Media Law and Ethics (Lea's Communication Series) |  | Authors: Roy L. Moore, Michael D. Murray
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 816
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Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 6.9 x 1.7
ISBN: 0805850678
Dewey Decimal Number: 343.73099
EAN: 9780805850673
ASIN: 0805850678
Publication Date: November 27, 2007
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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.
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A very serious text for a very serious topic February 10, 2010
C. Fong (Bay Area, CA, USA)
Although I ended up returning my copy because the class got cancelled, this is a good book - it's jammed full of an incredible amount of information for its size. Detailed records of important court cases and other laws are not the sort of thing I expected to find in this textbook - especially since it's a "100 level" (freshman) course which I was taking. I was actually surprised that it is a paperback, since it weighs almost as much as some of my hard-bound books...
The book's one problem is that it is *dreadfully* boring. On the one hand, I like that it is actually designed for college-level students - this book has nothing but good solid content, and it doesn't beat around the bush or dumb down its message. On the other hand, it can be quite difficult to study...in a lot of ways it reminds me of my Advanced Placement Biology textbook, which was thousands of pages long and in size 8 or so print.
Still, for a dedicated scholar more concerned with learning than fun value, this is an excellent text.
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