Chip And The Constitutionality Of Television Ratings, Benjamin C. Zipursky, Eric Burns, Donald W. Hawthorne, Thomas Johnson

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Restricting Speech On The Internet: Finding An Appropriate Regulatory Framework, Andrew B. Sims, Parry Aftab, Lisa M. Fantino, Richard A. Kurnit Dec 1997

Restricting Speech On The Internet: Finding An Appropriate Regulatory Framework, Andrew B. Sims, Parry Aftab, Lisa M. Fantino, Richard A. Kurnit

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Panel Ii: Censorship Of Cable Television’S Leased And Public Access Channels: Current Status Of Alliance For Community Media V. Fcc , Stuart W. Gold, Marjorie Heins, James N. Horwood, Robert T. Perry Mar 1996

Panel Ii: Censorship Of Cable Television’S Leased And Public Access Channels: Current Status Of Alliance For Community Media V. Fcc , Stuart W. Gold, Marjorie Heins, James N. Horwood, Robert T. Perry

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Censorship On The Internet: Do Obscene Or Pornographic Materials Have A Protected Status?, Paula Franzese, J. Robert Flores, Peter D. Kennedy, Robert T. Perry Mar 1995

Censorship On The Internet: Do Obscene Or Pornographic Materials Have A Protected Status?, Paula Franzese, J. Robert Flores, Peter D. Kennedy, Robert T. Perry

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Censorship, Charles L. White Jan 1995

Censorship, Charles L. White

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Note: New York City's Restrictive Zoning Of Adult Businesses: A Constitutional Analysis, Rachel Simon Jan 1995

Note: New York City's Restrictive Zoning Of Adult Businesses: A Constitutional Analysis, Rachel Simon

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Part I explores the adult pornography industry in New York City and the constitutional framework developed by both federal and New York State courts to regulate non-obscene pornographic expression. Part II analyzes the City's Adult Zoning Resolution in light of decisions of the New York State Court of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court, and various federal district and circuit courts. Part III proposes changes that will increase the probability that the City's Adult Zoning Resolution will survive constitutional challenges. This Note concludes that although the current version of the City's Adult Zoning Resolution infringes unconstitutionally on adult business owners' …


Panel Iv: Censorship Of Cable Television’S Leased And Public Access Channels, Majorie Heins, James N. Horwood, Robert T. Perry, Michael Sitcov Mar 1994

Panel Iv: Censorship Of Cable Television’S Leased And Public Access Channels, Majorie Heins, James N. Horwood, Robert T. Perry, Michael Sitcov

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Restricting The Right Of Correspondence In The Prison Context: Thornburgh V. Abbott And Its Progeny, Samuel J. Levine Mar 1994

Restricting The Right Of Correspondence In The Prison Context: Thornburgh V. Abbott And Its Progeny, Samuel J. Levine

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Giving Women The Benefit Of Equality: A Response To Wirenius, Tracy Higgins Jan 1992

Giving Women The Benefit Of Equality: A Response To Wirenius, Tracy Higgins

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This essay offers a feminist response to Mr. Wirenius’s provocative critique of Professor MacKinnon. Whether supporting or opposing pornography regulation, feminist legal scholars tend to approach the issue from neither of the traditional positions – First Amendment absolutist or moral censor. Rather, a feminist approach to pornography is informed by an understanding of the profound harm that pornography can and does inflict upon women. Consequently, even for feminists who many oppose pornographic regulation, the choice is not an obvious one, as it seems to be for Mr. Wirenius, between the good of civil libertarianism and the evil of totalitarianism. An …


Giving The Devil The Benefit Of Law: Pornographers, The Feminist Attack On Free Speech, And The First Amendment, John F. Wirenius Jan 1992

Giving The Devil The Benefit Of Law: Pornographers, The Feminist Attack On Free Speech, And The First Amendment, John F. Wirenius

Fordham Urban Law Journal

The battle lines over the censorship of “pornographic” materials have been shifted by a faction of the women’s movement following the publication of Andrea Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women. With Dworkin, Catharine A. MacKinnon, a vocal and influential female advocate, co-authored a prototypical ordinance to protect against the degradation of individuals, mainly women, in pornography. To these advocates, pornography causes direct harm to individuals coerced into sexual activity and indirect harm by inculcating society with the chauvinistic norms of the pornographic world. While Wirenius agrees with MacKinnon and Dworkin about the importance of pornography in First Amendment jurisprudence, he disagrees …