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Entertainment, Media And the Law: Text, Cases And Problems (American Casebook Series) |  | Author: Paul C. Weiler
Publisher: West Group
Category: Book
List Price: $153.00
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 131732
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3RD
Pages: 1190
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.4
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.5 x 1.8
ISBN: 0314167226
Dewey Decimal Number: 343
EAN: 9780314167224
ASIN: 0314167226
Publication Date: August 16, 2006
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Product Description
Thoughtfully edited cases to highlight the court's reasoning on the key points at issue make covering the material feasible in a one-term course. And to help readers appreciate the significance of the court decisions, over half the book consists of text that describes the evolution and current state of both the entertainment industry and the relevant legal doctrines. Provides lively accounts of how home video transformed the film industry when a last-minute switch in votes on the Supreme Court made copying TV shows for private consumption a legal "fair use," and how Hollywood unions solved the problem of artistic credits but were unable to counter the attack on the Hollywood Ten.
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A sloppy and unfortunate edition January 17, 2010
Joshua N. Mitchell (Denver, CO USA)
West really dropped the ball with Professor Weiler's book, which appears to have passed through the publishing process unedited. The result is a book riddled with errors typographical, grammatical and factual. Nor are these limited to the commentary between cases: this book introduces extraneous words into judicial opinions, an unforgivable sin for a publishing house whose other main line of business is reporting those opinions. The resulting text does a disservice both to Professor Weiler, who appears despite the book's shortcomings to have wide-ranging knowledge of this area of the law, and to the students tasked with learning this subject matter, who will quickly learn not to trust the work in anything but its broadest outlines.
No published work is ever perfect, of course, and a few errors are to be expected. However, the frequency and severity of this book's errors--regularly several to a page, with more in some sections--go far beyond what any reader would expect of a book he paid a few dollars for, much less this inflated price.
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