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Mass Media Law by Clay Calvert, Dan V. Kozlowski and Derigan Silver

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Mass Media Law provides college students with a timely, comprehensive, and up-to-date examination of some of the most important principles, doctrines, and cases affecting communications law and the First Amendment freedoms of speech, press, and assembly. The book is packed with current, real-life examples and the latest legal rulings that are relevant for students studying journalism, advertising, public relations, telecommunications, and other facets of the media and communications professions.

1: The American Legal System

2: The First Amendment: The Meaning of Freedom

3: The First Amendment: Contemporary Problems

4: Defamation: Establishing a Case

5: Defamation: Proof of Fault

6: Defamation: Defenses and Damages

7 Invasion of Privacy: Appropriation and Intrusion

8: Invasion of Privacy: Publication of Private Information and False Light

9: Gathering Information: People, Places, Records, and Recordings

10: Protection of News Sources/Contempt Power

11: Free Press-Fair Trail: Trail-Level Remedies and Restrictive Orders

12: Free Press-Fair Trail: Closed Judicial Proceedings

13: Regulation of Obscene and Other Erotic Material

14: Copyright and Trademark

15: Regulation of Advertising

16: Telecommunications Regulation

About the Author

Clay Calvert

Clay Calvert is professor emeritus at the University of Florida, where he held a joint appointment as professor of law in the Levin College of Law and Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication in the College of Journalism and Communications. Since June 2023, Calvert has served as a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, writing more than 130 columns about topics at the intersection of free speech, media law, and technology.

Dan V. Kozlowski

Dan V. Kozlowski is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and the associate dean for faculty affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at Saint Louis University. He teaches free expression, journalism, and media courses and has published widely on First Amendment issues.

Derigan Silver

Derigan Silver is a Professor and the Chair in the Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. He is also the Faculty Director of Freedom of Expression and Pluralism Initiatives in the Office of the Chancellor. He has published in peer review journals and law reviews on defamation, access to government information, national security law and originalism.

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