MMC 3200 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Free Speech Coalition, World Intellectual Property Organization
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Specific cases (table of cases begins on page 651) Defamatory statements about police, sulivan was never named but said the comments reflected his behavior. Trial ruled on behalf of sulivan, supreme court unanimously reversed it. Ruled sulivan could not recover damages in this case unless he prove that the paper published the fact advertisement knowing was false, or that the paper exhibited reckless disregard for the truth. Commercial advertising enjoys a degree of first amendment protect. Relationship of speech in the marketplace of products or of service doesn"t make it valueless in the marketplace of ideas. Federal court ruled that the constraints constitutied a violation of the first amendment because they had been motivated by the fcc. Convicted of violating the cali penal code for sending five unsolicited brochures to a restaurant in newport which advertised four erotic books and one film. Motion pictures granted first amendment protection in 1952. Harper & row v nation enterprises 544, 547.
