Today, the Supreme Court re-investigates the constitutionality of the FCC’s ban on certain profanity on television after the Second Circuit recently criticized the FCC’s constitutional power as ambiguous. This just reminds us of George Carlin’s 7 Dirty Words monologue. (We’ll let you Google it yourselves.) Even rocker-turned-American Idol star, Steven Tyler, weighs in on the [...]
It is no secret that consumers want as much as they can get for free. Including music. Do you really have to pay for music? Yes, Mr. Consumer, you do. First, it’s the law. Piracy is stealing. Second, musicians need to eat too. But even when consumers pay, the digital downloading of music has been [...]
…soon to be refiled. Nu Image’s move to voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit comes in the aftermath of an August decision by a federal judge in Washington, who forced the plaintiff to drop all anonymous defendants who weren’t reasonably believed to be residing in his jurisdiction. The defendants? The 23,322 alleged pirates of The Expendables, the 2010 [...]
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