{"id":35,"date":"2006-02-02T21:07:12","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T02:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2006-02-27T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T20:17:12","slug":"horrible-us-legislation-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/02\/horrible-us-legislation-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill creeping through US Congress limits artistic expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Edward Greenberg of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stockphotographer.info\/\">StockPhotographer.info<\/a> writes,<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Act contains certain anti-speech aspects which will directly affect illustrators, photographers and others.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It will serve to eliminate the current protection for non-commercial speech currently contained in the Lanham Act. It will prevent businesses (artists)and consumers from invoking famous trademarks to explain or illustrate their discussion of public issues.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;For example, using the phrase &quot;Where&#8217;s the Beef&quot; could be actionable. Although you might use it in a non-commercial way, the (very) famous Wendy&#8217;s slogan when used to comment might not be protected by the fair use exception&#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stockphotographer.info\/content\/view\/77\/98\/\">Continue reading the article<\/a>, which provides further explanation and contact info for who to write to to express your concern. Please check this out and take action&#151;it has potentially catastrophic effects for artists as well as free speech and fair use in general.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/02\/02\/creepy_bill_creeping.html\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Greenberg of StockPhotographer.info writes, &quot;The Act contains certain anti-speech aspects which will directly affect illustrators, photographers and others. &quot;It will serve to eliminate the current protection for non-commercial speech currently contained in the Lanham Act. It will prevent businesses (artists)and consumers from invoking famous trademarks to explain or illustrate their discussion of public issues. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[134,393,586,614,663,773,961,976,1776],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-arlen-specter","tag-copyright","tag-fair-use","tag-first-ammendment","tag-free-speech","tag-hr-683","tag-lanham-act","tag-law","tag-trademark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->