Don R. Pember,
University of Washington Clay Calvert,
Pennsylvania State University - University Park
ISBN: 0073126853 Copyright year: 2007
New to This Edition
Updated chapters on the First Amendment include new material on community censorship, expanded treatment of First Amendment theories, a new section on violent video games, new material on school press censorship including the recent ruling in Hosty v. Carter and recent high school censorship cases, and a new subsection on alcohol advertising in college newspapers.
New material in the libel chapters includes a restructured introduction, new material on who is a public official, a fresh discussion of defamation by implication, and several news cases on public figures, defamation by opinion and criminal libel.
Updated chapters on the right to privacy include a new introduction, the "Perfect Storm" appropriation case, the Eminem false light case, and expanded discussion of privacy and ethics.
New material in the chapter on news gathering includes a discussion of access problems since 9/11, new discussion of the Supreme Court ruling in the Favish case, new material on legislative efforts to revise the FOIA, a new section on the right to interview government officials, and a discussion of the New York Times’ successful battle to gain access to audio tapes relating to the 9/11 Trade Center attacks.
Updated material in the chapter on reporters and their sources includes an enhanced section on the recent jailing and threats to jail reporters relating to the outing of the undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame, Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee, and the grand jury testimony in the BALCO steroid case, updated material on calls for a new federal shield law, and a new look at whether bloggers can qualify as journalists for purposes of source protection.
New material in the "Free Press-Fair Trial" chapters includes an outline of news cases relating to gag orders aimed at trial participants, and attempts to shield the identities of jurors, access to hearings for detainees and suspected terrorists, and a restructured section on open and closed judicial documents
The updated obscenity chapters contains a discussion of two recent lawsuits that directly challenge the federal obscenity law, U.S. v. Extreme Associates Inc, and a case involving a New York photographer who has challenged the community standards test when applied to material on the Internet, as well as updated material on the Child Online Protection Act, including the Supreme Court ruling on the law.
New material in the copyright chapter includes an updated discussion of the Rosa Parks/LaFace records trademark case and other new trademark rulings, new fair use rulings, an expanded and updated section on file sharing, including a discussion of M.G.M. v. Grokster, and a recent decision by the court of appeals on the rights of free lancer photographers.
The updated advertising chapter includes new material on appellate court attempts to determine what is and what is not advertising, a discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision involving the Livestock Marketing Association’s mandatory advertising campaign, and a new subsection called Regulating Spam.
New material in the "Telecommunications Regulation" chapter includes updated material on FCC attempts to alter ownership rules, substantial expansion of the material on the current FCC crackdown on indecent broadcast content, a new section on payola that includes a discussion of the regulation of video news releases and government payments to political commentators and a new section on satellite radio.
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