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Employee And Independent Contractors: Legal Implications Of Conversion From One To The Other, Allan L. Bioff, Robert E. Paul Jan 1982

Employee And Independent Contractors: Legal Implications Of Conversion From One To The Other, Allan L. Bioff, Robert E. Paul

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

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As Interactive Cable Enters, Does Privacy Go Out The Window, Gary Selvin Jan 1982

As Interactive Cable Enters, Does Privacy Go Out The Window, Gary Selvin

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

Interactive cable will provide consumers with the ability to bank, shop, attend classes, respond to polls, view programs and attend to other daily activities from the home through a television set linked to a computer. Storage of this personal information poses a privacy concern relating to the government's ability to search the records as part of criminal investigations. The author analogizes current law in forecasting possible judicial treatment of Fourth Amendment protection and suggests possible methods for establishing a clear standard which would maximize subscriber protection.

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Law, Medicine And The Mass Media: Uneasy Partners, Bernard Rubin Jan 1982

Law, Medicine And The Mass Media: Uneasy Partners, Bernard Rubin

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

Restraints have long been imposed on speech and advertising by doctors and lawyers with the result that members of these professions have traditionally feared publicity. Modern times, however, witness increasing exposure of the professions in the media. The author examines the traditional restraints, First Amendment implications, and the performance of the media in presenting legal and medical issues. He proposes new standards for medical and legal reporters and reports, and concludes that involvement in public debate should be part of satisfactory professional conduct.

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Media Access To Videotape Evidence In Criminal Trials, Geoffrey Robinson Jan 1982

Media Access To Videotape Evidence In Criminal Trials, Geoffrey Robinson

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

A peripheral but hotly contested issue in the Abscam trials was whether the media could copy and broadcast the videotapes entered into evidence. This issue requires balancing of the defendant's fair trial rights against interests closely analogous to those protected by the First Amendment. This note suggests the lines upon which analysis of the conflicting interests should run, and argues for a strong presumption in favor of access.

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Impact Of New Technology On Existing Bargaining Units In The Newspaper Industry, Martin R. Ganzglass Jan 1982

Impact Of New Technology On Existing Bargaining Units In The Newspaper Industry, Martin R. Ganzglass

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

No abstract provided.

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Double-Breasted Operations - Construction Tool Being Used In Broadcast Industry, Mary Ellen Krug Jan 1982

Double-Breasted Operations - Construction Tool Being Used In Broadcast Industry, Mary Ellen Krug

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Copyright Notice Requirement - Deliberate Omission Of Notice, Warren L. Patton, John C. Hogan Jan 1982

The Copyright Notice Requirement - Deliberate Omission Of Notice, Warren L. Patton, John C. Hogan

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

This article discusses the effect, under the current Copyright Act, of deliberate omission of copyright notice from a published work. The authors assert that although Congress intended to minimize the significance of the notice requirement in the new statute, an ambiguity in the statutory language has resulted in an uncertainty about the copyright status of a work when the author deliberately omits the copyright notice. The article discusses the conflict between Professor Nimmer's opinion on the issue and the decision of a federal district court in O'Neill Development, Inc. v. Galen Kilburn, Inc. The authors conclude that notice within five …

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Commercialization Of Public Broadcasting, Craig Austin Dunagan Jan 1982

Commercialization Of Public Broadcasting, Craig Austin Dunagan

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

Public broadcasters have increasingly turned to commercial revenue raising devices as a means of financing station operations. This comment discusses some of those devices, which are in reality subtle forms of advertising. The comment demonstrates that the quest for financing has led public broadcasters along the same path taken by commercial broadcasters, a path which ends with the adoption of commercials as a means of financing station operations. The comment focuses upon the policy issues, rather than the practical consequences, of allowing public broadcasters to engage in such commercial practices.

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Closed To The Media: The Defendant's Right Of Privacy In The Preliminary Examination, Joseph A. Wynne Jan 1982

Closed To The Media: The Defendant's Right Of Privacy In The Preliminary Examination, Joseph A. Wynne

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

This note examines the standard of probable cause as the sole justification for prosecutorial intrusion on the individual's privacy. It argues that, given California's express constitutional guaranty of a right to privacy, the defendant in a criminal prosecution should not be forced to defend himself in a public forum until after probable cause for a trial has been established at the preliminary examination.

