Underhållning och media: Juridik

En Handbok om Musikbranschen – Aktörerna, Avtalen & Sedvänjan är en unik redogörelse för hur musikindustrin fungerar och ett måste för alla som vill veta mer om den. Sissi riktar sig inte bara till dig som är artist, låtskrivare, producent, manager, skivbolagsrepresentant, jurist och redovisare utan även till dig som är förälder, partner eller kompis till en aspirerande stjärna.

Den kan användas som en uppslagsbok – där du hittar förklaringar till det stora antalet termer som används i branschen – och som en guide med kärnfulla kapitel som ger dig vägledning kring rättighetsfrågor, branschvanor och de viktiga avtalen såsom artist-, producent-, management-, och bandavtal för att nämna några.

Sissi delar även med sig av sina personliga erfarenheter och ger konkreta och praktiska tips på hur du ska förhandla till dig bättre villkor, eller så kanske du undrar:

hur du ska tyda vad som står i artist- eller förlagsavtalet; hur ett skivbolag är uppbyggt och vad det gör; hur du ska välja skivbolag; vad en A&R gör; vad en synk är; hur du ska fördela royalty och andra intäkter med dina bandmedlemmar; vad som händer när en bandmedlem lämnar bandet eller utesluts; vad en manager gör; hur du väljer en bra manager och tyder managementavtal; vad en producent, mixare och mastringstekniker gör; hur ett bra producentavtal ska se ut; när din låt är upphovsrättsligt skyddad; vad som gäller när någon har plagierat din musik; hur du ska fördela en låt som du har skrivit med andra låtskrivare; och hur du ska registrera en låt hos Stim;

och många, många fler frågor.

Boken är skriven av musikjuristen och bransch-insidern Sissi Hagald som har gedigna kunskaper och lång erfarenhet av branschspecifika frågor. Hon har bland annat arbetat som inhouse-jurist på indie- och majorskivbolag och musikförlag samt drivit en egen juristbyrå med tonvikt på musikbranschen.

Marknadsrätten. En introduktion är en grundläggande lärobok med särskild tonvikt på den svenska marknadsrättens kärnområden – konkurrens- och marknadsföringslagstiftningen. Boken tar också upp annan marknadsrelaterad lagstiftning liksom systemen för näringslivets självreglering på marknaden. Gällande svensk rätt sätts in i ett såväl historiskt som vidare europeiskt och internationellt marknadsperspektiv.

Denna nionde upplaga har framför allt reviderats och uppdaterats med avseende på de förändringar som har skett i den marknadsföringsrättsliga lagstiftningen med anledning av EU-direktivet 2019/2161 om bättre upprätthållande och moderninseringmodernisering av unionens konsumentskyddsregler – det så kallade Omnibusdirektivet. Det bör också uppmärksammas att en ny konsumentköplag (2022:260) trädde i kraft den 1 maj 2022. Boken har därtill uppdaterats med anledning av senare domstolspraxis och rättsutvecklingen i övrigt.

Boken är i första hand tänkt att användas som kurslitteratur inom jurist- och civilekonomutbildning, men vänder sig även till advokater, bolagsjurister och alla som arbetar med konsumenträtt, reklam och marknadsföring.

I boken presenteras de juridiska förutsättningar och etablerade regler som gäller för utförande av bygg- och anläggningsentreprenader. Genom kunskap om dessa verktyg och regler kan oklarheter förebyggas, rättigheter tillvaratas och tvistiga situationer bättre hanteras. I denna andra utgåva har bland annat större tillägg gjorts vad avser partnering, likvärdighet, konkurs i entreprenad, lojalitetsplikt och inte minst frågan om hur man hanterar uppkomna kostnadsökningar i en entreprenad. Även IT och AI i byggbranschen ges en summarisk belysning.

