Modern Communications Law V1, Practitioner Treatise Series

by Harvey L. Zuckman, Robert M. Frieden

Volume One of Three Volume Set. The first comprehensive communications law treatise of the Information Age; keeps user up-to-date on the rapidly changing aspects of communications law. It offers an analysis of the intricate laws and policies relating to new media, the Internet, Direct Broadcasting Satellite, and the Telecommunications Act of 1996. It also examines the key constitutional, statutory, and administrative provisions governing communications in the United States.

Volume 1 Includes:
-First Amendment History, Theory and Application
-First Amendment Traditions and New Communication Technology
-The Commercial Speech Doctrine and Control of Advertising by Private Civil Actions and Public Regulation
-Privacy and Media
-The New Media Law of Defamation
-The Suppression or Control of Obscene, Indecent and Violent Expression

1 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1998