Corporate Personhood and Commercial Speech Regulation
The Voice Signature - The Legal and Ethical Problems Selected: Corporate Personhood and Commercial Speech Regulation As a Strategic Communications major, I found this topic to hit close to home. As I learn and prepare to enter the workforce, it’s going to be important to balance marketing, corporate brand messaging, advertising claims, and social media campaigns against regulatory requirements. When we covered the Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad case, and the Mutual Film Corporation doctrine, it was really interesting on the legal definition of “Corporate Personhood”. The idea that companies have the right to support their interest but also have to follow strict regulations against deceptive advertising. I never thought about how much the law would influence marketing within a company. Not only the law, but the ethics, and doing the right thing behind it. Why I chose the topic - I didn’t know that there were so many connections through laws...