Communication Law: Practical Applications in the Digital Age - Brossura

Caristi, Dominic G.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0205504167 ISBN 13: 9780205504169

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2011

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

Dominic G. Caristi, Ball State University
William R. Davie, University of Louisiana

Contenuti:

PREFACE  CHAPTER ONE: SOURCES OF LAW & SYSTEMS OF JUSTICE  Learning Objectives  Flag burning and the First Amendment  Sources of Law  Up Close:  "Party Politics in Early America"  Statutory Acts  Hierarchy of Law  The Common Law  Actions in Equity  Executive Orders  Up Close:  "Ordering Freedom of Access"  Administrative Agencies  Systems of Justice  Criminal Procedures  Pre-trial Phase.  Trial Phase.  Post-trial phase  Civil Procedures.  Pre-trial phase  Trial Phase  Post-trial Phase  Up Close:  Elements in a Criminal Cases and Civil Actions  Court System  The Appeals Process  Supreme Courts  Granting Certiorari  Oral Arguments and Opinions  Scholarship in Law  Research procedures  Case Law Sources  Briefing the Case  Citation.  Facts  Issue  Decision  Explanation  Rule of Law  Concurrences & Dissents  Summary  Unsolved Case: Divided Circuits?  CHAPTER TWO: FIRST AMENDMENT IN PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE  Learning Objectives  Drawing the Line  Up Close:  Free Expression versus Fear  The Value of Free Expression  Discovery of Truth  Up Close:  John Milton's Areopagitica  Democracy  Stability of Society  Self-Fulfillment  So then, Which Value is the Important One?  The First Amendment Restricts Government Action  Words <> Speech  Speaker Rights versus Listener Rights  Up Close:  Measuring the Climate for Free Expression  Reviewing the First Amendment  Who is Congress  The Meaning of No Law  Abridging Freedom  Compelling Speech  Speech and Press  Right of Assembly  Right of Petition  Summary  Unsolved Case: 21st Century Terrorism  CHAPTER THREE: FORUMS OF FREEDOM  Learning Objectives  The Umbrella of Free Expression  The Origin of Forums  Student Expression Lessons  History Matters  Speaker's Impact Matters  Symbolic Speech  Disruption Test  Speaker's Medium Matters  Who controls the channel?  Who owns the content?  Compatible Use of the Form?  Workplace Rules an Expression  Shopping Malls  Freedom of Expression for Employees  Disruptions to the Workplace  Levels of Scrutiny  Intermediate Scrutiny  The Open Forum Test  Up-Close: "Free Speech Zones"  Protesting on Principle  Viewpoint Discrimination  Pro-Life Protests  Up-Close "Nuremberg Files"  Inflicting Harms  Dangerous Speech  Up-Close: "The Heckler's Veto"  Revisiting the "Fighting Words" Doctrine  Modern Hate-Crime Controls  Flames of Racism  Summary  Unsolved Case:  Student Web sites -- How far can they go?  CHAPTER FOUR: CENSORSHIP AND SEDITION  Learning Objectives  Crackdown on Dissent  Seeds of Sedition  The American Experience  Up Close: "A Great Noise in the World"  Alien & Sedition Acts  Sedition During Times of War  The Espionage & Sedition Cases  The Schenck Case  Abrams v. United States  Up Close:  The American Civil Liberties Union  Bad Tendency or Clear & Present Danger?  Gitlow v. New York  Up Close:  Doctrine of Incorporation  Whitney v. California  The Smith Act  Dennis v. United States  Yates v. United States  Brandenburg v. Ohio  Theories of Prior Restraint  Twentieth Century Landmarks  Up Close:  "Anti-Semitism in Print"  A Taxing Question  Prior Restraint by Injunction  Pentagon Papers Case  Banning the Bomb  Free Speech for Spies?  