47 U.S.C. § 558 — Criminal and civil liability
submitted 92 years ago by Pub. L. 98-549 to r/title-47-TELECOMMUNICATIONS · 89 words · no verdicts yet
This section preserves criminal and civil liability under libel, slander, obscenity, incitement, privacy, false-advertising, and similar laws. It creates an exception for most programming carried on public, educational, governmental, or certain other channels unless the program is obscene.
Nothing in this subchapter is considered to change the criminal or civil liability of cable programmers or cable operators under Federal, State*, or local laws about libel, slander, obscenity, incitement, invasions of privacy, false or misleading advertising, or similar laws. However, a cable operator* is not liable under those laws for a program carried on a public, educational, or governmental channel*, or on another channel obtained under section 532 of this title or similar arrangements, unless the program contains obscene material.
Nothing in this subchapter shall be deemed to affect the criminal or civil liability of cable programmers or cable operators pursuant to the Federal, State*, or local law of libel, slander, obscenity, incitement, invasions of privacy, false or misleading advertising, or other similar laws, except that cable operators shall not incur any such liability for any program carried on any channel* designated for public, educational, governmental use or on any other channel obtained under section 532 of this title or under similar arrangements unless the program involves obscene material.
Source credit: (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VI, § 638, as added Pub. L. 98–549, § 2, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2801; amended Pub. L. 102–385, § 10(d), Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1486.)
- 1934Enacted · Pub. L. 98-549 · 98 Stat. 2801
- 1992Amended · Pub. L. 102-385 · 106 Stat. 1486
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