Electronic Media Law and Regulation

As Media Law continues to grow as a subject of the latest laws and their implications. This book will keep you on your toes! It prepares you how to avoid common legal problems. Specifically, this fifth edition provides updates on FCC policies and technologies, and reviews. Electronic Media Law & Regulation is a useful reference for media professionals.

* Author's website www.kencreech.com includes any chapter
* A catalog of copyright and FCC forms are included in the book
* Complex information is conveyed in an easy-to-understand tone, with supporting examples and case studies

Introduction to the Legal System; Interpreting the First Amendment; The Rationale of Broadcast Regulation; The Rationale of Cable and Satellite (DSS) Television Regulation; The Broadcast Licensing and Cable Franchising Process; Regulation of Electronic Media Content; Regulation of Commercial Practices; Copyright, Music Licensing and Trademark; Privacy and the Electronic Media; Defamation: Libel and the Media; Free Press / Fair Trial Issues and the Electronic Media; Communications Regulation / New Technologies and the Internet; Forms library: Copyright and FCC forms.