COMM 4024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Color Scheme, Cybersquatting, London Underground Standard Stock
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Read comm & the law p. 199-222. 50-word response due by friday by 11:59. Now we are moving into a new area: federal regulation. Social media and workplace speech: intellectual property. Federal or state law passed by legislature and signed by executive. These statutes dictate the law on specific items: cfr: Federal regulations that focus on specific bureaucratic regulations. These are like federal statutes made by agencies. Statute that is not created in the same way that a federal statute is created: independent agency: Agency that"s head is not a political appointee. They don"t sit on the president"s cabinet: cabinet level agency: Policies change administration to administration depending on the party of the president. Ftc structure: likes to investigate truth in advertising, investigates drug companies that make claims that can"t be substantiated, advertorial/native advertising piece: People put something on social media that the company wants to make look authentic.
