Indie Producers Squeezed Out of TV, GAO Confirms TV broadcast networks and major cable operators with ownership stakes in cable channels continue to squeeze independent TV producers and channels off the air, the Government Accountability Office reports. Creative Voices was pleased to have worked with GAO to document in this important report the chokehold that Big Media has over access to television. (More»)
Creative Voices gives the FCC a standing ovation for its National Broadband Plan, which will unleash billions of dollars in economic development, create over a million jobs, enhance America’s global competitiveness, deliver superior health care and education, reduce energy consumption and environmental degradation, improve public safety and homeland security, reinvigorate democracy, and connect artists directly with their audience, enabling more high quality media choices at lower cost.
CV Files Comments w/FCC Advocating Open Internet CV filed comments today in the FCC's Open Internet proceeding calling on the Commission to establish clear rules protecting the right of content creators to provide -- and consumers to access -- the Internet content of their choice without restraint or impairment by the Internet Service Provider. This principle of Network Neutrality is crucial for free expression and the future of the Internet. (More»)
CV Applauds FCC Decision to Sanction Comcast and Promote Open Internet for All Creative Voices applauds today’s FCC decision to protect and promote an open Internet where consumers have the freedom to access the lawful Internet content of their choice and use the lawful applications of their choice. The FCC decision today marked an important victory in the battle over whether consumers will have the freedom to enjoy the full Internet, or whether they will they be restricted to visiting sites approved by – or in business with – the cable, telephone, or media conglomerate “gatekeeper” that provides broadband Internet access.
Because extreme media consolidation and concentration have eliminated so many independent voices and visions from America’s mainstream media, a growing number of creative artists now share their video, music, and creative visions directly with their audience over the Internet. Today’s FCC decision protects these artists from discrimination by broadband providers, promoting more independent and diverse voices in our media.
Creative Voices Files Brief at Supreme Court Arguing that FCC Indecency Decisions are Unconstitutional Creative Voices today filed its brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Fox v. FCC arguing that the FCC's violated the First Amendment when it ruled that the "fleeting expletives" uttered by Cher, Nicole Ritchie, and Bono were "indecent." As an intervening party in the case, Creative Voices argued that the FCC's arbitrary enforcement of its indecency rules has created an unconstitutional "chilling effect" on free speech and expression that harms creative artists and the general public. (More»)
CV Applauds Overturning of FCC's Janet Jackson Fine Creative Voices applauds the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruling for the second time that the Federal Communications Commission’s indecency decision and $550,000 fine against CBS in the Janet Jackson Super Bowl halftime case were “arbitrary and capricious,” and therefore unlawful. (More»)
FCC NYPD Blue Fine Held Unconstitutional The FCC's fines against NYPD Blue were found unconstitutional by the Court of Appeals based on its recent decision in Fox v. FCC. The Court agreed with CV that the Commission's arbitrary and capricious indecency policy put creative, challenging, controversial, non-homogenized broadcast television programming at risk. (More»)
FCC Indecency Policy Unconstitutional, 2nd Circuit Rules CV applauds the ruling of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Fox v FCC that the FCC policy on broadcast indecency is unconstitutional and harms not only creative media artists, but the American public. In its well-reasoned decision, the Court cited several examples found in CV's Big Chill white paper of the "chilling effect" of the FCC's actions. (More»)
Creative Voices Publications
REPORT: The Case For Universal Broadband in America: Now! Today, more than three years after President Bush made universal broadband “in every corner of America by 2007" an explicit goal of his administration, millions of Americans are still without broadband access to the Internet. Other areas have access only to low quality "fraudband" that is so slow, unreliable or unaffordable that it fails to meet other countries’ definitions of broadband, and fails to provide the benefits that President Bush described when he established the goal.
All Americans will benefit from fast, reliable, affordable, universal and open broadband access to the Internet. Our Report, The Case for Universal Broadband in America: Now! tells why.
Creative Voices' Comments to FCC in 2006 Media Ownership Proceeding Misguided FCC media ownership policies harm competition, diversity of viewpoints, and localism – the Commission’s key policy goals in regulating media ownership – and prevent the American public from receiving better broadcast television, the Center for Creative Voices in Media told the Commission in comments filed today. Read the Comments and our Press Release. (More»)
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Creative Voices 3Q Newsletter The Presidential election, our upcoming Supreme Court "indecency" argument, opportunity knocking on media consolidation, and a key Net Neutrality victory -- read all about it in our 3Q newsletter. (More»)
Creative Voices 1Q 2008 Newsletter We report on our indecency case going to the Supreme Court, the fight against media consolidation, and our work on Internet Freedom and Net Neutrality. (More»)
Creative Voices Advocates Open Internet on Media Minutes - AUDIO On the March 21, 2008 edition of Media Minutes, we explain why Creative Voices supports an open Internet, and why the MPAA's claim that an open Internet promotes piracy is a smoke screen for its real agenda; to control the distribution of video content over the Internet, harming independent media makers and the general public. (More»)
About Us
The Center for Creative Voices in Media
is dedicated to preserving in America’s
media the original, independent, and
diverse creative voices that enrich our nation’s
culture and safeguard its democracy.
The Center for Creative Voices in Media
is dedicated to preserving in America’s
media the original, independent, and
diverse creative voices that enrich our nation’s
culture and safeguard its democracy.