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Media Law and Ethics Roy L. Moore (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)

Media Law and Ethics By Roy L. Moore (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)

Media Law and Ethics by Roy L. Moore (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)

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Updates major US Supreme Court cases and lower court decisions through 1998. This book includes a discussion on media ethics and the role of ethics in media law. It also includes an appendix that features a copy of the US Constitution, and new sample copyright and trademark registration forms.

Media Law and Ethics Summary

Media Law and Ethics by Roy L. Moore (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)

The third edition of Media Law and Ethics features a complete updating of all major U.S. Supreme Court cases and lower court decisions through 1998; more discussion throughout the book on media ethics and the role of ethics in media law; and an updated appendix that now features a copy of the U.S. Constitution, new sample copyright and trademark registration forms, and the current versions of major media codes of ethics, including the new code of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Extensively updated and expanded chapters provide:
*more detailed explanations of the legal system, the judicial process, and the relationship between media ethics and media law;
*new cases in this developing area of the law that has attracted renewed attention from the U.S. Supreme Court;
*the new Telecommunications Act and the Communications Decency Act;
*a discussion of telecommunications and the Internet;
*new developments in access to courts, records, and meetings such as recent court decisions and statutory changes; and
*more information about trademark and trade secret laws and recent changes in copyright laws, as well as major court decisions on intellectual property.

The book has also been updated to include new developments in obscenity and indecency laws, such as the Communications Decency Act, and the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Reno vs. ACLU. In addition, the instructor's manual includes a listing of electronic sources of information about media law, sample exams, and a sample syllabus.

About Roy L. Moore (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)

Roy. L. Moore (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin Madison; J.D. Georgia State Unviersity) is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Mass Communication at Georgia College & State University. He earlier served as Associate Dean in the College of Communications and Information Studies and Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Kentucky, where he also served as a Faculty Trustee on the Board of Trustees and Executive Director of the First Amendment Center. He is a practicing attorney and a national authority on libel law and First Amendment issues. During 2001- 2002 he was an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow at the University of Georgia. He chaired the Law Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and was named a Great Teacher by the University of Kentucky Alumni Association. Michael D. Murray (Ph.D. University of Missouri Columbia) is the University of Missouri Board of Curators' Distinguished Professor and teaches on the St. Louis campus. He has taught at Virginia Tech and the University of Louisville, at which he founded the Department of Communication and also held post-doctoral fellowships at Stanford University, University of London and Cambridge University. He is a national authority on the history of broadcast news and regulatory issues and has been honored for teaching excellence by every major academic communication organization including the National Communication Association, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, American Journalism Historians Association and the International Radio & Television Society. He recently served as founding director of the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and is author or editor of seven books. He is currently the review and criticism editor for the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition.

1. Sources and Types of American Law.

2. The U.S. Legal System.

3. The Judicial System

4. Ethical Dilemmas, Issues, and Concerns in Mass Communication

5. Prior Restraint.

6. Corporate and Commercial Speech.

7. Electronic Mass Media and Telecommunications.

8. Libel.

9. Indecency, Obscenity, and Pornography.

10. Right of Privacy.

11. Press and Public Access to the Judicial Process, Records, Places, and Meetings.

12. Intellectual Property.

Appendix A. Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics.

Appendix B. National Press Photographers Association Code of Ethics.

Appendix C. American Society of Newspaper Editors Statement of Principles.

Appendix D. American Association of Advertising Agencies Standards of Practice.

Appendix E. Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

Appendix F. The Constitution of the United States.

Appendix G. Copyright Registration Forms. Trademark Registration Forms.

Case Index

Additional information

GOR006222671
9780805850673
0805850678
Media Law and Ethics by Roy L. Moore (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)
Roy L. Moore (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)
Routledge Communication Series
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Inc
20071101
816
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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