Marknadsföringsrätt – den materiella rätten och processen behandlar alltifrån traditionella marknadsföringsrättsliga frågor – såsom vilseledande framställningar, aggressiv marknadsföring, jämförande reklam och gränsdragningen mellan marknadsföring och yttrandefrihet – till frågor om ansvar, utformning av förbud, bestämmande av vite och utdömande av vite. Därutöver redogörs för speciallagstiftning med marknadsföringsrättslig anknytning. Bland sådan lagstiftning kan nämnas alkohollagen, läkemedelslagen, spellagen samt lagen om avtalsvillkor i konsumentförhållanden.

Boken innehåller rikligt med rättspraxis från såväl Marknadsdomstolen, patent- och marknadsdomstolarna som EU-domstolen och Högsta domstolen. Författarna belyser den praxisändring som skett på senare år exempelvis i fråga om transaktionstestets tillämpning vid bedömningen av otillbörlig marknadsföring. Dessutom behandlas den nya praxis som utvecklats avseende bland annat marknadsföring i sociala medier.

Den här boken vänder sig i första hand till jurister som vill ha en heltäckande genomgång av de lagregler och den rättspraxis som finns inom marknadsföringsrätt, men kan också komma till användning för marknadsavdelningar, kommunikationsbyråer och inom utbildning.

Detta standardverk inom idrottsjuridiken ger en heltäckande bild av idrottens bestraffningsregler och beskriver grunderna för tillämpning av specialidrottsförbundens olika tävlingsregler. I boken förklaras och kommenteras de bestraffningssystem som skapats i syfte att upprätthålla respekten för idrottens regler. Mindre förseelser kan åtgärdas under pågående tävling, t.ex. straffspark i fotboll, medan grövre regelbrott hanteras enligt de för alla idrotter gemensamma bestraffningsreglerna i Riksidrottsförbundets (RF) stadgar samt antidoping- respektive matchfixingreglementet. Båda författarna har, som ledamöter i RF:s stadgekommitté, aktivt deltagit i framtagningen av dessa regelverk.

Boken vänder sig till jurister och ledamöter i idrottens olika disciplinorgan och tävlingskommittéer samt alla andra som vill ha kunskap om reglerna och om hanteringen av dessa. Den kan med fördel användas som ett stöd i informations- och utbildningsverksamhet.

Svensk och europeisk marknadsrätt 1 är en grundläggande bok om konkurrensrätten och marknadsekonomins rättsliga grundvalar. Boken ger en samlad framställning av ämnesområdet med betoning på principerna och de materiella huvudreglerna. I första hand läggs fokus på den svenska konkurrensrätten. Den behandlas dock fortlöpande mot bakgrund av läget inom EU.

Svensk och europeisk marknadsrätt 1 tar främst upp konkurrenslagstiftningens uppbyggnad, förbudet mot konkurrensbegränsande avtal och samordnade förfaranden, möjligheterna till undantag, missbruk av dominerande ställning, koncentrationskontrollen samt förfarande och sanktioner etc. Här belyses bakgrundsvis EU:s inre marknadsrätt, skyddet för näringsfriheten, tillåtligheten av monopol och statsstöd, offentlig upphandling, angränsande avtals- och skadeståndsrättsliga frågor m.m.

Denna sjätte upplaga är helt aktualiserad med hänsyn till den snabba rättsutvecklingen. Nya regler om horisontella och vertikala avtala samt Konkurrensverkets nya befogenheter behandlas i boken.

Boken är avsedd både som lärobok och som ett arbete till ledning vid praktisk tillämpning.

Marknadsföringsrätten är en grundläggande bok i ämnet. Den ger en samlad framställning av området på grundval av marknadsföringslagen och den bakomliggande unionsrätten. Denna andra upplaga är till stora delar omarbetad eller omskriven.

Boken behandlar både skyddet för konsumenter och för näringsidkare mot otillbörliga affärsmetoder av olika slag. Den lägger särskild tyngdpunkt på ämnesområdets centrala frågor, såsom bedömningen av vilseledande marknadsföring och efterbildning samt utvecklingen i domstolarnas omfattande praxis.

