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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Georgia Open Records Act: Three Steps To Responding To Open Records Requests
FindLaw's synopsis of the Georgia Open Records Act and the process for obtaining public records from state agencies.
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Can an Employer Monitor the Telephone Calls of an Employee Who the Employer Believes is Revealing Confidential Company Trade Secrets?
FindLaw's discussion of the extent to which employers may legally monitor employees in an effort to protect trade secrets.
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Intercepting Wire And Oral Communications
FindLaw's look at wiretapping statutes in Tennessee and Virginia and issues related to consent and to how key terms such as "recording" and "intercepting" are defined.
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Governor Ridge Signs Pennsylvania Electronic Transactions Act
FindLaw's review of the background of Pennsylvania's Electronic Transactions Law and the evolving issues related to electronic transactions.
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Freedom Of Speech In The Workplace: The First Amendment Revisited
FindLaw's analysis of whether speech protections under the First Amendment apply in a given workplace.
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An Electronic Voyage of Discovery
The smoking gun. More often than not, that’s how e-mail is perceived by lawyers on both sides of litigation. Consider the example of the deleted e-mail recovered by a computer consultant, in which a company president wrote to an employee’s manager ...
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An Examination of the Criminalization of Commercial Activity
In the days and weeks following the dramatic collapse of energy giant Enron, the calls for legislation designed to avert "the next Enron" began. In recent months, numerous legislative and regulatory proposals have been put forward, and government ...
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Antitrust Regulators Scrutinizing Radio Transactions
During the past year, the radio industry has experienced an unprecedented wave of mergers and acquisitions. The dramatic changes in station ownership were made possible by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the "Telecommunications Act"), which ...
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Apres Napster, Le Deluge
Unless you've been living under a rock this year, you will have heard of Napster, the extremely popular music swapping software program. Napster users, many of them kids and teens, can exchange music in a digital format over the Internet. Recently ...
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Are Class Action Lawyers Systematically Targeting Regulated Industries?
: On June 20 of this year, the Second Circuit decided a case called Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko v. Bell Atlantic Corp., the so-called Trinko case, which, we believe, radically changed the antitrust law in two respects: it expanded the scope of ...
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