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The First Amendment in a Digital Age Last Featured: 9/26/2005 Listen to Full Program (Windows Media Player Required) Download the MP3 (Right-click and choose 'Save As...' from the pop-up menu.) Read Along with the Transcript (Acrobat PDF file.) Note: Justice Talking ceased production on June 30 of 2008. Link information on this site is not maintained and is provided for historical interest only. Although correct when posted, The Annenberg Public Policy Center makes no claim as the the accuracy or continued availability of any third party web links found on this site. Overview A special taping of Justice Talking at the National Archives in Washington DC. When the founding fathers wrote the First Amendment to guarantee freedom of speech and freedom of the press, they could never have imagined a world where information is disseminated world wide in seconds. What rights and protections do journalists have today? Do bloggers enjoy those same rights and privileges? Should we be able to control the sharing of copyright materials over peer to peer networks? Guests include Floyd Abrams, a visiting professor of First Amendment Law at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism; Jack Valenti, former president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America; and Lawrence Lessig, a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Watch the video special. Guests Floyd Abrams is a partner in the New York law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel and is the William J. Brennan Jr. Visiting Professor of First Amendment Law at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Abrams has argued frequently in the U.S. Supreme Court in significant First Amendment cases. He was co-counsel to The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case. He is the author of the recently published book Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment. Jack Valenti served as CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) from 1966 to 2004. He is the author of the movie rating system and tirelessly defended the copyright and intellectual property claims of the movie industry. He is probably best known for his opposition to home video recording and the VCR. Valenti has written four books: The Bitter Taste of Glory, A Very Human President, Speak Up With Confidence, and the political novel, Protect and Defend. Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Professor Lessig is the author of Free Culture, The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. He chairs the Creative Commons project, and serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge. ©1999-2010 University of Pennsylvania. All rights reserved. Any Justice Talking program downloaded or podcast from this site is for personal use only. Any Justice Talking program, or portion of it, may not reproduced, publicly distributed or displayed, used to create a derivative work, or otherwise copied or transmitted to a third party, in any format now known or hereafter discovered, except as expressly permitted by Law. To request permission to use Justice Talking audio, please contact support. NOTE: Justice Talking Blogs and Forums have been closed. Justice Talking’s last broadcast & podcast was June 30, 2008. Read more... The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, Inc. The famous "Betamax" case. MGM v. Grokster Acrobat PDF file U.S. Copyright Office Electronic Freedom Foundation Fair Use in the Law Fair Use checklist U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - Conference on Fair Use - Final Report Acrobat PDF The Library of Congress on Copyright Law Fair Use, Free Use, And Use by Permission: How to Handle Copyrights in All Media by Lee Wilson Responsible Use of the Internet in Education: Issues Concerning Evaluation, Citation, Copyright and Fair Use of Web Materials by Aniekan Ebiefung The Public Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More by Stephen Fishman Regulation of the Entertainment Industry The FCC's New Rules for Media Ownership Pornography and the First Amendment