Article: MPAA Files Amicus Brief in 'Flava v MyVidster' 7th Circuit Appeal

Published: April 06, 2012

Flava Works v MyVidster, is notable not just for the fact that Google and Facebook, and now the Motion Picture Association of America, among...

Article: ACLU Brief Supports Free Speech's 2257 Fight

Published: March 05, 2010

The American Civil Liberties Union, long an ally of the adult industry as far as First Amendment issues are concerned, has filed an amicus brief...

Article: ACLU Amicus Urges DC Circuit to Overturn AF Holdings Ruling

Published: May 16, 2013

According to the ACLU, District Court Judge Howell erred when she ruled last August that ISPs must hand over the names of 1,058 anonymous...

Article: Hearings in Measure B Lawsuit Postponed

Published: May 09, 2013

Those who were planning to attend the hearing where the attorneys for Vivid Entertainment LLC, Kayden Kross and Logan Pierce would argue for a...

Article: Staunch 1st Amendment Advocate Steven Swander Dies

Published: December 10, 2012

Steven Swander, a tireless defender of free speech rights for adult movies, strip clubs and adult novelties, died of mesothelioma, a...

Article: Judge: No Requirement to Secure Home Wi-Fi Against Pirates

Published: September 12, 2012

A federal judge has ruled that an individual cannot be held liable if they neglect to password-protect their internet Wi-Fi and someone they do...

Article: MyVidster Prevails in Appeals Court Ruling in Flava Works Case

Published: August 03, 2012

The case dates back to Oct. 2010, when the Miami-based gay content producer filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in the Northern District of...

Article: EFF Slams 'Negligence' Claim in Corbin Fisher Copyright Suit

Published: June 18, 2012

EFF has filed an amicus brief in a copyright infringement case filed in federal court in New York by Corbin Fisher parent Liberty Media Holdings...

Article: Fleeting Expletives & Charlotte Ross's Ass Go Before High Court

Published: January 08, 2012

It's been two and a half years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion, authored by conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, in the case of...

Article: Parents TV Council Complains to FCC About 'X-Factor' Non-Nudity

Published: September 23, 2011

In what seems to be a desperate attempt to appear relevant once again to conservative religious groups, the pro-censorship Parents Television...

Article: MiM, Others Naively Label NBC’s ‘The Playboy Club’ as Porn

Published: June 29, 2011

As diligent as the people at Morality in Media may be in their campaign to eradicate pornography, by continuing to label Playboy as porn they...

Article: This Week In Censorship

Published: April 08, 2011

Familiar names in the pro-censorship biz have been busy making pronouncements and delivering letters, likely in the hopes of diverting their...

Article: Apple Sends C&D to MiKandi Over ‘App Store’ Usage

Published: March 23, 2011

Apple has decided that the world cannot tolerate another App Store, especially if the other online entity sells porn apps! That would be MiKandi,...

Article: Perfect 10 Raises Chilling Effects in Google Lawsuit

Published: December 24, 2010

Perfect 10 founder Dr. Norm Zada simply does not give up, and has appealed the most recent District Court rulings back to the Ninth Circuit U.S....

Article: EFF Asks Courts Not to Unmask 'Does' in Copyright Lawsuits

Published: November 29, 2010

The Electronic Freedom Foundation has asked courts in Texas and West Virginia to prevent the identities of thousands of 'John Does' from being...

Article: 2008 Joe Francis Lawsuit Morphs into Free Speech Test Case

Published: October 26, 2010

A lawsuit filed in 2008 against Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis and two companies he operates by four women who accused the GGW team of...

Article: Supreme Court Denies Cert on Utah Nudity Tax Case

Published: October 12, 2010

In a move that could spell disaster for adult businesses countrywide, the U.S. Supreme Court today denied the petition for certiorari filed by...

Article: 11th Circuit Sides with Miami in CocoDorm Appeal

Published: July 01, 2010

The appellate court ruled against CocoDorm’s zoning arguments but remanded the case to a lower court for another look at constitutional claims.

Article: Justice Elena Kagan?

Published: May 10, 2010

For more than a month, ever since Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced that he would be stepping down from his high court position...

Article: Justice John Paul Stevens, Supporter of Free Speech, To Retire

Published: April 09, 2010