Boken är helt fristående i förhållande till Svensk och europeisk marknadsrätt 1, som särskilt behandlar konkurrensrätten.

Boken är avsedd både som lärobok och som ett arbete till ledning vid den praktiska tillämpningen av marknadsföringslagen.

ULF BERNITZ är professor i Europarätt vid Stockholms universitet och har lång erfarenhet av ämnesområdet som författare och rådgivare. Han ledde den statliga utredning som ledde fram till 1995 års marknadsföringslag. Han är även knuten till University of Oxford.

In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called David Irving, a prolific writer of books on World War II, "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." The following year, after Lipstadt's book was published in the United Kingdom, Irving filed a libel suit against Lipstadt and her publisher. She prepared her defense with the help of a first-rate team of solicitors, historians, and experts, and a dramatic trial unfolded. Denial, previously published as History on Trial, is Lipstadt's riveting, blow-by-blow account of this singular legal battle, which resulted in a formal denunciation of a Holocaust denier that crippled the movement for years to come. Lipstadt's victory was proclaimed on the front page of major news- papers around the world, such as The Times (UK), which declared that 'history has had its day in court and scored a crushing victory.'"

International Copyright: Principles, Law, and Practice surveys and analyzes the legal doctrines affecting copyright practice around the world, in both transactional and litigation settings. It provides a step-by-step methodology for advising clients involved in exploiting creative works in or from foreign countries. Written by two of the most esteemed experts of copyright law in the United States and Europe, this volume is a unique synthesis of copyright law and practice, taking into account the Berne Convention, the TRIPs Agreement, the ongoing harmonization of copyright in the European Union, and the impact of the Internet. National copyright rules on protectible subject matter, ownership, term, and rights are covered in detail and compared from country to country, as are topics on moral rights and neighboring rights. Separate sections cover such important topics as territoriality, national treatment and choice of law, as well as the treaty and trade arrangements that underlie substantive copyright norms.

Between 1964 and 1989, the US Supreme Court largely rewrote the constitutional law of the media. In doing so the Court protected virtually all materials from laws that penalized dissemination. But simultaneously the Court also approved some government policies that made access to information more difficult, causing Justice Potter Stewart to observe that the "Constitution is neither a Freedom of Information Act nor an Official Secrets Act."The media that existed during the twenty-five years of explosive legal change was relatively stable. Most Americans who wished to learn about news and public affairs received quite similar information. Over the last twenty-five years, and especially the last decade, cable, social media, and the internet combined to transform the media. The law that developed to deal with the old media is the law that now applies to the new media. Yet the underlying assumptions of that law, especially thatcitizens rationally consider various sides of a debate, may no longer hold.Media Law: A Very Short Introduction provides a description of the development and status of the law relating to all media — newspapers, magazines, books, broadcasting, the Internet — in the United States and the United Kingdom. It deals with criticism of government, taxation, defamation, privacy, libel, access to people, data, and places, obscenity, blasphemy, and the various issues created by the Internet.

The Ethics of Sport explores moral issues that arise in sports, especially competitive athletics, in a manner that is accessible not only to sports fans or participants but also to those critical of sports or simply interested in an introduction to the kind of moral issues raised by the practice of athletics. The issues considered range from the more abstract, such as the importance that should be assigned to winning in sports, to specific controversies such as arguments over the use of performance enhancing drugs, the nature of gender equity, and the evaluation of violence in competition. The book explores different sides of these issues and suggests reasonable resolutions to the kinds of ethical questions prevalent in the practice of sports.

