Thursday, October 20, 2011

Protected or Limited?

Today while driving home from school, there was a commercial that had a very realistic siren playing during it. As my friends and I heard this, we were confused whether they should be allowed to play that on the radio, because many people could think of it as an actual siren.


This reminded me back to the day in class earlier this month, where we were given scenarios and had to determine if it was a protected or limited right.


Should that be allowed in a commercial that most people hear while driving in their car? It is a very similar scenario to the one in class, which was someone shouting fire in a situation that would cause panic, such as in a movie theatre. This turned out to be limited, so shouldn't a siren playing during a commercial be treated similarly?


This is certainly a situation that I think could cause panic to the driver, so I think that it should be limited just like the movie theatre scenario.

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