Panic-peddling Flyers  Up Close:  Judicial Temperament  Restraint in the Age of Terrorism  Hezbollah Television  Coffin Coverage  Arguments for Free Expression  Summary  Unsolved Case: Treason  CHAPTER FIVE: LIBEL  Learning Objectives  Defining Libel  Civil Versus Criminal Libel  Making a Case for Libel  1. Identification  2. Defamatory Language  Up Close: Celebrity Justice  3. Falsity  4. Publication  Up Close: Blogging Perils  5. Fault  Categorizing Plaintiffs  Other Defenses  Privilege  Fair Comment  Up Close: Vaudeville Fair Comment  Neutral Reportage  Retractions  Damages  The Process of Libel  Summary  Unsolved Case: Forum Shopping  CHAPTER SIX: THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY  Learning Objectives  Cell Phone Privacy or Piracy?  Defining the Right to Privacy  Constitutional Privacy  State Laws Vary  Original Scholarship on Privacy  Privacy Defined  Intrusion  Visual Intrusions  Up Close: Video Voyeurism  Public v. Private Property  Privacy and the Paparazzi  Data Snooping  Up Close: One Nation Under Surveillance  Digital Privacy  Is Surreptitious Recording an Intrusion?  Up Close: Food Lion Case  Commercial Appropriation  Right to Publicity  Up Close: Is that You in the Video Game?  Celebrity Publicity Rights  Celebrity Impersonators  Privacy After Death? .  Public Disclosure of Private Facts  Defenses to Private Fact Claims  The Florida Star Case  Sex and Violence Cases.  Up Close Box: HIPAA Rules  False Light Invasion of Privacy  Journalistic Embellishments  Actual Malice Test  Summary  Unsolved Case: The Hurt Locker  CHAPTER SEVEN: OBSCENITY AND INDECENCY  Learning Objectives  Unresolved Questions of Content and Context  Colonial Controls  Comstockery  Early 20th Century Changes  Literary Test Case  Roth-Memoirs Test  Sexual Orientation and Perversion  Pandering Erotic Works  Variable Obscenity  Miller v. California  Privacy and Pornography  Community Standards  Jenkins v. Georgia  Social Values  Child Pornography  Congressional Acts  Child Pornography Prevention Act  Communications Decency Act  Child Online Protection Act  Children's Internet Protection Act  PROTECT Act  Cinema Censorship  The Miracle Case  Times Film Corp. Case  Freedman Rules  Ratings System  Legion of Decency  Production Code's Demise  Up Close: "What the Ratings Mean"  Feminist Mystique  Nude Dancing  Up Close: The Show Me Less State  Broadcast and Cable Indecency  Cable Television  Fleeting Exposures and Expletives  Fox v. FCC  Nipplegate  Broadcast Indecency Act  Dial-a-Porn Law  Indecent Violence  Video Game Ratings  Summary  Unsolved Case: "Sexting" Crimes  CHAPTER EIGHT:  MEDIA AND COURTS  Learning Objectives  The Trial of the Century...At the Time  Up Close: The Supreme Court's Sheppard Decision  Pretrial Publicity  Protecting Fair Trial Rights  Change of Venue  Continuance  Sequestration  Voir Dire  Judicial Admonition  Control of Courtroom  Contempt of Court  Gag Orders  Compelling Reporters to Testify  The Branzburg Test  Up Close: The Grand Jury Process  Shield Laws  Up Close: Privilege  From the Trenches: Federal Shield Law, By Congressman Mike Pence  Newsroom Searches  Cameras in the Courtroom  Must Courtrooms Be Open?  Up Close: Closing Criminal Court  Summary  Unsolved Case: Texting in the Courtroom  CHAPTER NINE: FREEDOM OF ACCESS  Learning Objectives  Access Denied  The Origins of Access  The Constitution and the Common Law  The Freedom of Information Act  Electronic - FOIA  Policy Shifts  FOIA Steps to Access  From the Trenches: Chas. N. Davis  Using the FOIA  FOIA Initiatives  FOIA Responses  Accelerating the FOIA  FOIA Assessment of Fees  Up Close:  The Price of Sunshine  FOIA Exemptions  Up Close: Pictures of Shame  Removing FOIA Barriers  Up Close: Presidential Records  Sunshine in Government Meetings  Up Close: Emails and Text Messages  State Government Access  Laws that Restrict Access  State Driver's License Records  Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act  Privacy of Health Records  Press Freedoms to Gather Information  Summary  Unsolved Case: "Discount Window"  CHAPTER TEN: BROADCAST REGULATION  Learning Objectives  Radio's Regulatory Roots  Wireless Ship Act of 1910  Radio Act of 1912  Washington Radio Conferences  Trial Balloons  The Federal Radio Commission (1927)  