The Ethics of Sport explores moral issues that arise in sports, especially competitive athletics, in a manner that is accessible not only to sports fans or participants but also to those critical of sports or simply interested in an introduction to the kind of moral issues raised by the practice of athletics. The issues considered range from the more abstract, such as the importance that should be assigned to winning in sports, to specific controversies such as arguments over the use of performance enhancing drugs, the nature of gender equity, and the evaluation of violence in competition. The book explores different sides of these issues and suggests reasonable resolutions to the kinds of ethical questions prevalent in the practice of sports.

Media Law Cases Materials and Commentary examines the basic principles of the substantive areas of law affecting the practice of contemporary media organisations including defamation, invasion of privacy and freedom of information.Using carefully selected excerpts from recent cases and legislation and insightful author commentary, the book introduces important media concepts and helps readers put these into both legal and media contexts. Updated case studies and questions throughout the chapters draw out concepts in the extracted source materials and encourage deeper discussion.

The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law takes the reader through the most important controversies and critical developments in law and U.S. sports. Over the course of 30 chapters, leading scholars explore this expanding and captivating area of law. The Handbook is the first book to gather dozens of perspectives on sports law controversies in the United States, and will be of interest to those who study and practice sports law, as well as journalists, broadcasters, and legally minded sports fans.The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law incorporates analysis of key historical events in sports law-such as the rise of free agency in professional sports and the concept of "amateurism" for college athletes-and their broader context. Contemporary legal controversies in U.S. sports and their accompanying questions are also of central importance: In a sensible legal system, how would long-term neurological injuries from contact sports be addressed? How would the use of racially insensitive team names be resolved? How would a seemingly trivial dispute over air pressure in footballs be studied from the competing perspectives of players, teams, and leagues? The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law weighs not just the facts, but how courts and lawmakers ought to consider the most important questions at stake.The essays in this volume also canvass the types of legal controversies in sports likely to surface in the future. This is particularly true of law and technology matters, including those related to broadcasting and streaming. Legal doctrine has been and will continue to be forced to adapt to these developments, and the Handbook both forecasts coming debates and outlines where the law may be headed.

3000. That's the number of marketing messages the average American confronts on a daily basis from TV commercials, magazine and newspaper print ads, radio commercials, pop-up ads on gaming apps, to pre-roll on YouTube videos and native advertising on mobile news apps. These commercial messages are so pervasive that we cannot help but be affected by perpetual come-ons to keeping buying. Over the last decade, advertising has become more devious, more digital, and more deceptive, with an increasing number of ads designed to appear to the untrained eye to be editorial content. It's easy to see why. As we have become smarter at avoiding ads, advertisers have become smarter about disguising them. Mara Einstein exposes how our shopping, political and even dating preferences are unwittingly formed by brand images and the mythologies embedded in them. Advertising: What Everyone Needs to Know® helps us combat the effects of manipulative advertising, and enables the reader to understand how marketing industries work in the digital age, particularly in their uses and abuses of Big Data. Most importantly, it awakens us to advertising's subtle and not so subtle impact on our lives-both as individuals and as a global society. What ideas and information are being communicated to us-and to what end?

3000. That's the number of marketing messages the average American confronts on a daily basis from TV commercials, magazine and newspaper print ads, radio commercials, pop-up ads on gaming apps, to pre-roll on YouTube videos and native advertising on mobile news apps. These commercial messages are so pervasive that we cannot help but be affected by perpetual come-ons to keeping buying. Over the last decade, advertising has become more devious, more digital, and more deceptive, with an increasing number of ads designed to appear to the untrained eye to be editorial content. It's easy to see why. As we have become smarter at avoiding ads, advertisers have become smarter about disguising them. Mara Einstein exposes how our shopping, political and even dating preferences are unwittingly formed by brand images and the mythologies embedded in them. Advertising: What Everyone Needs to Know® helps us combat the effects of manipulative advertising, and enables the reader to understand how marketing industries work in the digital age, particularly in their uses and abuses of Big Data. Most importantly, it awakens us to advertising's subtle and not so subtle impact on our lives-both as individuals and as a global society. What ideas and information are being communicated to us-and to what end?

