Second Class for the Second Time: How the Commercial Speech Doctrine Stigmatizes Commercial Use of Aggregated Public Records

Authors

Brian N. Larson, Texas A&M University School of LawFollow
Genelle I. Belmas

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2007

Journal Title

South Carolina Law Review

ISSN

0038-3104

Abstract

This Article argues that access to aggregated electronic public records for commercial use should receive protection under the First Amendment in the same measure as the speech acts the access supports. In other words, we view commercial access to aggregated public records as an essential means to valuable speech. For many, however, the taint of the commercial speech doctrine is turning all “information flows” into commercial ones. This, in turn, is threatening the access to government records.

First Page

935

Last Page

994

Num Pages

60

Volume Number

58

Issue Number

4

Publisher

University of South Carolina School of Law

Recommended Citation

Brian N. Larson & Genelle I. Belmas, Second Class for the Second Time: How the Commercial Speech Doctrine Stigmatizes Commercial Use of Aggregated Public Records, 58 S.C. L. Rev. 935 (2007).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/827

File Type

PDF