Mass communication law in a nutshell
By: by T. Barton Carter, Professor of Communication and Law, Chairman, Department of Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations, College of Communication, Boston University; Juliet Lushbough Dee, Associate Professor of Communication, College of Arts and Science, University of Delaware; Harvey L. Zuckman, Emeritus Professor of Law, The Catholic University of America, Founding Director, Institute for Communications Law Studies, Washington, D.C.
Contributors: Dee, Juliet Lushbough, author; Zuckman, Harvey L., author
Edition: Seventh edition.
Series: West nutshell series; Nutshell series
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 818
ISBN-13: 9780314280633
Subjects: Law and legislation; Mass media
Notes: Previous edition: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The first amendment in perspective; title: Defamation and mass communication; title: Privacy and the mass media; title: The First Amendment and emotional and physical harm; title: Copyright and trademark; title: Restraint of obscene and indecent expression; title: Restraint of the press for purposes of national security; title: The free press-fair trial conflict; title: Freedom to gather news and information; title: Newspersons' privilege, subpoenas, contempt citations and searches and seizures; title: Regulation of commercial speech; title: Regulation of the electronic mass media; title: Cable and other technologies.