Major Principles of Media Law-2004

Book Description
MAJOR PRINCIPLES OF MEDIA LAW is a comprehensive and concise summary of media law. The text is revised every year to include the most recent developments in communication law through the end of the Supreme Court's term. Each August, a new edition is available for fall classes, with recent developments through July 1 fully integrated into the text, not added as an appendix or separate supplement


About the Author
Wayne G. Overbeck is currently Professor of Communication Emeritus at California State University, Fullerton. Prior to coming to CSU-Fullerton, Professor Overbeck attended Loyola Law School, where he received his J.D. and went on to pass the California bar exam in 1975. In the years since, he has practiced law in California and Washington, D.C. -- but always wanted to return to college teaching and writing. With 37 years of teaching experience and his years as a practicing attorney, he continues to be an expert in the field of media law and brings that experience to the Fifteenth Edition of MAJOR PRINCIPLES OF MEDIA LAW. In addition to MAJOR PRINCIPLES OF MEDIA LAW, Overbeck has written several other books and taught on several other campuses.


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This textbook begins with a review of the American legal system and its promises of freedom, and then addresses specific topics related to communications law. Chapters focus on issues like prior restraint, libel and slander, privacy, copyrights and trademarks, media coverage of trials, reporter's privilege, freedom of information, obscenity, electronic media regulation, media antitrust laws, advertising, and the student press. Overbeck is a lawyer and a professor at California State University, Fullerton. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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