FEPP Archives - Issues - Media Policy:
Media Literacy & Media Democracy - 2004
Court
Will Review Whether Cable Companies Can Monopolize Broadband
(December 6, 2004) - In a case with
huge implications for free expression and open access to the Internet,
the Supreme Court has agreed to review an appeals court ruling that would
require cable companies to open their broadband lines to competitors.
A
Question of Fair Play
(November 15, 2004) - Can current remedies for media bias
handle threats like Sinclair's aborted anti-Kerry campaign?
Comments
to the FCC on Broadcast Localism
(November 1, 2004) - The Brennan Center for
Justice, the Consumer Federation of America, and 30 other organizations
urged the agency responsible for regulating the public airwaves to repair
the lack of localism and diversity in commercial broadcasting by providing
more opportunities for independent community-oriented nonprofit media.
Structural
Free Expression Issues
(September 10, 2004) - How the copyright system, media
regulation, and government funding affect free speech.
Comments
to the Federal Communications Commission in the Matter of Digital Audio
Broadcasting Systems
(June 16, 2004) - The Brennan Center Free Expression Policy
Project joined with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in comments to
the FCC opposing the the record industry's request for a mandated technology
protection measure that would prevent home copying of digital radio broadcasts.
Such home copying is specifically protected by federal law and is also
probably "fair use" under our copyright system.
Disney
and Corporate Censorship
(May 21, 2004) - What's the real problem with the Walt
Disney Company's refusal to distribute Michael Moore's film, Fahrenheit
9/11?
What
is the Fuss About Janet Jackson's Breast?
(February 3, 2004) - How do mini-culture wars get started,
when there are so many more pressing issues on the public-policy agenda?
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