FEPP Archives - Issues - Art
Censorship - 2003
The
Miracle: Film Censorship and
the Entanglement of Church and State
(October 2003) - How the Catholic Church pressured New
York State into banning a short Italian film in 1951, leading to a major
Supreme Court case and reflecting church-state problems that plague American
politics to this day.
Free
Expression in Arts Funding: A Public Policy Report
(2003) - A survey of free-expression policies among state
and local arts agencies, including ways of anticipating and dealing with
attacks on controversial art. Includes background on the arts funding
wars of the 1990s, and candid interviews with agency officials. Read the
report in html or pdf.
"The
Progress of Science & Useful Arts": Why
Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual Freedom
Music swapping -- encryption -- the frozen public domain
-- where should we draw the line between rewarding creativity through
the copyright system and society’s competing interest in the free
flow of ideas? FEPP's policy report, "The Progress of Science
and Useful Arts": Why Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual Freedom
covers "fair use," copyright term extension, the Digital Millenium
Copyright Act, and much more - without legalese.
Executive Summary | Full
Report | Media Advisory
Friend
of the Court Brief in Supreme Court Internet Filtering Case by Organizations
Concerned About the Digital Divide
(February 10, 2003) - FEPP filed a brief on behalf of Partnership
For Progress on the Digital Divide, Harlem Live, and other organizations
arguing that the "Children's Internet Protection Act," which
forces libraries to install Internet filters on all computers, worsens
the digital divide and thus relegates many Americans to second-class information
citizenship. Read the brief in html
or pdf.
The
Strange Case of Sarah Jones
(January 24, 2003; updated February 20, 2003) - Where does
the federal government get the power to ban a feminist rap poem?
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