Debuting in its first edition, Communication Law is an engaging and accessible text that brings a fresh approach to the fundamentals of mass media law. Unique in its approach and its visually attractive design, this text differentiates itself from other current texts on the market while presenting students with key principles and landmark cases that establish and define communication law and regulation, providing a hands-on learning experience.
Communication Law serves as a core textbook for undergraduate courses in communication and mass media law.
The Handbook of Communication Rights, Law, and Ethics provides readers with: A diverse, global perspective on how communication rights are protected and challenged around the world A universal vision of communication rights that encourages ...
The text also explains the fundamentals of media law in areas such as defamation, privacy, the media and the courts, confidentiality and privilege, access to information, broadcasting, and cyberspace.
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Strickland, 420 U.S. 308, 326 (1975); Epperson v. ... purpose that the First Amendment is so “directly and sharply implicate[d],” ibid, as to require judicial intervention to protect students' constitutional rights.7 [274] III.
A grand jury indicted Pentagon employee Linda Tripp on two felony counts in 1999 for taping telephone conversations with Monica Lewinsky about Lewinsky's relationship with President Bill Clinton . Although Tripp's lawyer had advised her ...
When Justin Timberlake distributed a picture of himself voting in Memphis, he was among the most visible individuals potentially facing charges for violating state law.1 The law in Tennessee and 17 other states prohibits voter selfies ...
The First Amendment and Mass Communications: The First Amendment in Perspective; Defamation and Mass Communications; Privacy and the Mass Media; Restraint of Obscene Expression; Restraint of the Press for Purpose...
Including two new chapters that examine First Amendment issues and ownership of social media accounts and content, Social Media and the Law brings together thirteen media law scholars to address these questions and more, including current ...
Nichols, a case discussed earlier, the Tennessee Supreme Court said a jury could find the Memphis Press-Scimitar liable because it omitted critical facts from an article about a shooting.262 The Press-Scimitar truthfully reported that a ...