TRF 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: 2 Live Crew, Hardcore Pornography, United States Code
22 Feb 2018
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U. s. government suppressed for release for six months. How to guides: (cid:862)hit ma(cid:374): a tech(cid:374)ical guide to i(cid:374)depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)t co(cid:374)tracti(cid:374)g(cid:863) Title 18 of the united states code, section 1464, prohibits the utterance of any obscene, indecent or profane language by means of radio communication. The supreme court has indicated that this test is designed to cover hardcore pornography. (slaps test) Lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value: applies to singular market, local. Safe harbor: between hours of 10pm and 6am, you can get away with things more easily. Senders -- tv and radio licensees, corporate mergers, copyright owners. Encoding and decoding -- standards for color tv, dtv, hdtv, phone services. The channel -- licensing broadcasters, frequency allocation, cable franchising, phone rates and services. The federal communications commission (fcc) regulates broadcasting, telecommunications, The federal trade commission (ftc) - regulates advertising, and anti-trust. Department of justice - enforces antitrust laws.
