Code Virtual Law Library United States Government Servers See also, the Advertising Regulation by the FTC page on this server. In addition, you can view the actual text of several Supreme Court decisions that are directly relevant to commercial speech. As this web site develops, in the space below we will provide a bibliography of articles and books relevant to this topic. To the extent practical, bibliographic references will be annotated. Please type the references in the same format as is used here, and keep the annotations to a few sentences.
Much advertising is of the nonrational, image, variety.
There is something of a parasitic quality about such advertising. As a result, ours has become a commercial culture in a very intrinsic and pervasive sense. Historically, it was thought that the sole or primary enemy of free expression was the State. Today, the consequences of commercial communication reveal that the private captains of the advertising empire may prove to be an enemy of equal stature. But ultimately, it is impossible to disentangle commerce from communication and preserve America as we know it.