Media The Law category: 455 books

Thousands have run afoul of Britain’s Obscene Publications Act—from Victorian erotica presses to 21st-century dominatrices. At a time when the internet has made sexually explicit material ubiquitous, why are British traditional media still regulated by a vaguely worded law from 1857? This comprehensive...

The study Urban poverty and life in slums, thus, is not seen as a situation in which there exist only losers and by which no winners could possibly emerge. Rather, the phenomenon of urban poverty and slum living may be seen as a spectrum along which there exist to varying degrees opportunities to beak out of a situation, even if one is born into it

SpringerBriefs in Biotech Patents presents timely reports on intellectual properties (IP) issues and patent aspects in the field of biotechnology. This volume focus on particular aspects of the US patent law, which can have tremendous differences compared to the European law. This includes questions...

Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the transparency movement’s canonical achievements. Yet while many view the law as a powerful tool for journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens to pursue the public good,...

This book further develops both the traditional and the behavioural approach to competition law, and applies these approaches to a variety of timely issues. It discusses several fundamental questions regarding competition law and economics, and explores the applications of competition law and economics....

This book tells a series of living stories about a domain of social activity, “the work and play of the mind,” in a particular historical epoch: the “information age.” The stories concern political processes and movements as varied as the World Trade Organization’s Trade-Related Aspects...

Case studies of media manipulation and corruption involving politicians and businessmen in Australia

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Jura - Medienrecht, Multimediarecht, Urheberrecht, Note: 2.3, Universität Kassel (Wirtschaftsrecht), Veranstaltung: Rechtsfragen im social Media, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit wird die Frage behandelt, inwiefern und ob das Streamen von...

Dieser Quick Guide gibt Antworten zu den häufigsten Fragen der rechtskonformen Verwendung von Bildmaterial in Marketing und PR – und darüber hinaus. Im Fokus stehen die typischen Anwendungsfälle der digitalen Publikation von Fotos, Videos, Logos, Designs und Grafiken in den Bereichen: Menschen,...

Das Internet ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil unseres Alltags. Entsprechend bedeutsam sind die damit verbundenen Rechtsfragen. Provider, Anschlussinhaberhaftung, Datenschutz, Urheberrecht, Social Media, Links, Domains, Internet-Auktionen und viele weitere Internet-Themen werden in diesem Buch rechtlich...

Copyright governance is in a state of flux because the boundaries between legal and illegal consumption have blurred. Trajce Cvetkovski interrogates the disorganizational effects of piracy and emerging technologies on the political economy of copyright in popular music, film and gaming industries.

This clearly written and well-focused volume combines concise decisions of the primary areas of communication law with the foundational case decisions in those domains. Thus, in one volume, students of communication law, constitutional law, political science, and related fields find both the key rulings...

Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings proposes a theory of sexual politics that works in the interstices between radical queer desires and the urgency of transforming public policy, between utopian longings and everyday failures. Considering the ways in which bodily movement is...

Communication and Law brings together scholars from law and communication to talk both generally and specifically about the theoretical and methodological approaches one can use to study the First Amendment and general communication law issues. The volume is intended to help graduate students and...