Extinta Lei de Imprensa sobrevive no Código Brasileiro de Telecomunicações

Abstract

Corporatism has been the signature of Brazilian broadcast when the subject in discussion at National Congress, and even among representatives of civilian society, is an updated law to their segment. The quick technologies’ evolution and the new regulation to the activities around telecommunication, mainly since the 1990’s, show the backwardness of broadcasting’s legislation.The mismatch between legislation and technologies occurs, mainly, because of the action of entrepreneurs themselves, who are against new regulations. This work confronts the article 53 of Law 4.117/1962 that institutes the Brazilian Telecommunications Code (CBT), with the Law 5.250/1967, or Press Law; and with Law 1.802/1953 or National Security Law, to revel that, despite being extinct, both laws survive at CBT, already totally deconstructed, however, still in force.