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Ready or Not, Digital Broadcasting is Almost Here

by: Sarah Carmody, Associate Editor, MTTLR Under the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005, Congress mandated that all full-power television broadcast stations stop broadcasting in analog format and broadcast only in digital after February 17,...

The Perils of YouTube Filtering: Part 2

by: Tony Bates, Associate Editor, MTTLREditor: Part 1 introduced the emergence of filtering as a potential solution to copyright and infringement, and examined why it fails copyright owners. This part considers the problems of filtering from the perpsective of users...

The Perils of YouTube Filtering: Part 1

by: Tony Bates, Associate Editor, MTTLRThe growing emergence of “Web 2.0”1 has caused an explosion in the amount of user-generated content that appears on the Internet.2 YouTube.com has revolutionized the way we watch some of this content online, by allowing users to...

The Proper Role of Ambiguity in the Chevron Analysis

by: Mat Gordon, Associate Editor, MTTLRIntroductionCan federal agencies redefine the law in the face of technological innovation? Terrell v. United States,1 a recent case decided in the district court of our very own Eastern District of Michigan, raises this issue. In...