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...Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer paid a hushed visit to Harvard Law School yesterday, calling Bush v. Gore the “most stressful” case during his 12-year tenure and delivering a short address on the high court’s operations. Breyer’s speech to Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree’s criminal law class was kept secret from everyone, including Ogletree’s students, until minutes before it began. After a warm greeting from the first-year students, Breyer, a Law School graduate, delivered a relaxed talk about...
This controversy has its origins in 1978’s landmark Supreme Court case FCC v. Pacifica Foundation. A listener to Pacifica’s New York City station filed a complaint after George Carlin’s infamous “Filthy Words” bit—in which the legendary stand-up comic and counter-culture icon gleefully lists and graphically annotates the anatomical, excretory, and reproductive colloquialisms deemed unfit for broadcast media...
...used the outrage inspired by Jackson’s Super Bowl striptease to legitimize the recent restriction of indecent broadcasts, but the “Big 4” networks argue that the adoption of a ratings system in 1997 and the introduction of the v-chip—which allows users to block programming rated for graphic violence, explicit sexual content, and coarse language...
...hint of the types of performances to be highlighted at Arts First, then next week promises to be as diverse and varied as it is interesting and talented. The one-hour show will give the audience a glimpse into a traditional South Indian music called Carnatic. Vocalists Samir V. Rao ’08 and Vasanthi Sridhar ’07 will perform, accompanied on traditional Carnatic instruments by violinist Vivek A. Rudrapatna ’06, and mridangam (a double sided South Indian drum) player Shakeel Avadhany (MIT ’09). According to Rudrapatna, Carnatic music is very...
...even this distinction, between creative reuse in a recognizably new composition, and tired theft, was eventually erased by the courts. The real “zero hour” of sampling occurred in the notorious “three notes” case of 2005, Bridgeport Music Inc. v. Dimension Films, in which the 6th Circuit Court ruled that the use of even three notes of a song constituted illegal sampling. Even the RIAA was opposed to this ruling, and these guys eat aborted fetuses for breakfast.Looking at it from this perspective, almost every creative work could be found...