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Of Note

Communications Forum Luncheon Series


May 7, 2009, Speaker
Anna Gomez,
Acting Administrator

National Telecommunications
and Information
Administration (NTIA)

Video of Speech

The Media Institute's Communications Forum Luncheons
are now live streamed on NextGenWeb.org

Intellectual Property Issues

Everyone Hates DRM
by Prof. Douglas Lichtman,
UCLA School of Law

Ten years ago, a meaningful discussion of copyright law could focus almost exclusively on the federal copyright statute and its related case law. At that time, the primary powers wielded by copyright holders were rights granted explicitly by the statute, such as the exclusive right to authorize duplication, and the exclusive right to authorize distribution....

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Speaking Freely

Policing Hate Speech: Not the Government’s Job
by Tony Mauro

On the campaign trail last September, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus of the need to “stop the hateful rhetoric filling our airwaves” that tainted the national debate over immigration reform. Now that Obama is president, the National Hispanic Media Coalition has latched onto those words to urge the Federal Communications Commission to launch an inquiry into hate speech in the media...

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Media & Communications Policy Blog

With Friends Like These
by Patrick Maines

Signs of institutional meltdown are everywhere apparent.... But nowhere is the collapse of standards and credibility more alarming than among journalists and their profession....

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The Big, Uneventful Day
by Richard T. Kaplar

A blog about media and communications policy would be remiss if it did not mark the fact that this is a watershed date in television history – even if nothing much seems out of the ordinary...

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