E-M Law & Regulation: (Kenneth Creech) 5th Ed-2007

Chapter 6: Regulation of Electronic Media Content

Terms:

• channeling
• Children’s Television Act of 1990
• Notice of Apparent Liability (NAL)
• nuisance rationale
• quarterly programs-issues list
• raised eye enforcement
• respondeat superior
• safe harbor
• SSLAPS test
• subliminal messages
• Televised violence
• topless radio
• V-Chip
• War of the Worlds broadcast

Web sites:

• FCC: obscene, indecent and profane material primer: http://www.fcc.gov/eb/oip
• Regulating obscenity: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/obscenity.htm
• Section 1464: http://www.vlex.us/codes/section/2300-1017&desc_01.51&docum_19190574
• Supreme Court: http://www.oyez.org
• Federal and State Obscenity Statutes: http://www.moralityinmedia.org/nolc/index.htm?statutesIndex.htm (Click on North Carolina)
• College Broadcasters Resource Page: FCC cases of indecency: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~willr/cb/indecentx.shtml
• FCC: Review of Broadcast Ownership Rules: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/reviewrules.html

• DeFilippo v. NBC (CA, RI), 8 Med.L.Rptr. 1872 (1982)
• Eastern Educational Radio (WUHY-FM), 24 F.C.C.2d 408, 18 R.R.2d 860(1970)
• FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U.S. 726 (1978)
• In the Matter of (Complaints against various Television Licensees File No. EB-04-IH-0011) concerning their February 1, 2004 Broadcast of the Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Show NAL/Acct. No. 200432080212 (March 15, 2006)
• Luke Records Inc. v. Navarro (CA 11 Cir., 1992)
• Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973)
• New Indecency Enforcement Standards to Be Applied to All Broadcast and Amateur Radio Licenses, 2 FCC Rcd. 2726 (1987)
• Olivia v. NBC, 7 Med.L.Rptr. 2539 (1981)
• Primer on Ascertainment of Community Problems (1971)
• Skywalker Records Inc. v. Navarro (DC So.Fla., 1990)
• Sonderling Broadcasting Corp. (WGLD-FM), 27 R.R.2d 285 (FCC, 1973)
• Vance v. Judas Priest (DC 2 Nev., 1990)
• Weirum v. RKO General, 15 Cal.3d 40 (1975)
• Yale Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, U.S. Ct.App. DC, 478 F.2d 594 (1973), cert. denied 414 U.S. 914 (1973)
• Zamora v. CBS (DC Dla., 1979)

• Start here: Information on Children's Programming: http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/kidvid/prod/kv_info.htm
• FCC Form 398 Query: http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/prod/kidvid/prod/query1.htm
• FCC Form 398 Filers: (get the contact name/phone number): http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/kidvid/prod/filersq.htm
• Children's Television Information System User's Manual: http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/kidvid/prod/man_inf.htm

Questions:

• Can broadcasters be held accountable if audience members are harmed after viewing programming?
• How does obscenity differ from indecency?
• How would YOU define profanity? ...indecency? ...obscenity?
• How does the FCC handle station hoaxes?
• Is indecency regulation simply a question of not "offending"
• On what basis was Pacifica II determined?
• On what basis were many of indecency cases decided?
• To what extent can/does the FCC regulate song lyrics?
• What are some of the elements relating to the "Janet Jackson" wardrobe malfunction case?
• What are the FCC guidelines for filing an indecency complaint?
• What are some ways law and/or regulation can be enforced?
• Who in society (if anyone) needs to be specially protected from indecent material?
• Why were the voluntary NAB codes dropped?
• Why is obscenity NOT protected?