Product Description: From the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program, a collection of verse inspired by New Hampshire's dynamic coastal city. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Uses interviews with key players in the media and soccer industry to analyze the impact of media change on British soccer.

This critical study highlights the ways in which issues of intellectual property are driving the contemporary media economy, from disputes over downloading music from the Internet to negotiations over David Beckham's image rights. As Richard Haynes demonstrates, the media industry exploits copyright and trademarks in new and seemingly boundless ways, whether it's the blockbuster movie Harry Potter or the successful children's television program Bob the Builder. The book focuses on: • The underlying importance of intellectual property rights to the media industry • The impact of digitalization on the protection of copyright • The response of the music industry to digital distribution and copyright piracy • The emergence of celebrity image rights • Issues of copyright and the Internet

The fully revised and updated version of this classic text examines the link between three key obsessions of the 21st century: the media, sport and popular culture. Gathering new material from around the 2007 Rugby World Cup, the Beijing Olympics and the rise of new sports stars such as boxing's Amir Khan and cycling's Victoria Pendleton, the authors explore a wide range of sports, as well as issues including nationalism, gender, race, political economy and the changing patterns of media sport consumption.For those interested in media and sport the second edition combines new and original material with an overview of the developing field of media sport, and examines the way in which the media has increasingly come to dominate how sport is played, organized and thought about in society. It traces the historical evolution of the relationship between sport and the media and examines the complex business relationships that have grown up around television, sponsors and sport.Covers the following topics: the history of media in sport; television, sport and sponsorship; why sport matters to television; sports stars; sports journalism; fans and the audience; sport in the digital media economy.

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