Digital Media Law

by Ashley Packard (University of Houston, USA )

• ISBN13: 9781405181686
• ISBN10: 1405181680
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

In a world where anyone can become a media producer, everyone should know something about media law - both to protect their own rights and to avoid violating the rights of others. Digital Media Law is the first media law text to respond to digitalization and globalization--the two most significant agents of change in the 21st century. The first book to explain how media law has evolved to meet the challenges posed by digital media, providing an introduction to all areas of digital media law and its overlap with traditional media law Covers areas such as Internet publishing, file sharing, satellite radio and cellular phone broadcasts Features explanations of traditional communication law concepts, illustrated with modern cases related to digital media that students know and use Expanded treatments are given to particularly interesting issues, cases, law projects, treaties, and litigants, etc. Accompanying website with ancillaries and updates on legal topics related to digital media

Author Biography

Ashley Packard is a Professor of Communication and Digital Media Studies at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, where she chairs the Digital Media Studies Graduate Program. She has been teaching digital media law for more than a decade, and her articles on the subject have been published in the Journal of International Media Entertainment Law, Communication Law Policy, Communications and the Law, University of Georgia Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Law/Technology, and the International Encyclopedia of Communication.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction to the Legal System	p. 1
Freedom of Expression	p. 20
Telecommunications Regulation	p. 39
Internet Regulation	p. 63
Conflict of Laws	p. 82
Information Access and Protection	p. 103
Intellectual Property: Copyright	p. 127
Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks, and Trade Secrets	p. 156
Defamation	p. 179
Invasion of Privacy	p. 202
Sex and Violence	p. 230
Commercial Speech and Antitrust Law	p. 252
Table of Cases	p. 279
Glossary	p. 291
Notes	p. 295
Index	p. 331
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