Variable obscenity laws

American Airlines brought a lawsuit against a travel agency named “A 1-800-AMERICAN.” The travel agency bought listings in telephone yellow pages under the heading “Airlines,” and, because its name began with “A 1,” was generally listed first in the airlines sections, often right before American Airlines. The actual toll-free phone number for the travel agency was 1-800-263-7422 (1-800-AMERICA). The court ruled in favor of American Airlines, enjoining the travel agency from continuing to use the name A 1-800-AMERICAN and the phone number 1-800-AMERICA. The most likely basis for the court’s ruling was that

Chapter 14 reminds us that the term “[BLANK-1]” unlike the term obscenity, has no legal definition in the United States, and, thus, it is without legal significance in the United States and, instead, is commonly used (and misused) as a catch-all term by laypeople to describe anything sexually explicit they find offensive or believe is harmful.

Among the ‘Six Rights Under Copyright Law’ — which of these is NOT one of the listed rights?

Under current law, a work becomes protected by U.S. copyright law:

Under the third prong of the current test used by the U.S. Supreme Court for determining whether material is obscene, the fact finder must determine if the speech in question

The name of the feminist legal scholar who claims pornography objectifies women and represents “the power of men over women, expressed through unequal sex, sanctioned both through and prior to state power” is

The term [BLANK-1] is a tort that is also called unfair competition, that is intended to stop a person trying to pass his or her work off as the work of someone else or a person trying to pass off the work of someone else as his or her own work.

Which of the following statements is true about copyright law?

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