{"id":1007,"date":"2015-08-04T14:58:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T14:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/?page_id=1007"},"modified":"2020-01-02T17:24:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T17:24:45","slug":"list-of-laws-treaties","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/course\/list-of-laws-treaties\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Laws & Treaties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Law <\/th>Date<\/th>Topic<\/th><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Virginia Declaration of Human Rights (state Constitution)<\/td>1776<\/td> History<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom<\/td>1786<\/td> History<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
US Constitution<\/td>1787<\/td>History & Foundation document of US law<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bill of Rights<\/td>1791<\/td> History - First 10 Amendments to US Constitution<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alien & Sedition Acts<\/td>1798<\/td> History - Intended to stop dissent (Expired 1800)<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Copyright Act of<\/td>1831<\/td> Extended protection to 42 years<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Comstock Laws<\/td>1873<\/td> Prior Restraint - Intended to stop indecency and obscenity<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Berne Convention<\/td>1886<\/td> Copyright International treaty<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sherman Anti-Trust Act<\/td>1890<\/td> Anti-trust regulation of monopolies<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Food & Drug Act<\/td>1906<\/td> Advertising - Establishes Food and Drug Administration<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Copyright Act<\/td>1909<\/td> Extended protection to 56 years also compulsory licensing & musical devices<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Radio Act<\/td>1912<\/td> Broadcasting regulates ship radios (following Titanic disaster)<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Federal Trade Act<\/td>1914<\/td> Advertising - Established Federal Trade Commission<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clayton Anti-Trust Act<\/td>1914<\/td> Anti-trust expands and clarifies Sherman Act<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sedition Act<\/td>1918<\/td> Prior restraint - Intended to stop dissent during WWI<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Radio Act<\/td>1927<\/td> Broadcasting establishes?Federal Radio Commission? begins licensing<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Communications Act<\/td>1934<\/td> Broadcasting sets up Federal Communications Commission? supersedes ?FRC<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Equal Time Rule (Section 313)<\/td>1935<\/td>Broadcasting Political advertising rule by FCC<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lanham Act<\/td>1946<\/td>Advertising and trademarks<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations)<\/td>1947<\/td> International - especially Article 19<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fairness Doctrine<\/td>1949<\/td>Broadcasting (superseded)<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
European Convention on Human Rights<\/td>1953<\/td> International<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act<\/td>1970<\/td> Advertising for tobacco banned on TV - Health warnings mandatory<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Newspaper Preservation Act<\/td>1970<\/td> Anti-trust allowed monopoly newspapers<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Copyright Act<\/td>1976<\/td> Berne convention & author's life + 50<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Childrens Television Act<\/td>1990<\/td> Broadcasting regulated advertising to youngsters<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telecommunications Act<\/td>1996<\/td> Broadcasting restructured broadcast industry<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Communications Decency Act<\/td>1996<\/td>Internet - struck down in Reno v ACLU<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CDA Section 230 <\/td>1997 <\/td> Shields ISPs from liability for 3rd party action <\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act<\/td>1998<\/td> authors's life + 70 & corporate works 95 to 120<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Digital Millennium Copyright Act<\/td>1998<\/td>Copyright protection stronger<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stop Online Piracy Act<\/td>2012 <\/td> Draconian rules against infringement (not passed)<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Food, Drug, Cosmetic Act <\/td>1938<\/td>Advertising -Expanded FDA authority <\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1007","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3235,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1007\/revisions\/3235"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}