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Mass Media Law Exam 2 Chapter 6 Study Guide

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transformative use   if an individual takes a portion of a copyrighted work and uses it for another purpose.  
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Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition   Laws included to protect children from being exploited, the court ruled that the justification for the law was insufficient sense congress failed to provide evidence of more than a remote connection between speech that might encourage child abuse  
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Most heavily regulated form of mass media   advertisment  
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commercial speech   nothing more than the selling of a product or service  
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Lanham act   stop unfair competition, used by someone trying to punish or sue for money. (Listerine case)  
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Erznoznik v City of Jacksonville   "important state interest" supreme court struck down a law because the definition of material that could not be distributed to juveniles was not specific enough  
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Harper & Row v National enterprises   a newspaper, tv broadcast, or website can summarize what it has learned from a copy of an unpublished memoir or book, but cannot quote sentences, paragraphs, or pages.  
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Commercial Speech Doctrine   1. Substantial state interest to justify regulation (gov. has to have a reason) 2. evidence has to show a connection ( the regulation advances the interest) 3. Reasonable fit between state interest/regulation  
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substantiate   prove to the FTC that your ad is true to what it claims.  
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copyright   protects original work of authorship, does not include: ideas, facts, letters, opinion, history, everyday words, anything not original.  
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Miller test   1. average person, applying contemporary community standards, finds the work as a whole, appeals to purest interest. 2.The work depicts in a patently offensive way sexual conduct defined by state law 3. Work lacks SLAPS  
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Bigelow v Virginia   led to the commercial speech doctrine (balences 1st amendement protection vs. gov. regulation) Time place manor  
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Digital Millennium Copyright Act   provided for fair use defense in cyberspace  
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Chilling effect   TV shows are afraid to do anything indecent in fear of punishment by fcc  
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Burstyn V Wilson   expanded 1st amendment to include coverage of motion pictures  
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Berne Convention   U.S. entered the international copyright treaty, made copyright more broad, as soon as something is created its covered by copyright  
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trademark   prevent confusion in the marketplace, can last forever (renewed every 5-10) years, up to companies to go against ppl violating  
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Can-Spam Act   no deceptive e-mail subject lines, identify emails as ads, monitor what others do  
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Communications Decency Act   made it a crime to transmit indecent material or allow indecent material to be transmitted over public computer networks to which children have access  
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Federal Dilution Trademark Act   gives the owners of trademarks/tradenames legal recourse against anyone who uses the same/simial trademarks on even dis-similar products (walkman)  
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