Digital Media Law
Ashley Packard (University of Houston, USA )
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 can be found at http://www.digitalmedialaw.us.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. Introduction to the Legal System.
2. Freedom of Expression.
3. Telecommunications Regulation.
4. Internet Regulation.
5. Confl ict of Laws.
6. Information Access and Protection.
7. Intellectual Property: Copyright.
8. Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks, and Trade Secrets.
9. Defamation.
10. Invasion of Privacy.
11. Sex and Violence.
12. Commercial Speech and Antitrust Law.
Table of Cases.
Glossary.
Notes.
Index.
Paperback, 368 pages
