Disparagement provision placed be placed on speech itself. It has historically been much more tied to First Amendment values, to the incentivizeation of Free Expression. Part of that seems to me to ignore the fact that we have a culture in which we had tshirts and logos and rock bands and so forth are expressing the point of view they are using the market to express views. I mean certainly disparagement wouldnt work with copyright. Thats a powerful important Government Program. Ret melet me say two or three things before that. Music the slants are expressing views on social and political issues. They have a First Amendment right to do that. Theyre able to copyright their songs and get intellectual Property Protection that way. If congress attempted to prohibit them either have having copyright protection or copyright registration on their music, that would pose a much more substantial First Amendment issue. I was somewhat surprised that in your brief you couldnt bring yourself to say t
The area and these are the excessive heat watches so that is what we are currently under. Today was slightly cooler than yesterday. We saw temperatures drop yesterday and more today but now, we come back around and start ratcheting in it back up. I want to show you, this is the western grid, basically. See the purple . I am talking phoenix, vegas and the central valley. Even though it is cool in the bay area, we are talking about some significant heat in these bigcity areas causing pg e to have a flex alert. Air quality is not so great and this is the real deal. This is a bigtime heatwave and well really just getting going with it. He picked on sunday and it pulled off today and it is going to peek back into thursday so we will dial it all up for you but just stay cool and take it slow and think about the elderly and the pats being outdoors too long and drinking plenty of fluids. Temperatures climb near 90 in the San Bernardino National Forest where firefighters say they are making at
The conditions. But jana katsuyama, its been causing power problems. Reporter downtown, its only 70 degrees, a little of a relief from earlier in the day. The fountains are off, but they got a lot of use today. As some people tried to get out of their house to conserve energy, other people and businesses here downtown lost power completely. At livermores public fountains, families look for some relief from the triple digit heat. Chance and veronica brought their toddler and 8 week old baby, trying to comply with the alert, asking for consumers to reduce power use. Its rough with a 2month old, and 2yearold. Trying not to run the washing machine, the dryer. Reporter the California Independent system operator, issued the flex alert, asking people to conserve during the peak demand time between 2 00 p. M. And 9 00 p. M. Theyre trying to pull a lath more power to tran mission lines, and sometimes we get get anymore through the transmission lines. Reporter californias power grid has added 20
May it please the court. The provision at issue in the case, 15 u. S. Beliefs or National Symbols. Based on that provision, the pto denied to region the slants, as a service mark of the band. It did not limit the ability to use the mark in commerce or to otherwise engage in expression or debate on any subject that he wishes. Because of the disparagement provision restricts the program and not speech, it does not violate the First Amendment. It was a copy righted Government Program . I would say copright and c y copyright registration is tied to values of Free Expression. The part that seems to me that ignore the fact that we have a culture in which we have tshirts and logos and rock bands and so forth, but we are expressing a pouint of view, thy are using the market to express views. Disparagement would not clearly work with copyright, that is a powerful, important Government Program. Through their music, the slants are expressing views on social and political issues. They are able to
Did not limit a respondents ability to engage in expression or debate on any subject he wishes. Because section 52 as disparagement provision places restrictions on certain areas, it does not violate the First Amendment. I cooperate of a Government Program . It has historically been more tied to First Amendment values. To the incentivizing of Free Expression. Factat seems to ignore the that we have a culture in which logos, rockrched, bands, expressing a point of view. Using the market to express views. Disparagements would not work with copyrights. As a powerful Government Program. Let me say two or three things about that. There is no question that through their music, the slants views onssing their issues. Theyre are able to get intellectual Property Protection that way. If they were prevented from having copyright protection or registration on their music, that would pose much more substantial First Amendment issues. Im surprised that you could not bring yourself to say that the go