FEPP Archives - Commentaries - 2002
Corporate
Censorship and Media Democracy: A Report on the ACME Summit
(November 2002) - Stephanie Elizondo Griest describes this major meeting
of media democracy and media literacy activists in October 2002, and on
the ways that consolidation in the media industry threatens free expression.
The
Next Frontier: "Intellectual Property" and Intellectual Freedom
(October 2002) - FEPP Director Marjorie Heins's Julie M. Boucher Memorial
Lecture to the Colorado Association of Libraries, outlining threats to
art and culture posed by current copyright law.
The
Miracle: Film Censorship and the Entanglement
of Church and State
(October 2002) - 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.
Blame
That Tune: Adolescent Speech and Moral Panics
(July 22, 2002) - An excerpt from FEPP advisory
board member Nan Levinson's book, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories.
The
Delicate Balance Between Copyright and Free Expression
(June 3, 2002) - How a battle over the public domain became a major Supreme
Court free expression case.
Youth
Free Expression Network: The Making of a Movement
(May 22, 2002) - A Report on the May 3, 2002 Colloquium, "Strategies
for Advancing the Free Expression Rights of Youth."
Our
Children's Hearts, Minds, and Libidos: What's at Stake in the COPA Case
(April 18, 2002) - Salon.com and the Kama Sutra screen saver were
just a few of the sites threatened with censorship as the Supreme Court
prepared to rule in Ashcroft vs. ACLU.
Book
Banning in the 21st Century: What's at Stake in the CIPA Case
(March 20, 2002; updated May 31, 2002, June 23, 2003) - The "Children's
Internet Protection Act" - or CIPA - mandates that all public schools
and libraries using federal funds for Internet use or connections must
install a filtering system. Given the well-documented fact that all Internet
filters mistakenly block thousands of sites that don't even have sexual
content, CIPA poses a major threat to intellectual freedom, and indeed,
to the very function of libraries.
Culture
on Trial: The Story of 3 Landmark Censorship
Cases
(Winter 2002) - The trial that freed James Joyce's Ulysses; the
case that broke the Catholic Church stranglehold over American movies;
and the McCarthy Era case that ended teachers' loyalty oaths.
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