Electronic media law and regulation
By: Kenneth C. Creech.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Focal Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780240808413
Subjects: Television -- Law and legislation -- United States; Radio -- Law and legislation -- United States; Mass media -- Law and legislation -- United States; Internet -- Law and legislation -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( p.481-488) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the legal system; title: Interpreting the first amendment; title: The rationale of broadcast regulation; title: The rationale of cable and satellite (DSS) television regulation; title: The broadcast licensing and cable franchising process; title: Regulation of electronic media content; title: Regulation of commercial practices; title: Copyright, music rights, and trademark; title: Privacy and the electronic media; title: Defamation : libel and the media; title: Free press/fair trial : a conflict of rights; title: Communications regulation : new technologies and the Internet.