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Finished movies are guarded by the First Amendment, but the act of filming them on government property isn’t inherently protected activity, according to a Tuesday decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Gordy Price shot his 2018 film Crawford Road on National Park Service land without first obtaining a permit and paying a fee. After its first screening, the Nps cited him with a misdemeanor, which carried a potential sentence of up to six months in prison and a fine. The citation was dropped, but Davis Wright Tremaine First Amendment specialist Robert Corn-Revere took an interest in the matter, and Price in December 2019 sued the U.S. Attorney General (then William Barr) along with officials from the Department of the Interior and National Park Service, challenging the constitutionality of the rule. Thus, Price’s indie movie about...
Finished movies are guarded by the First Amendment, but the act of filming them on government property isn’t inherently protected activity, according to a Tuesday decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Gordy Price shot his 2018 film Crawford Road on National Park Service land without first obtaining a permit and paying a fee. After its first screening, the Nps cited him with a misdemeanor, which carried a potential sentence of up to six months in prison and a fine. The citation was dropped, but Davis Wright Tremaine First Amendment specialist Robert Corn-Revere took an interest in the matter, and Price in December 2019 sued the U.S. Attorney General (then William Barr) along with officials from the Department of the Interior and National Park Service, challenging the constitutionality of the rule. Thus, Price’s indie movie about...
- 8/23/2022
- by Ashley Cullins
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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