WASHINGTON, DC — It has not been Federal Communications Commission Chair Kevin Martin’s month. First the Third Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the $550,000 fine assessed to CBS for its 9/16th of a second exposure of Janet Jackson’s breast during the 2004 Super Bowl...

JAPAN — Asian cultures have long venerated their elders and the generations that have come before. The degree of worshipful adoration that 74-year-old Shigeo Tokuda is experiencing, however, is likely familiar only to emperors, pop stars, and movie icons. In his own way,...

PRAGUE — A Prague city council member has offered 1 million Czech Republic Koruny (about U.S. $65,515) as a reward for the identity of an anonymous cartoonist who posted on the internet creative renderings of the councilor and his girlfriend in sexual poses.Milan Richter, a...

WASHINGTON, DC — Comcast Corp. acted illegally when it employed file-transfer disruptions to manage traffic on its broadband network, according to a majority of Federal Communications Commission members.Three of five commissioners have signed off on an order censuring...

WASHINGTON, DC — Kathy Adam’s discrimination case against the State Department is an odd one – and the July 18th ruling doesn’t have everyone convinced — but it’s created an interesting precedent that will likely make many an attorney at least slightly more...

CYBERSPACE — Book trailers are all the rage in publishing these days. Authors, publishers and publicists create them to attract the attention of readers in a shrinking market. The concept is that with multiple media assaulting the senses from every direction, a mini-movie...

SAN JOSE, CA – A Milpitas, CA, man who once served prison time for transmitting child pornography via a computer bulletin board service was indicted Wednesday on charges he mailed obscene materials across state lines.Robert Alan Thomas, 52, once dubbed “the Marquis de...

TEMPE, AZ – In all likelihood the behind-the-scenes financial activity in the adult entertainment space will experience no glitches after Friday’s closing of one of the largest credit card acquiring banks for so-called “high risk” merchants, but merchants who processed plastic...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Orlando, FL-based attorney Lawrence G. Walters was installed as the president of the First Amendment Lawyers Association July 26 at the organization’s meeting in San Francisco, CA.FALA is an Illionis-based, 40-year-old association. Its membership is composed...

POMPANO BEACH, FL — If Ray Guhn’s prosecution for obscenity did nothing else for the people of the great state of Florida, it exposed the secret lives of their keyboards. Evidently those keyboards (sans human interaction, of course) have wild, warped and wicked minds when...