
The First Amendment and the Fourth Estate
The Law of Mass Media
LEG Inc. (dba West Academic Publishing
12th Edition
Published on 30. April 2017
Book
Hardback
1335 pages
978-1-63460-275-4 (ISBN)
Description
This casebook provides a thorough examination of the law of mass media, providing principal court opinions, explanatory text, and questions for discussion. Topics include the American legal system, introduction to freedom of expression, defamation, privacy, liability for emotional and physical harm, copyright and trademark, national security, obscenity and indecency, advertising regulation, press coverage of the administration of justice, confidentiality, newsgathering from non-judicial public sources, ownership of the media and related problems, access to the media, introduction to broadcasting, and legal control of broadcast programming. In this edition, Internet and new media topics, including net neutrality and other current issues, are integrated into the other materials.
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Series
Edition
12th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
MN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 190 mm
Weight
2205 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63460-275-4 (9781634602754)
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