Although girls and women account for approximately 40 percent of all athletes in the United States, they receive only 4 percent of the total sport media coverage. SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship program, dedicates less than 2 percent of its airtime to women. Local news networks devote less than 5 percent of their programming to women's sports. Excluding Sports Illustrated's annual "Swimsuit Issue," women appear on just 4.9 percent of the magazine's covers. Media is a powerful indication of the culture surrounding sport in the United States. Why are women underrepresented in sports media? Sports Illustrated journalist Andy Benoit infamously remarked that women's sports "are not worth watching." Although he later apologized, Benoit's comment points to more general lack of awareness. Consider, for example, the confusion surrounding Title IX, the U.S. Law that prohibits sex discrimination in any educational program that receives federal financial assistance. Is Title IX to blame when administrators drop men's athletic programs? Is it lack of interest or lack of opportunity that causes girls and women to participate in sport at lower rates than boys and men? In Women's Sports, Jaime Schultz tackles these questions, along with many others, to upend the misunderstandings that plague women's sports. Using historical, contemporary, scholarly, and popular sources, Schultz traces the progress and pitfalls of women's involvement in sport. In the signature question-and-answer format of the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, this short and accessible book clarifies misconceptions that dog women's athletics and offers much needed context and history to illuminate the struggles and inequalities sportswomen continue to face. By exploring issues such as gender, sexuality, sex segregation, the Olympic and Paralympic Games, media coverage, and the sport-health connection, Schultz shows why women's sports are not just worth watching, but worth playing, supporting, and fighting for.

Although girls and women account for approximately 40 percent of all athletes in the United States, they receive only 4 percent of the total sport media coverage. SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship program, dedicates less than 2 percent of its airtime to women. Local news networks devote less than 5 percent of their programming to women's sports. Excluding Sports Illustrated's annual "Swimsuit Issue," women appear on just 4.9 percent of the magazine's covers. Media is a powerful indication of the culture surrounding sport in the United States. Why are women underrepresented in sports media? Sports Illustrated journalist Andy Benoit infamously remarked that women's sports "are not worth watching." Although he later apologized, Benoit's comment points to more general lack of awareness. Consider, for example, the confusion surrounding Title IX, the U.S. Law that prohibits sex discrimination in any educational program that receives federal financial assistance. Is Title IX to blame when administrators drop men's athletic programs? Is it lack of interest or lack of opportunity that causes girls and women to participate in sport at lower rates than boys and men? In Women's Sports, Jaime Schultz tackles these questions, along with many others, to upend the misunderstandings that plague women's sports. Using historical, contemporary, scholarly, and popular sources, Schultz traces the progress and pitfalls of women's involvement in sport. In the signature question-and-answer format of the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, this short and accessible book clarifies misconceptions that dog women's athletics and offers much needed context and history to illuminate the struggles and inequalities sportswomen continue to face. By exploring issues such as gender, sexuality, sex segregation, the Olympic and Paralympic Games, media coverage, and the sport-health connection, Schultz shows why women's sports are not just worth watching, but worth playing, supporting, and fighting for.

