Digital Media Law

by Ashley Packard (University of Houston, USA )

• ISBN13: 9781405181693
• ISBN10: 1405181699
• Format: Hardcover
• 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

Introduction: What is digital media law?

Introduction to the Legal System

Freedom of Expression

Broadcast Regulation

Cable and Satellite Regulation

The Internet

Information Access and Protection

Privacy

Defamation

Intellectual Property

Jurisdiction and Choice of Law

Indecency and Obscenity

Media and Violence

Commercial speech

Antitrust Issues

How to Find the Law

Appendices

The book will include forms for copyright, trademark and patent registration as well as a form letter for Freedom of Information requests

Index of cases cited Index

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