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Trespassing Speakers and Commodified Speech: First Amendment Freedoms Meet Private Property Claims

Journalism & Mass Communication QuarterlyPublished 1 December 2000
Matthew D. Bunker
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SJR score1.33
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Abstract

Legal claims based upon private property rights are increasingly infringing upon interests in freedom of speech and the free dissemination of information. This essay examines both “real” property claims and intellectual property rights that affect free speech and urges that courts, legislatures, and others carefully scrutinize new attempts to impute trespass liability and commodify information.

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Social Sciences