Comments on: Court Overturns FCC’s Broadcast Flag Rule

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Sat, 07 May 2005 00:02:46 +0000

John,

Done. I've included instead an essentially identical summary of the
case from the Washington Post, picking from one of the dozens of
essentially identical summaries of the case linked at GoogleNews.

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Best,

James

James H. Joyner, Jr.
Outside the Beltway

By: John Roberts

John Roberts — Fri, 06 May 2005 23:31:41 +0000

James,

Thrilled that you read CNET News.com (www.news.com) and that you appreciate the story enough to link to it. However, I would ask that you not cut and paste so much from the News.com story for use on your site, and perhaps you would edit this post down to a sentence or two of the verbatim report?

Yes, I appreciate the possible irony of my comment given the context of the story. We love linking (we do it ourselves a fair bit), but our full-text stories are our business. http://linking.news.com/ explains our take on this.

Thanks for reading.

John Roberts
CNET News.com product development

By: Don Singleton

Don Singleton — Fri, 06 May 2005 19:13:41 +0000

Court yanks down FCC's broadcast flag
So Hollywood will have to try to bribe enough congressmen to pass a law authorizing it. Hopefully this will be difficult to do in a Republican controled congress that does not like Hollywood.

By: PAXALLES

PAXALLES — Fri, 06 May 2005 18:04:05 +0000

Copy-All-Right Ruled by Court - Broadcast Flag Lowered

Copy-All-Right Ruled by Court - Broadcast Flag Lowered

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 06 May 2005 17:25:54 +0000

Jeff Jarvis argues that the entertainment industry ought to take this opportunity and figure out how to make a profit with it, rather than going back to Congress seeking protection.

Ahh yes, but rent seeking is so much more attractive. You get reduced competition, higher prices and profits and you don't have to provide as much output. Going Jarvis' route would entail you know...competition and that means work. So much better to have your pet pols give you market power!

Lets hear it for activist government! Woohoo!