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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Number Portability Developing Into a Telemarketing Quagmire

On November 24, 2003 the Federal Communication Commission's ("FCC") number portability rule ("Rule") went into effect in the largest 100 metropolitan statistical areas. The remaining areas will have until May 24, 2004 to comply. In addition to ...
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Opening Meeting Laws

QUESTION 28. -CAN THE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONS VOTE BY SECRET BALLOT FOR THEIR CHAIRMAN? Yes. By specific statute County Boards of Commissioner must vote in the open and their votes recorded by individual except for their vote on who shall serve ...
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Opening Up is Hard to Do

In March 1997, members of a U.S. satellite industry advisory panel to the U.S. Government celebrated passage of the World Trade Organization's Basic Telecommunications Agreement (WTO Agreement), both with relief and in anticipation of new ...
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Overview of Music Law

The term is essentially a sub-species of what is known more generally as "Entertainment Law". Entertainment law is the body of law and legal principles that have developed and evolved in the course of conducting the businesses which are know as ...
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Pacific Quadra casting: New Support For Security Interests In Broadcast Licenses

For companies in the broadcasting, cellular communications and other media businesses, the licenses granted by the Federal Communications Commission (the "FCC") to use the airwaves often comprise their most valuable assets. But the availability of ...
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Political Laws: a Trap for the Unwary

With the passage last year of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (P.L. 104-65), the first Federal lobbying reform in nearly 50 years took effect. In addition, both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate substantially revised their ...
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Practical Guidance for Physicians

The privacy, security, and electronic-data provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA") require the immediate attention of physicians and other "covered entities" to ensure proper compliance. By April 14 ...
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Privacy Issues in a Hi-Tech Workplace

In today's workplace, computers and electronic communications are the norm rather than the exception. Computers, e-mail, electronic databases and on-line research play an important role in many businesses today. While technological advances have ...
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Privacy Law Update

In recent months, the media has been filled with discussions of privacy issues related to the Internet. Public pressure is forcing the U.S. Congress to deal with these issues. In the first of a series on Internet privacy, we summarize the various ...
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Recent Developments in Anti-Slamming Regulation

In our March 28, 2003 DWT Telecom Alert, we advised you of new and significant changes to the FCC's "slamming" rules. Since then, a new Federal Court of Appeals decision and two new FCC actions have thrown the rules of the road in this area into ...
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