Communications Law

This is FindLaw’s collection of Communications Law articles, part of the Corporate Counsel Center Law Library. Communications law is concerned with the regulation of radio and TV broadcasting to ensure satisfactory service and to prevent chaos. The law covers a variety of issues – media law, First Amendment, cable and broadcasting law, computer and internet law, and telecommunications. The federal government has largely governed broadcasting because by its nature broadcasting transcends state boundaries. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.

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Internet Infrastructure Issues: Regulation and Un-Regulation of The “Pipes” That Provide The Internet

The Internet is evolving at an astonishing rate. Few, if any, of its original creators could have envisioned the multitude of uses and the growing reliance on the .network of networks.. With this increased dependance is a concomitant desire for ...
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Internet Law Update: Developments in Privacy Law: 1999

The last several years have witnessed an increasingly intense debate over the rights of individuals to protect the privacy of their personal data. That debate is fueled in part, but not exclusively, by growing concern over the privacy of ...
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Internet Legal Issues: WWW Privacy Policy Part I

As we enter the new millennium the World Wide Web ("WWW"), because it collects and disseminates personal information, significantly impacts many personal privacy issues and concerns. One major concern of privacy advocates is that when one travels ...
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Labor & Employment: April 1999

Employees spend a significant portion of their day at work, and increasingly communicate by electronic mail, Internet or voice mail systems. Every employer, however, has heard stories about employees downloading pornography, e-mailing confidential ...
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Latest FCC Modifications on Slamming

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released the fifth in a series of orders since 1998 modifying its rules relating to "slamming" (the unauthorized changing of a subscriber's telecommunications service provider). In the process ...
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Law Catches Up With E-Commerce

Business-to-consumer and business-to-business e-commerce has become a fact of life for most businesses. Even those businesses that, at the beginning of the Internet phenomenon, were reluctant to participate now include e-commerce as a regular part ...
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Less Than Six Months until Y2k: Is Your Business Compliant?

With January 1, 2000 less than 200 days away, businesses around the world are scrambling to re-align their systems and services to be Y2K compliant. Small Businesses are particularly vulnerable to Y2K failures, says Fred Hochberg, deputy ...
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Life, Law and the Pursuit of Balance

Lawyers today must use computers to compete effectively with other lawyers. Ten years ago, relatively few lawyers used computers. If you asked a lawyer in 1986 if he was computerized and he answered "yes," most likely his idea of computerization ...
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Litigation Corner

A recent survey found that labor and employment-related litigation is a top concern of many companies. In response we have created this Litigation Corner and will from time-to-time provide our readers with practical suggestions for reducing their ...
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Locking The Virtual Door: Privacy Matters In E-Commerce

The SAXLAW Report Spring/Summer 1999 "On one side is our desire for freedom. On the other, our need for security" --Paul Hoffert, One of the many setbacks in the advance of e-Commerce has been fear due to a lack of privacy and the misuse of ...
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