Child pornography (CP) is any sexual depiction of a minor. Title 18, Section 2256 of the U.S. Code defines child pornography as “any visual depiction, including any photograph, film, video, picture, or computer or computer-generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means . . .
Commerce refers generally to the activity of exchanging products, goods, and services for financial gain. The word commerce usually is used to mean economic activity broadly on a national or other large scale. Commerce can be used in many contexts but is most commonly used by governments in their constitutions and laws to define the authority of the government to regulate commerce activity.
The Commerce Clause refers to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, which gives Congress the power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, among states, and with the Indian tribes.”
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent executive agency tasked with regulating the telecommunications sector, including radio, television, wire communications, satellite, cable, and the internet. The power of the FCC is laid out in Title 47 of the United States Code.
“Fixed in a tangible medium of expression” is one of the requirements for receiving copyright protection for a work under the Copyright Act in 17 U.S.C. § 102(a). In order to apply for copyright protection, a work must fulfill all the requirements of being fixed in a tangible medium of expression which has different elements that may be confusing for different types of works.
Freedom of the press is the protected right to freely publish communications and expressions of opinions through various forms of media. Freedom of the press limits the government’s control or censorship over the media, except in the most severe national security risk potential.
Media law refers to the regulations of mass media production and use. It includes various types of media forms such as broadcast television, radio, film, internet, and print; however, broadcast media is the most heavily regulated.
Obscenity is a category of speech that is unprotected by the First Amendment's Freedom of Speech and Expression protections. Obscenity laws are concerned with prohibiting lewd, or extremely offensive words or pictures in public. All fifty states have individual laws controlling obscene material.
Payola occurs when a person or entity fails to disclose that they provided or promised to provide money, services, or other consideration in exchange for the inclusion of program matter in a broadcast before the broadcast occurs, in accordance with Section 508 of the Communications Act of 1934. Both the individual or entity providing the money, services, or oth
