Cartae Sacrorum De Congregatio Americas
Americas Union Charter
Procedures
Article 157 - Communications and Media Code
By this Charter a single, unified and consistent Communications and Media Code shall be formed for the Union and all associated Universities. The Communications and Media Code shall provide the necessary and optimum framework for the management of all communications and media systems and responsibilities.
All existing and new laws providing for communications and media ownership and responsibility shall be subject to inclusion in the Communications and Media Code as one of the thirty three (33) Codes of Law of the Union.
The Communications and Media Code shall be one (1) book structured into chapters, which in turn are divided into articles and then one or more clauses within each article.
The major chapters of the Communications and Media Code shall be:
I. Introductory Provisions
II. Communications Standards and Principles
III. Universal Classification Architecture (UCA)
IV. Universal Technology Industry Standards (UTIS)
V. Universal Number Indexing System (UNIS)
VI. Digital Communications Networks
VII. Digital Communications Devices
VIII. Digital Communications Network Providers
IX. Digital Communications Network Distribution Services
X. Print Communications Networks
XI. Print Communications Objects and Displays
XII. Print Communications Network Providers
XIII. Print Communications Network Distribution Services
XIV. Postal Communications Network
XV. Postal Communications Items
XVI. Postal Communications Network Providers
XVII. Postal Communications Network Distribution Services
XVIII. Communications Content Services
XIX. Communications and Media System Administration
XX. Digital Communications Network Ownership and Agreements
XXI. Digital Communications Network Distribution Ownership and Agreements
XXII. Print Communications Network Ownership and Agreements
XXIII. Print Communications Network Distribution Ownership and Agreements
XXIV. Postal Communications Network Ownership and Agreements
XXV. Postal Communications Network Distribution Ownership and Agreements
XXVI. Content Ownership, Copyright and Licensing
XXVII. Offences and Countermeasures
XXVIII. Universal Forms
XXIX. Universal Communications and Media Forms
While an article may belong to a particular chapter, the numbering of all articles is consecutive so that the entire body of articles of the Communications and Media Code may be read as one, with or without the chapter headings.


