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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Communications Law Articles
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Mandatory Student Activity Fees Used to Support Student Organizations Which Engage in Political or Idealogical Activity Violate the First Amendment Rights of Objecting Students
In a decision which may significantly impact the right of colleges and universities to assess mandatory student activity fees, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the University of Wisconsin-Madison's student activity fee policy, as ...
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Maryland’s Year 2000 Technology Initiative: June 2000
On April 25, 2000, Maryland Governor Parris N. Glendening signed into law multiple pieces of legislation designed to develop, promote, regulate, study and manage technology. The combined effect of this legislation is to make Maryland more attractive ...
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Millennium Mayhem: Lawyers Prepare for Y2K Legal Issues
We've all heard about it. Some people fear it and others dismiss it, but almost every citizen of a modern country will be affected by it in some way or another. The year 2000 computer glitch, sometimes referred to as the "Millennium Bug" or simply ...
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More Than Just E-Mail: Comprehensive Information Policies for the Digital Age
Labor & Employment Practice Because the information superhighway has knocked down the physical walls that once reliably protected confidential, proprietary and trade secret information, employers doing business today need much more than a policy ...
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Most Recent Opinions Allow Lawyers to Send Client Confidences by E-Mail
A growing number of jurisdictions have concluded that lawyers may ethically use ordinary, unencrypted electronic mail to transmit client confidences. The District of Columbia, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania have recently agreed. These ethics ...
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NARUSCA v. FCC: Federalism, Line Item Billing, and the Future of Wireless Consumer Protection
States can regulate line items in customer billing for cellular wireless services. Thus spoke the U.S. Supreme Court, it seems, when it refused to hear National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates v. F.C.C. The denial of certiorari left ...
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Net Breeds Privacy Issues
The law frequently can't keep pace with technology, and the Internet is no exception. Other than on a handful of college campuses, the Net didn't exist in 1986 when the Electronic Communications Privacy Act was enacted. Written mainly to extend the ...
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New Developments in State Statutes Governing Unsolicited Commercial
In the last few weeks there have been significant developments regarding state statutes governing unsolicited commercial e-mail. As discussed below, a California court held provisions of that state’s statute unconstitutional. In Colorado, the ...
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New FCC Order Liberalizes the International Settlement Rate Rules for Telecommunication Carriers
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") has recently amended its International Settlements Policy ("ISP"), which applies to all rate agreements between U.S. and foreign telecommunications carriers for the termination of international ...
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Notice of Electronic Monitoring
"An Act Requiring Notice to Employees of Electronic Monitoring By Employees," Substitute House Bill No. 5398, File No. 641. This Act, approved by Connecticut's House and Senate, will require employers who engage in electronic monitoring to give ...
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