NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 2, 1948
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Court sustains 3 lower decisions, accepts 1 app Religious, gay rights cases Zenith claims Japanese Selling tapes of new refused by Supreme Court illegally flooded market violates copyright st
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said yesterday that universities may ban students from soliciting other students door-to-door to promote their religious beliefs, but denied colleges the right to ban homosexual student groups from meeting on campus.
In the religion case, the court rejected an appeal by a Raleigh, fundamentalist faith required to spread the Gospel personally.
In the gay student case, the court let stand a federal court ruling that Texas A&M erased when it denied a lawsuit against organization the right to meet on campus.
That case began in April 1976 when a group of Texas A&M students asked to meet their meetings to discuss the meetings of their group called Gay Student Services.
THE GROUP WANTED to post notices on school bulletin boards, meet on the College Station campus and have access to the student newspaper and radio to provide services and information about homosexual issues to homosexual people and the general public.
They said they did not want official recognition because some of their members wished to remain anonymous, and because the group's
A top college official denied the group use of campus facilities, saying that since homosexual conduct was illegal at the time in Texas, it would be inappropriate for a university official to support a group likely to "incite, promote and result" in homosexual activity.
existence might be an uncomfortable problem on the conservative campus, where more than 35,000 students are enrolled.
AFTER TAKING THEIR case through the courts two times, the group finally won a ruling from the 58 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the university violated First Amendment rights and that the group based upon the homosexual content of the group's ideas.
Mere fear or apprehension that illegal conduct would result from the group's meetings was not enough to trample the homosexual group's free scee- rights.
In College Station, Texas, A&M officials said the university would accept the ruling 'like good soldiers' in a case of a bombing possibility it would seek a rehearing.
In the religious solicitation case, Scott Chapman was a student at North Carolina State University in 1980 when he canvassed door to door with fellow students to attend a series of Scripture discussions.
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON — Appeals by Japanese television manufacturers in the dispute with 'dumping' TV sets in the United States will be heard by the Supreme Court, justices ruled yesterday.
The justices will hear arguments next term from a federal appeals court ruling clearing the way for a trial on charges the Japanese company did not pay the price in the United States in violation of federal antitrust law.
The dumping question arrived in court in December 1970, when National Union Electric Corp. and Zenith Radio Corp. filed suit against 24 companies, including seven Japanese television manufacturers, and several American firms, including Sears, Roebuck & Co., which purchased Japanese television receivers for resale.
THE SUIT, FILED in federal court in Pennsylvania, alleged the Japanese companies conspired for 20 years to drive American TV manufacturers out of business by selling television receivers and other electronic goods at artificially low prices in the United States.
The U.S. companies also argued that enormous quantities of radios, phonographs, tape and audio equipment, as well as portable and color
Zenith, for years a leading U.S. color TV manufacturer, was badly injured as a result of the Japanese products. National Union, which has abandoned TV manufacture, once made Emerson TV sets.
TV sets, sold in the U.S., violated the Antidumping Act of 1916.
Eight U.S. manufacturers and several smaller firms were driven out of business with an estimated loss of $50 million, result of the influx of Japanese TVs.
THE TWO AMERICAN companies said the Japanese firms sold their goods at unusually high prices within Japan to amass a warchest to subsidize their predatory sales practices in the United States.
Years and seven different federal judges later, a U.S. district court ruled there was no evidence a conspiracy existed.
On review, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in December 1983 reversed on the antitrust aspect of the case and ordered the lawsuit to trial. A three-judge appeals court panel held a trial court "might reasonably infer that the allocation of customers (by Japanese companies) in the United States, compulsory standing in Japan, was intended to permit an arbitrator to the effects of dumping upon American competitors while eliminating competition among the Japanese manufacturers in either market."
Selling tapes of newscasts violates copyright statutes
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday let stand a ruling barring outside groups from videotaping and selling the tapes of news programs broadcast on television stations.
The dispute arose when WXIA-1 in Atlanta discovered that a tape of a March 11, 1981, newscast segment had been sold to a Rome, Ga. *junior college*. The segment concerned the student fitness trail" at Floyd Junior College.
The justices refused to hear an appeal from a television monitoring service in Atlanta which argued that it was within federal copyright law and the First Amendment to tape and sell tapes of segments on the TV screen. The court's action was the death knell for the growing new industry.
CAROL DUNCAN, WHO operates the for-profit TV News Clips, sold a copy of the tape for $65 to the school. Duncan's News Clips videotapes news broadcasts of other stations then contacts each person or company to request the newscast segment to see if they want to purchase a copy.
Each tape is labeled: "For personal use only not for rebroadcast."
When WXIA learned of the sale, the television station sued for $50,000 on
grounds the sale was an infringement of copyright. Each broadcast carries a notice of copyright at the program's end.
The station claimed it made available for $100 a copy the same material to any member of the public who wished it. The only exceptions were for "videoclips" that might be used in a lawsuit.
AT TRIAL, DUNCAN testified most of her sales were to customers appearing frequently on television and who want to study their performance to improve their public image.
Her repeat customers include high-level state and federal officials, a defense contractor, a large public utility and a teachers' lobbying group. Some individuals also want to purchase the tape as a souvenir.
Federal courts ruled in favor of the TV station, holding that Duncan's copying activities did not constitute "fair use" of the material. Fair use requires that the station as teacher and research. But the station only won $55 in damages.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Duncan's arguments that she provided a private news reporting service to give the public information. He did so of the material was not productive or creative, a three-judge panel noted, but, instead, was for a commercial purpose.
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