COM 4317: Electronic Media Regulation/Dr. David Spiceland

Spring 2012:

• Email Netiquette

Electronic Media Law and Regulation (Kenneth Creech):

• Ch 1: Introduction to the Legal System
• Ch 2: Interpreting the First Amendment
• Ch 3: The Rationale of Broadcast Regulation
• Ch 4: The Rationale of Cable and Satellite (DSS) Television Regulation
• Ch 5: The Broadcast Licensing and Cable Franchising Process. Includes Non-Commercial Broadcasting
• Ch 6: Regulation of Electronic Media Content
• Ch 7: Regulation of Commercial Practices
• Ch 8: Copyright, Music Rights and Trademark
• Ch 9: Privacy and the Electronic Media
• Ch 10: Defamation: Libel and the Media
• Ch 11: Free Press-Fair Trial: A Conflict of Rights
• Ch 12: Communications Regulation: New Technologies and the Internet

Legal Links:

• Communications Act of 1934 (BIG pdf file): www.fcc.gov/Reports/1934new.pdf
• Telecommunications Act of 1996, Pub. LA. No. 104-104, 110 Stat. 56 (1996): ASCII   PDF (large)
• Telecommunications Act of 1996: http://www.fcc.gov/telecom.html

Additional Links:

• Research Links
• Federal Communications Commission
• HD Radio: http://www.ibiquity.com/hdradio/hdradio_hdstations.htm
• Call Letters: http://earlyradiohistory.us/3myst.htm
• Whatever happened to Channel 1? http://www.tech-notes.tv/History&Trivia/Channel%20One/Channel_1.htm
• Communicators: CSpan Oct 8, 2010: http://cspan.org/Watch/Media/2010/10/09/HP/R/39148/Former+FCC+Chairmen+Discuss+Direction+of+the+Broadcast+Industry.aspx
• Net Neutrality

Last updated: 1/16/2012