Communication Law

Dom Caristi, Ph.D., is Professor of Telecommunications at Ball State University in Indiana. He was a Fulbright professor in Slovenia in 1995 and in Greece in 2009, and has been a visiting professor in Italy with the Kentucky Institute for International Studies and AHA International. A member of the Broadcast Education Association for more than 30 years, he served on the Board of Directors 1997–2002, including a term as its Vice President. William R. Davie, Ph.D., is Professor of Communication at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is the head of the Mass Communication/Broadcast sequence, and has served as interim department head and graduate program coordinator. He has served as a Fulbright Teaching Scholar to China, and has received the Edward L. Bliss Award for Broadcast Journalism Education.

Table of Contents

Preface






Sources of Law and Systems of Justice



First Amendment in Principle and Practice



Sedition and Censorship



Forums of Freedom



Libel



Privacy



Intellectual Property



Digital Media Law



Telecommunications



Broadcast Regulation



Obscenity and Indecency



Advertising Law



Media Business Law



Media and Courts



Freedom of Access



Glossary