The country is already awash, it says, with immoral material broadcast through satellite television everybody's diversion in a country where public entertainment is almost non-existent.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Many Arabs were shocked and appalled earlier this month when a prominent Saudi cleric declared that it was permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV stations that broadcast "immoral" material.
Les Exploits d'un Jeune Don Juan (The Exploits of a Young Don Juan) by Guillaume Apollinaire is not the first of the French surrealist's books to fall foul of Turkey's strict censorship laws: Rahmi Akda was convicted of publishing obscene or immoral material after he published Les Onze Mille Verges in 1999.
As Moore noted in her ruling Friday, the Federal Circuit requested additional briefings after the decision came down, asking specifically whether there was any reason to treat immoral or scandalous material differently than disparaging material.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office refused to register it, saying it counted as immoral or scandalous material.
That same year the city charged the Body Politic, a homosexual publication, with transmitting indecent, immoral and scurrilous material through the mails in the form of an article called "Men Loving Boys Loving Men". The magazine was acquitted, but the case brought charges of harassment.
It cited language in a federal law known as the Lanham Act directing the agency not to register trademarks containing "immoral" or "scandalous" material.
198, 199 (lottery tickets, gaming devices, books for recording gambling transactions, stolen and embezzled property, forged and counterfeit materials, equipment used for counterfeiting, obscene and immoral literature and materials); Act of February 10 , 1939 53 Stat. 1, 436, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Code, § 3602 (frauds on the revenue); Act of June 28 , 1940 54 Stat.
In Iran, it is illegal for children to use the Internet, and access-providers are required to prevent access to immoral or anti-Iranian material.
At the time, federal trademark law barred registration of material deemed "immoral" or "scandalous". For obvious phonetic reasons, Fuct fit the bill, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which shot down his bid to register the brand.
Shaw coined the term Comstockery, for the strict censorship of material thought to be immoral.
