This book is a reference guide for practitioners to the major legal and regulatory issues involved in media, but could also be used as a media law textbook for a course of academic study. Written by experts in the field, the wide-ranging coverage addresses the law regulating both traditional and new media.

This new work draws upon the combined expertise of established academic authorities and leading practitioners to describe and analyse key developments across a range of inter-related fields such as defamation, contempt of court, freedom of information, media ownership and diversity, intellectual property, and the regulation of public and commercial broadcast media, including advertising rules...A well-written and accessible account of most of the important facets of media law

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David Goldberg taught law at the School of Law, University of Glasgow from 1971-2000 and created the teaching of media law and policy there in 1983. He directs deeJgee Research/Consultancy and is an Associate Fellow, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. He facilitates media law learning at Glasgow Caledonian University; Queen Mary College (University of London) and Stirling University. In 1979, he founded the Journal of Media Law and Practice, now Tottel's Communications Law and Practice. He co-convenes the Media Law Advocates Training Programme and is a founding member of the International Media Lawyers Association. He is is on the Board of the Legal Human Academy, which explores innovative learning methods for lawyers. Gavin Sutter is Lecturer in Media Law and a member of the Institute of Computer and Communications Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London. He established, manages and teaches on the LLM Media Law course for the ICCL, as well as writing in the field. His key areas of interest are in the regulation of content in both traditional and new media, with a particular emphasis on the issues of defamation and intermediary liability. He has been a member of the executive board of BILETA (British & Irish Law, Education & Technology Association), and sits on the editorial board of Tottel's Communications Law journal. Dr Ian Walden is Professor of Information and Communications Law and head of the Institute of Computer and Communications Law in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London. He has been involved in law reform projects for the World Bank, the European Commission, UNCTAD, UNECE and the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, as well as for a number of individual states. In 1995-96, He was seconded to the European Commission, as a National Expert in electronic commerce law, and is a member of the Legal Advisory Board to the Information Society Directorate-General of the European Commission. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Texas and Melbourne and is also a solicitor at Baker & McKenzie LLP. He is a Trustee and Vice-Chair of the Internet Watch Foundation.

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A. INTRODUCTION; 1. Introduction; Who are "the media"?; Who are the media's consumers?; Sources of media "norms"; 2. Who owns the media?; Ownership & Competition; Plurality of services; Universal Services; Listed Events; B. REGULATING REPORTAGE; 3. Regulating Journalism and Newsgathering; Protection of journalists' sources; 4. Reporting Restrictions & Contempt of Court; Right of Access to the Media; Restrictions on court reportage - pre and post trial; Contempt of Court; 5. Reporting elections; Reporting the election process; Reporting the political process more broadly; Advertising on issues of public concern; C. REGULATING DISTRIBUTION; 6. Intellectual Property and the Media; Copyright in original media content; Moral rights; Format Rights; Authors' agreements; Database right and media services; WIPO Draft Treaty on Broadcasters' rights in broadcast content; Trade marks; Patent aspects; Licensing media content; Publicity Rights; Competition issues; 7. Information Law; Data Protection & the media; Confidentiality & Privacy; Freedom of Information; Official Secrets; Defence Advisory Notices; 8. Broadcasting; Broadcast media licensing; Changing nature of broadcasting; D. REGULATING CONTENT; 9. Legal and Extra Legal Regulation of Media Content; Regulation of Broadcast Content; PCC Regulation of Press content; Classification (film & video games); 10. Illegal Content; The Article 10 Margin of Appreciation; Blasphemy; Hate Speech; Obscenity & Indecency; Possession of Extreme Pornography; 11. Cultural protections; Language rights; Local production; Independent productions; 12. Commercial Communications; Advertising Regulations; Sponsorship; Product placement; Rules on amount / distribution