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Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to computer-based systems capable of performing functions that typically require human intelligence, such as recognizing patterns, adapting from experience, or making decisions.

Commerce refers generally to the activity of exchanging products, goods, and services for financial gain. The word commerce usually is used to mean economic activity broadly on a national or other large scale. Commerce can be used in many contexts but is most commonly used by governments in their constitutions and laws to define the authority of the government to regulate commerce activity.

The Commerce Clause refers to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, which gives Congress the power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, among states, and with the Indian tribes.”

• commerce clause
• COMMERCE POWER
• interstate commerce
• U.S. CONSTITUTION
• constitutional law

In the interest of U.S.

Communications law is primarily related to the regulation of computer telecommunications, cable, internet, as well as radio and television broadcasting. The federal government has largely governed broadcasting because by its nature, broadcasting transcends state boundaries.

Computer and internet fraud entails the criminal use of a computer or the Internet and can take many different forms. While some argue that “hacking” is a neutral term (see United States v.

• COMPUTER AND INTERNET FRAUD
• fraud
• Internet Law
• internet
• TECHNOLOGY

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent executive agency tasked with regulating the telecommunications sector, including radio, television, wire communications, satellite, cable, and the internet. The power of the FCC is laid out in Title 47 of the United States Code. 

A legal rule set forth by the Federal Trade Commission which prohibits a seller of merchandise from soliciting sales orders by mail or telephone unless it reasonably expects that it can ship the ordered merchandise by either the date included on the solicitation, or if there was no such date, then within 30 days.

The mailbox rule, also called the posting rule, refers to the default rule in contracts law for determining when an offer was accepted. Under the mailbox rule, an offer is considered accepted the moment the offeree mails their letter, rather than when the offeror receives the letter in the mail.

• contracts
• contract law
• offer
• acceptance
• BILATERAL CONTRACTS
• offer contract
• restatements

Obscenity is a category of speech that is unprotected by the First Amendment's Freedom of Speech and Expression protections. Obscenity laws are concerned with prohibiting lewd, or extremely offensive words or pictures in public. All fifty states have individual laws controlling obscene material.