Product Description: This teachable work provides a comprehensive introduction to the technology, economics, law, and policy of modern communications. For more information, consult the casebook's website: http://jerrykang.net/commlaw."This is the best casebook I have purchased for a HLS class and is the best investment I have made in books in my three years here...read more

Product Description: The fourth edition of this popular casebook reflects many new developments in the rapidly changing entertainment industry, both from a legal and practical perspective. More than half of the book consists of an updated textual discussion of the evolution and current state of the entertainment industry, along with key cases for discussion and illustration of central legal themes...read more

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.