Word: speech
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This is precisely where a freedom of speech argument defending this production derails. Play rights are like inventors of technical improvements in communication: each give us new "media" of expression, new ways people can communicate. The Constitution provides for patents and copyrights Granting these protections for a limited number of years just push back the arrival, the "gift" of the new "medium of expression." It does not stymie existing freedom of expression Unlike patent, copyright protects freedom of expression by making sure remains your expression...
Director Joffe and screenwriter Bruce Davidson go to great pains to draw a parallel between Schanberg's abandonment of Pran and America's abandonment of Cambodia. When Schanberg is given an award for his Cambodian coverage, he gives a tear-filled acceptance speech laying the blame for Cambodia's agonies on the long-gone doorstep of the Nixon administration. Just afterwards Rockoff confronts Schanberg in the men's room, reminding Schanberg that the single-minded persistence that got him the award might also have resulted in the death of his friend...
...This case is significant because it raises fundamental questions of freedom of speech and the rights of minorities," said Tribe, a constitutional law expert who has agreed to argue the case for the National Gay Task Force (NGTF) for free...
These jeers greeted Johnny Bigley, 3, when he arrived at school last week in Pasadena, Md., escorted by his father. Johnny is too young to understand why he is being spurned by the older children, why all five of his classmates have boycotted the special speech-therapy course he attends, and why their parents sought a court order to bar him from the classroom...
...year old Jackson painted a bleak view of American 21 years after the stain civil rights leader made his famous "I Have a Dream" speech...