Federal Jurisdiction  Rationale for Regulation  Competing Theories  Precedents of Punishment  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)  The Commissioners  Rule-Making Process  Licensing Stations  Licensing Process  Licensing Requirements  Public Inspection File  Infractions  Licensing Renewal  Deregulation  The Telecommunications Act  FCC Analysis of Competition  Television Ownership Limits  Radio Ownership Limits  Duopoly Rule  Cross-Ownership  Rethinking Cross-Ownership  Spectrum Auctions  Localism & Diversity  Up Close: Enhanced Disclosure Forms  Minority Ownership  Minority Employment  Programming Issues  Children's Content  Core Programming  Defining Children's Programs  Embedded Advertising  Product Placement  TV Violence & Children  Political Content  Fairness Doctrine  Fairness Origins  Equal Opportunities  Who is a Legally Qualified Candidate?  Reasonable Access  Exemptions  Newscasts  News Interviews  News Documentaries  Spot News Coverage  Debates  Fine Points of Equal Opportunities  Public Broadcasting  Up Close:  Public Television's Heroine  Broadcasting's Other Obligations  Hoaxes and Distortions  Up Close: The Holy Grail  Station and Sponsor Identification  Summary  Unsolved Case: Performance Tax  CHAPTER ELEVEN: TELECOMMUNICATIONS  Learning Outcomes  A Level Playing Field  In the Beginning  Defining the Messenger  FCC Jurisdiction  Early Competitors  Natural Monopoly  Pendulum of Cable Regulation  Copyright Issues  Syndicated Exclusivity  Must Carry Regulation  Turner I & II  Retransmission Consent  Up Close: "Dallas and its Cable Dilemma"  Cable Act of 1984  Cable Consumer Act of 1992  Registration and Requirements  Public Access Obligations  Midwest Video Cases  A la carte channels  The 70/70 Rule  Satellite Television Regulation  Open Sky Policy  Direct to Home Satellite  Alternative Subscription Services  Wireless Cable (MMDS)  Digital Delivery Options  The Telecommunications Act of 1996  Effective Communication  Vertical and Horizontal Integration  Telephone Competition  Triple or Quadruple Play  Voice-Over Internet Protocol  IPTV Regulation  Summary  Unsolved Case: Universal Service  CHAPTER TWELVE:  ADVERTISING LAW  Learning Objectives  Paternalistic Approaches to Regulating Advertising  Roots of Advertising Regulation  The Central Hudson Test  Deceptive Advertising  Likely to Mislead  Reasonable Consumer  Material to Purchasing Decision  Factual Claims  Up Close: Legitimate Evidence  What About Statements of Opinion?  Up Close: The Special Case of Testimonials  Actions  Other Agencies and Advertising  Self Regulation  Summary  Unsolved Case: Is it Advertising or Isn't It?  CHAPTER THIRTEEN: MEDIA BUSINESS LAW  Learning Objectives  Contracts  Elements of a Contract  Releases as a Contract  Labor Contracts  Hold-Harmless Clauses  Media and Antitrust  Labor Laws  Child Actors  Equal Employment Opportunities  Labor Unions  Up Close: Media Labor Organizations  Corporate Speech  Investing in Media  Insider Trading  Merger Mania  Summary  Unsolved Case: Tiger Woods  CHAPTER FOURTEEN: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY  Learning Objectives  A Constitutional Right? Really?  What is Copyright?  Licensing Performance Rights  Up Close: The Unusual Case of Happy Birthday  Up Close: Production Music  Derivative Works  An Exception to Distribution Rights  Copyright-able Works  Copyright Registration  The Duration of a Copyright  Up Close: Works for Hire  The Doctrine of Fair Use  Purpose and Character of the Use  Nature of the Copyrighted Work  The Amount and Substantiality of the Use  Effect on the Market  Trying to Do the Right Thing  Devices that Facilitate Infringement  Trademarks  Up Close: Comparing Apples to Apples  The Red Light at 3 a.m.  Summary  Unsolved Case: Fan Fiction

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0205504167
• ISBN 13: 9780205504169
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 432