Modern Communications Law »

DONALD E. LIVELY is Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Toledo in Ohio, where he teaches and writes extensively on communications law.

This book provides the most comprehensive and contemporary coverage available of communications law, a subject characterized by rapidly expanding and changing horizons. Broader in focus than any other book on the topic, Modern Communications Law considers the media's communications industry, and content issues.

Preface

Introduction

The Properties and Context of Media

General Constitutional Considerations

Freedom of the Press and Competing Interests

Economic Regulation of the Media Industry

Structural Regulation of the Media

The Newspaper Industry

The Broadcasting Industry

The Cable Industry

The Common Carrier Industry

Content Regulation of the Media

The Print Media

Broadcasting

Cable

Common Carriers

Appendix A: New Technologies

Appendix B: The Communications Act of 1934

Index