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The First Amendment And "Scalping" By A Financial Columnist: May A Newspaper Article Be Commercial Speech?, Bruce A. Kohn Jan 1982

The First Amendment And "Scalping" By A Financial Columnist: May A Newspaper Article Be Commercial Speech?, Bruce A. Kohn

Indiana Law Journal

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Regulation Of Cable Television In The United States, Michael Botein Jan 1982

Regulation Of Cable Television In The United States, Michael Botein

Articles & Chapters

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Human Rights And The Free Flow Of Information, Lung-Chu Chen Jan 1982

Human Rights And The Free Flow Of Information, Lung-Chu Chen

Articles & Chapters

"Human Rights and the Free Flow of Information." This topic immediately raises three key questions: the appropriate conception of human rights; the scope and reach of freedom of information; and finally, the bearing of one upon the other.

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Capitalizing On National Self-Interest: The Management Of International Telecommunication Conflict By The International Telecommunication Union, Donna Coleman Gregg Jan 1982

Capitalizing On National Self-Interest: The Management Of International Telecommunication Conflict By The International Telecommunication Union, Donna Coleman Gregg

Scholarly Articles

This article will examine the potential for conflict and the need for international cooperation in the contemporary telecommunication industry, with a particular focus on the role of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in international conflict management. After addressing particular aspects of modern telecommunication which invite international conflict, the article will present an overview of the ITU as the principal instrumentality for maintaining world order in telecommunication. The Union's importance in conflict prevention, dispute resolution, and arbitration will be analyzed in detail. Finally, this article will assess the success of the ITU in conflict management and evaluate the need for change …

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Metromedia, Inc. V. City Of San Diego: A Bifurcated Approach To Billboard Regulation And The First Amendment, Eric L. Rosedale Jan 1982

Metromedia, Inc. V. City Of San Diego: A Bifurcated Approach To Billboard Regulation And The First Amendment, Eric L. Rosedale

Cardozo Law Review

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Regulating Cable Television, Nicholas P. Miller, Alan Beals Dec 1981

Regulating Cable Television, Nicholas P. Miller, Alan Beals

Washington Law Review

The evolution of cable television from a community antenna television (CATV) system carrying only broadcast signals to a high capacity communications system carrying a wide variety of television and nonvideo services raises significant policy and legal questions about the role of government regulation of cable. Congress has recently considered legislation that would limit the ability of local governments to regulate the local cable franchise. Such legislation and the trend of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reduce federal regulation of electronic media underscore the need for a clear definition of the appropriate regulatory role for government. To determine the appropriate …

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Pay Television And Section 605 Of The Communications Act Of 1934: A Need For Congressional Action Sep 1981

Pay Television And Section 605 Of The Communications Act Of 1934: A Need For Congressional Action

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Agudat Derekh Eretz V. Broadcasting Authority, Moshe Landau, Aharon Barak, Meir Shamgar, Moshe Bejski, Miriam Ben-Porat Jul 1981

Agudat Derekh Eretz V. Broadcasting Authority, Moshe Landau, Aharon Barak, Meir Shamgar, Moshe Bejski, Miriam Ben-Porat

Translated Opinions

The Elections (Modes of Propaganda) Law, 1959, provides free radio and television broadcasting time for each of the party lists participating in the Knesset elections. Until 1981, that Law provided that each such party shall receive 25 minutes on the radio and 10 minutes on television, and that each party represented in the outgoing Knesset shall receive an additional four minutes radio time and four minutes television time in respect of each of its members in the outgoing Knesset. An amendment of that Law in 1981 reduced the time allotted to each party participating in the election to 23 minutes …

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Cable Television In Massachusetts, Padraig O'Malley Apr 1981

Cable Television In Massachusetts, Padraig O'Malley

McCormack Graduate School General Publications (active until 2013)

Today the electromagnetic spectrum is crowded with signal traffic used for just about every conceivable communications purpose, ranging from standard navigational time signals at the Very Low Frequency band to satellite communications at the Superhigh Frequency band. Between these two frequency extremes there are five other frequency bands — Low Frequency, Medium Frequency, High Frequency, Very High Frequency, and Ultra High Frequency — each of which can accommodate only a limited number of uses, and each of which is better suited for some uses than for others. Because the spectrum was, like oil, once believed to be in almost unlimited …

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The Privacy Protection Act Of 1980: Curbing Unrestricted Third-Party Searches In The Wake Of Zurcher V. Stanford Daily, Jose M. Sariego Apr 1981

The Privacy Protection Act Of 1980: Curbing Unrestricted Third-Party Searches In The Wake Of Zurcher V. Stanford Daily, Jose M. Sariego

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This article analyzes the Privacy Protection Act as a response to Zurcher. Part I discusses the Zurcher decision and its effect on First and Fourth Amendment rights, as well as its impact on state testimonial privileges. Part II critically examines key features of the statute, focusing on the parties and materials protected, the police practices regulated, the remedies provided for violations, and the Act's constitutional underpinnings. Part II also offers suggestions for remedying the problems the Act currently presents. The article concludes that the Privacy Protection Act, while a necessary first step to minimizing the impact of Zurcher, is …

