Detailed examination of the law of mass media, providing principle cases, court opinions, and extensive text and research materials. Includes in-depth chapter discussions of: The American Legal System; Introduction to Freedom of Expression; Defamation; Privacy; Liability for Emotional and Physical Harm; Copyright and Trademark; National Security; Obscenity; Advertising Regulation; Press Coverage of the Administration of Justice; Confidentiality in Newsgathering; Newsgathering from non-Judicial Public Sources; Ownership of the Media and Related Problems; Acces to the Media; Introduction to Broadcasting; Legal Control of Broadcast Programming: Political Speech; Legal Control of Broadcast Programming: Nonpolitical Speech; and Cable and New Technologies.

Product Description: This law school casebook examines the opinions and decisions of the overnmental bodies most directly responsible for the laws and regulations that apply to the electronic mass media Congress, the FCC, and the courts. A part of the University Casebook Series, it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject...read more

Product Description: This book takes an in-depth look at communications law, with an emphasis on First Amendment cases. The ninth edition of this book features more than 30 Supreme Court cases, and the decisions that help define communications law as we know it today...read more

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