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Brief Of Amici Curiae — Aca International

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

ACA International (“ACA”), formerly known as the American Collectors Association, Inc., is the international trade association for credit and collection professionals. ACA’s members provide a wide variety of accounts receivable management services. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ACA represents the interests of approximately 5,300 third-party collection agencies, attorneys, credit grantors and vendor affiliates.

“Do-Not-Call-List” Testimony: Before The Senate Committee On Commerce, Science, And Transportation, Michael K. Powell

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

Good morning, Mr. Chairman and distinguished members of the Committee. It is my pleasure to come before you today with my colleague Federal Trade Commission Chairman Tim Muris to discuss the implementation of the national Do-Not-Call Registry.

Mmorpg's In The College Classroom, Aaron Delwiche

NYLS Law Review

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In Opposition To The Proposed Media Marketing Accountability Act Of 2001, Angela M. Papalaskaris

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

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The Free Speech Coalition & Adult Entertainment: An Inside View Of The Adult Entertainment Industry, Its Leading Advocate & The First Amendment, Clay Calvert, Robert Richards

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

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The Unusual Suspects: Unscrambling Satellite Piracy, David V. Lampman Ii

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

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As Seen On Tv: The Normative Influence Of Syndi-Court On Contemporary Litigiousness, Kimberlianne Podlas

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

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The Do-Not-Call List’S Big Hang-Up, Jared Strauss

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

On October 1, 2003, the Federal Trade Commission’s National Do- Not-Call Registry was supposed to go into effect. By forbidding companies and telemarketers from making unsolicited calls to anyone who had registered their phone number on the list three months prior, this program culminated a decade’s worth of efforts to alleviate consumer frustration with unwanted sales calls. However, on September 27, 2003, the District of Colorado derailed the registry, holding that the rule made an unconstitutional distinction between commercial and noncommercial speech by covering commercial calls and exempting calls for charitable, religious, or political organizations.

The Thin State In Thick Globalism: Sovereignty In The Information Age, Adeno Addis

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Looking at the astonishing technological developments in mass communication over the past several decades, Professor Addis explores whether and how the resulting communication revolution has undermined the notion of territorial sovereignty. Specifically, he argues that (1) although the territorial state has faced serious challenges from the communication revolution, the question is not whether state sovereignty will survive, but how thick or thin that sovereignty will (or should) be; (2) even if it were true that the territorial state is giving way to other institutional arrangements, those arrangements may not be a decentralized system of governance in that the communication revolution …

Shock And Awe: Does The First Amendment Protect A Media Right Of Access To Military Operations?, Karen C. Sinai

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

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Changing Channels And Bridging Divides: The Failure And Redemption Of American Broadcast Television Regulation, Anthony E. Varona

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

In Changing Channels and Bridging Divides: The Failure and Redemption of American Broadcast Television Regulation Professor Varona analyzes how the Supreme Court, Congress and the FCC have defined the legal duties of commercial broadcasters throughout the maturation of the television industry. First, he shows how the public trustee doctrine has failed, with broadcasters today airing very little 'public interest' programming. Second, he examines how and why the FCC has failed to effectively elucidate and enforce the public trustee doctrine, focusing on the irreconcilable First Amendment and commercial tensions inherent in the public trustee doctrine since its inception and the 'capture' …

Introduction To Symposium On Integrating New Economic Learning With Antitrust Doctrine, Jonathan Baker

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Law In Popular Culture, Richard Sherwin

Articles & Chapters

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Internet Contracting And Standard Terms In The Global Electronic Age: Perspectives For Japan, James Maxeiner

All Faculty Scholarship

This piece is intended to show Japanese law students how their own everyday experiences raise significant domestic and international legal questions. It shows that a seemingly technical matter need not be boring, but can provide an example of practical application of law internationally and of the benefits that knowledge of foreign law can bring in assisting in understanding and improving domestic law. It discusses standard terms in licenses of information and software.

Introduction: A Regulatory Regime For The Internet Age, Philip J. Weiser

Publications

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The Broadband Debate, A User's Guide, Tim Wu

Faculty Scholarship

Back in the 1990s, Internet communications policy was easier. It was easy to agree that the network's growth ought not be impended by excessive government regulation. It was easy to hope that the Internet would solve all of its own problems. Yet it turned out that the success of the network was hiding strong differences of opinion. Today, the euphoria is gone, and the divide in Internet communications policy has become clear and unmistakable. It most clearly a divide between two distinct groups: the self-proclaimed "Openists" and "Deregulationists."

This divide will do much to inform the reform of the Telecommunications …

The (New?) Right Of Making Available To The Public, Jane C. Ginsburg

Faculty Scholarship

The Berne Convention 1971 Paris Act covered the right of communication to the public incompletely and imperfectly through a tangle of occasionally redundant or self-contradictory provisions on "public performance," "communication to the public," "public communication," "broadcasting," and other forms of transmission. Worse, the scope of rights depended on the nature of the work, with musical and dramatic works receiving the broadest protection, and images the least; literary works, especially those adapted into cinematographic works, lying somewhere in between. The 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty rationalized and synthesized protection by establishing full coverage of the communication right for all protected works of …