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Anyone heard anything on this one?
Dec. 7th, 2004 08:40 pmCaught this from someone on Peter David's blog:
"In an apparent reversal of decades of U.S. practice, recent federal Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations bar American companies from publishing works by dissident writers in countries under sanction unless they first obtain U.S. government approval.
The restriction, condemned by critics as a violation of the First Amendment, means that books and other works banned by some totalitarian regimes cannot be published freely in the United States, a country that prides itself as the international beacon of free expression.
That means everything from "Reading Lolita in Tehran" to "Dr. Zhivago" would have been ILLEGAL to read in the U.S."
"In an apparent reversal of decades of U.S. practice, recent federal Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations bar American companies from publishing works by dissident writers in countries under sanction unless they first obtain U.S. government approval.
The restriction, condemned by critics as a violation of the First Amendment, means that books and other works banned by some totalitarian regimes cannot be published freely in the United States, a country that prides itself as the international beacon of free expression.
That means everything from "Reading Lolita in Tehran" to "Dr. Zhivago" would have been ILLEGAL to read in the U.S."
