Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Communications

Modern Communications Law provides the most comprehensive and contemporary coverage of communications law available, a subject characterized by rapidly expanding and changing horizons. The book is thorough, informative, and accessible. It is divided into three main sections that respectively consider the media's nature and context, structural governance of the communications industry, and content issues. Lively provides an in-depth study of telephone communications--an area which affects virtually the entire citizenry--as well as print, broadcasting, cable, and other new...

What sort of communicative activities are actually covered and specifically protected by the Constitution? What is a public forum? What is the clear and present danger test for political free speech? How are the courts grappling with a definition for obscenity? What are the rights of the press? What is commercial speech? When does the right to privacy overrule the right to free press? Are picket lines the same as demonstrations? These are just a few of the questions students will think about as they study how the Supreme Court has responded to these issues over the past century.

Concentrating on privacy issues in public, school and academic libraries, this title pays particular attention to the effect of technology on personal privacy in these settings. In depth discussions of the laws effecting personal privacy and privacy in library settings will be explored. Recent laws enacted that impact individual privacy are discussed and explained. Special attention is given to the USA Patriot Act. Appendices with core privacy documents, sample privacy and confidentiality policies and outlines for privacy audits to be implemented in staff training situations in all types...

A powerful indictment of contemporary attacks on free speech, this book argues for a vigorous First Amendment jurisprudence protecting even offensive types of speech. In recent years, political activists, academics, and legal specialists have attacked traditional notions of free speech protection as they concern hate speech, obscenity, and pornography. They have called for changes in Supreme Court doctrine in defining the First Amendment and have argued that the traditional view of free speech actually creates and perpetuates a society in which the weak--women, minorities, the poor--have...

The First Amendment to the Constitution, assuring freedom of speech and freedom of the press, was ratified nearly 200 years ago. Since that time, the amendment has maintained its tradition off freedom while accomodating the introduction of technologies that the framers of the Constitution could not have envisioned, including the telephone, radio and television, and the communications satellite. Recent dramatic technological advances in communications, however, will subject the First Amendment to stresses exceeding anything in its past history. "The First Amendment--The Challenge of New...

Die Fallsammlung richtet sich vornehmlich an Studenten und Referendare der Wahlfachgruppe "Wirtschaftsrecht." Das Werk dient der Einarbeitung und Vervollkommnung der Fallbearbeitungstechnik. Insbesondere wird der Fokus auf eine Synthese von materiellem und prozessualem Recht gelegt. Inhaltlich gesehen werden die Bereiche des Urheberrechts, Wettbewerbsrechts, Kartellrechts, Markenrechts und Patentrechts abgedeckt. Um eine weitere eigenstandige Wissensvertiefung zu ermoglichen und zu gewahrleisten, werden am Ende der jeweiligen Fallbearbeitung weiterfuhrende Literaturhinweise zu den...

Die vorliegende Studie ist eine rechtslinguistische Untersuchung zur Explizierung des textgestutzten und diskursbasierten Rechtsstreits zwischen verschiedenen Rechtsarbeitern (Richter, Staatsanwalt, Rechtsanwalt) im Rechtsfindungsverfahren. Als Untersuchungskorpus gelten die authentischen Textmaterialien (Anklageschriften, Berufungs- bzw. Revisionsschriften, Urteile und Schriftsatze usw.) von sechs zusammenhangenden Rechtsfallen aus der deutschen Rechtspraxis. Die Analyse setzt sich zum Ziel, einerseits zugunsten des interdisziplinaren Erkenntnisinteresses einen exemplarischen Beitrag zu...

The rise of the Internet and social media in particular offer great opportunities for brand owners to increase business and brand recognition. While this has clearly been of benefit to brand owners, who have seen a consequent rise in the value of their brands, it simultaneously makes those brands more attractive for exploitation or attack by others. Brand risks can come in many different types and this book provides examples of how these risks can arise as well as providing quantitative estimates of the adverse impacts that can result from such risks.

Brand owners need to be aware of the...

Within the last decade, the Internet has developed as a phenomenon encompassing social, cultural, economic and legal facets. It has become common practice to use the Internet for both the retrieval and provision of information, with the result that the Internet has become a valuable tool in everyday life. Many Internet participants are unaware that they leave data tracks on every website they pass; surfing on the World Wide Web is far from being an anonymous activity of no consequence.

In recent years a number of networking techniques have been initiated in order to accommodate the...