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Mandatory Programming Rules For Children's Television, Donna Roberson Jan 1981

Mandatory Programming Rules For Children's Television, Donna Roberson

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Fcc's New Equation For Radio Programming: Consumer Wants - Public Interest, Jerry V. Haines Jan 1981

The Fcc's New Equation For Radio Programming: Consumer Wants - Public Interest, Jerry V. Haines

Duquesne Law Review

The recent Federal Communications Commission deregulation of many aspects of radio station programming raises the recurrent issue of how intensively the FCC should regulate the programming of its broadcast licensees. The author summarizes the historical development of the Commission's programming authority, the factors which have encouraged the Commission to change its stance regarding informational programming, and the probability of impediments to the deregulation. The landmark Red Lion case is the most formidable legal barrier, he concludes, but there also are pragmatic, statutory, and philosophical considerations that should be examined.

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Rewriting The 1934 Communications Act, 1976-1980: A Case Study Of The Formulation Of Communications Policy, Erwin G. Krasnow, Herbert A. Terry, Lawrence D. Longley Jan 1981

Rewriting The 1934 Communications Act, 1976-1980: A Case Study Of The Formulation Of Communications Policy, Erwin G. Krasnow, Herbert A. Terry, Lawrence D. Longley

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

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Abuse Of The Equal Opportunities Doctrine By Presidential Incumbents, Martine Safran Jan 1981

Abuse Of The Equal Opportunities Doctrine By Presidential Incumbents, Martine Safran

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

This note examines the history of the equal opportunity doctrine, 47 U.S.C. § 315, and its abuse by presidential incumbents during re-election campaigns. The author proposes that the FCC should adopt a news-worthiness criterion in enforcing the equal time doctrine, and discard the "legally qualified candidate's" public announcement requirement, and that the fairness and equal opportunities doctrines be incorporated into one statutory provision.

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From Estes To Chandler: The Distinction Between Television And Newspaper Trial Coverage, David Tajgman Jan 1981

From Estes To Chandler: The Distinction Between Television And Newspaper Trial Coverage, David Tajgman

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

No abstract provided.

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Regulating Cable Television, Nicholas P. Miller, Alan Beals Jan 1981

Regulating Cable Television, Nicholas P. Miller, Alan Beals

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

No abstract provided.

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New Communications Technology: The Emerging Antitrust Agenda, Michael Botein Jan 1981

New Communications Technology: The Emerging Antitrust Agenda, Michael Botein

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

No abstract provided.

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Extension Of The Federal Communications Commission's Jurisdiction To The Television Networks, Lance S. Davidson Jan 1981

Extension Of The Federal Communications Commission's Jurisdiction To The Television Networks, Lance S. Davidson

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

The Federal Communications Commission's enabling statute, the Communications Act of 1934, provides no statutory authority for the regulation of the television networks. Nonetheless, with judicial approval, the FCC indirectly regulates the networks via its licensing authority over broadcast stations affiliated with the networks and has even promulgated rules by which it directly regulates the networks. This article reviews the case law focusing on the FCC's extension of its jurisdiction to the television networks and to cable television, which is similarly unreferenced in the Act. The article argues that the FCC should have consistent jurisdiction to regulate the cable and broadcast …

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Communications Behind Bars: Are We Finally Applying The Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy Test To Custodial Conversations, Lynn Soodik Jan 1981

Communications Behind Bars: Are We Finally Applying The Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy Test To Custodial Conversations, Lynn Soodik

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

This note examines the propriety of surreptitious and nonjudicially authorized electronic surveillance of suspects, pretrial detainees, and incarcerated persons during conversations with persons other than interrogating police officers. After discussing the rationale courts have used to deny prisoners protections in their conversations, this note analyzes the California appellate court decision of Robinson v. Superior Court, which held that conversations between spouses are protected by the United States and California Constitutions. Robinson was granted a hearing by the California Supreme Court on June 25, 1980. The author urges that Robinson be upheld, but argues that the decision should be based solely …

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Libel Law In The Twenty-First Century: Defamation And The Electronic Newspaper, Stephen R. Hofer Jan 1981

Libel Law In The Twenty-First Century: Defamation And The Electronic Newspaper, Stephen R. Hofer

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

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Stacked Competition And Phony Deregulation For At&(And)T: The Proposed Telecommunications Competition And Deregulation Act Of 1981, Louis B. Schwartz Jan 1981

Stacked Competition And Phony Deregulation For At&(And)T: The Proposed Telecommunications Competition And Deregulation Act Of 1981, Louis B. Schwartz

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

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