Editor’s Note Commemoration The Federal Communications Law Journal at Sixty By Adrian Cronauer Essay Communications Policy Leadership for the Next Century By Commissioner Michael K. Powell Those of us involved in the communications field realize the dramatic changes and challenges… Read More »Volume 50; 1997-1998 • Issue 3
Editor’s Note Articles First Amendment Trump?: The Uncertain Constitutionalization of Structural Regulation Separating Telephone and Video By Susan Dente Ross The Cable Act of 1984 contained a “cross-ownership” ban, which prohibited telephone companies from entering the local cable video market.… Read More »Volume 50; 1997-1998 • Issue 2
Editor’s Note Articles Property Rights, Reliance, and Retroactivity Under the Communications Act Of 1934 By William L. Fishman Although the FCC and courts have concluded that licensees have certain property interests in their licenses, they do not acquire any ownership… Read More »Volume 50; 1997-1998 • Issue 1
Editor’s Note Articles Digital Television and the Allure of Auctions: The Birth and Stillbirth of DTV Legislation By Ellen P. Goodman Although relatively few provisions of the 1996 Telecommunication Act relate to digital broadcast television, these provisions have contributed to the ongoing… Read More »Volume 49; 1996-1997 • Issue 3
Editor’s Note Articles Ideas of the Marketplace: A Guide to The 1996 Telecommunications Act by Michael I. Meyerson Far Is Too Far? The Line Between “Offensive” and “Indecent” Speech by Milagros Rivera-Sanchez Regulating Competition in the Interexchange Telecommunications Market: The… Read More »Volume 49; 1996-1997 • Issue 2
Editor’s Note Articles The Telecommunications Act of 1996 by Thomas G. Krattenmaker The author discusses the primary motivating factors behind the 1996 Telecommunications Act, examines how these factors influenced the final law, and critiques the Act by examining whether it… Read More »Volume 49; 1996-1997 • Issue 1
Editor’s Note Report of the Subcommittee on Legal Opinions of the Transactional Practice Committee of the Federal Communications Bar Association The Federal Communications Bar Association created an Ad Hoc Committee on Opinion Letters to create and develop materials to assist… Read More »Volume 48; 1995-1996 • Issue 3
Articles Whither Goest NTIA? The Fate of a Federal Telecommunications Agency by Richard E. Wiley and Paul E. Misener In the past year, Congress has sealed the fate of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Although President Clinton has… Read More »Volume 48; 1995-1996 • Issue 2
Proceedings From Conduit to Content: The Emergence of Information Policy and Law Welcoming Remarks and Statement of the Issues The creation, manipulation, transmission, storage, and use of information constitute the United States’ and the world’s largest economic sector, affecting almost… Read More »Volume 48; 1995-1996 • Issue 1
Articles Give Peace a Chance: FCC-State Relations After California III by Jonathan Jacob Nadler Vertical Integration and Program Access in the Cable Television Industry by David Waterman People Do Read Large Ads: The Law of Advertising from Outer Space by… Read More »Volume 47; 1994-1995 • Issue 3