Cheating is deeply embedded in everyday life. The costs of the most common forms of cheating total close to a trillion dollars annually. Part of the problem is that many individuals fail to see such behavior as a serious problem. "Everyone does it" is a common rationalization, and one that comes uncomfortably close to the truth. That perception is also self-perpetuating. The more that individuals believe that cheating is widespread, the easier it becomes to justify. Yet what is most notable about analysis of the problem is how little there is of it. Whether or not Americans are cheating more, they appear to be worrying about it less. In Cheating, eminent legal scholar Deborah Rhode offers the only recent comprehensive account of cheating in everyday life and the strategies necessary to address it. Because cheating is highly situational, Rhode drills down on its most common forms in sports, organizations, taxes, academia, copyright infringement, marriage, and insurance and mortgages. Cheating also reviews strategies necessary to address the pervasiveness and persistence of cheating in these contexts. We clearly need more cultural reinforcement of ethical conduct. Efforts need to begin early, with values education by parents, teachers, and other role models who can display and reinforce moral behaviors. Organizations need to create ethical cultures, in which informal norms, formal policies, and reward structures all promote integrity. People also need more moral triggers that remind them of their own values. Equally important are more effective enforcement structures, including additional resources and stiffer sanctions. Finally, all of us need to take more responsibility for combatting cheating. We need not only to subject our own conduct to more demanding standards, but also to assume a greater obligation to prevent and report misconduct. Sustaining a culture that actively discourages cheating is a collective responsibility, and one in which we all have a substantial stake.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book is the culmination of nearly six years of research initiated by Fred Cate and Jim Dempsey to examine national practices and laws regarding systematic government access to personal information held by private-sector companies. Leading an effort sponsored by The Privacy Projects, they commissioned a series of country reports, asking national experts to uncover what they could about government demands on telecommunications providers and other private-sector companies to disclose bulk information about their customers. Their initial research found disturbing indications of systematic access in countries around the world. These data collection programs, often undertaken in the name of national security, were cloaked in secrecy and largely immune from oversight, posing serious threats to personal privacy. After the Snowden leaks confirmed these initial findings, the project morphed into something more ambitious: an effort to explore what should be the rules for government access to private-sector data, and how companies should respond to government demands for access. initiated by Fred Cate and James Dempsey to examine the This book contains twelve updated country reports plus eleven analytic chapters that present descriptive and normative frameworks for assessing national surveillance laws, survey evolving international law and human rights principles applicable to government surveillance, and describe oversight mechanisms. It also explores the concept of accountability and the role of encryption in shaping the surveillance debate. Cate and Dempsey conclude by offering recommendations for both governments and industry.

A detailed argument of how our government has interfered in the direction of America's media landscape that traces major transformations in media since the printing press and charts a path for reform. In The Changing Ecosystem of the News, Martha Minow takes stock of the new media landscape. She focuses on the extent to which our constitutional system is to blame for the current parlous state of affairs and on our government's responsibilities for alleviating the problem. As Minow shows, the First Amendment of the US Constitution assumes the existence and durability of a private industry. Although the First Amendment does not govern the conduct of entirely private enterprises, nothing in the Constitution forecloses government action to regulate concentrated economic power, to require disclosure of who is financing communications, or to support news initiatives where there are market failures. Moreover, the federal government has contributed financial resources, laws, and regulations to develop and shape media in the United States. Thus, Minow argues that the transformation of media from printing presses to the internet was shaped by deliberate government policies that influenced the direction of private enterprise. In short, the government has crafted the direction and contours of America's media ecosystem.Building upon this basic argument, Minow outlines an array of reforms, including a new fairness doctrine, regulating digital platforms as public utilities, using antitrust authority to regulate the media, policing fraud, and more robust funding of public media. As she stresses, such reforms are not merely plausible ideas; they are the kinds of initiatives needed if the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press continues to hold meaning in the twenty-first century.

Affectionately known simply as McNae's, this book prevails as journalism's most succinct authority on media law since its inception in 1954.The new edition captures the essence of this hotly debated and evolving area of law. The authors' expertise in media reporting and teaching ensures McNae's is accessible for students and journalists, giving you the essentials and encouraging intellectual acuity as the complexities of the law are laid bare.McNae's practical approach includes features that highlight important information, such as case detail, need-to-know points, and cross references that explore how different elements of the law interact with each other.Published in partnership with the National Council for the Training of Journalists, McNae's is an indispensable media law guide that imbues confidence in students and supports and assures journalists undertaking their everyday work.Digital formats and resourcesThe twenty-sixth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported with online resources.- The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks- Comprehensive online resources accompany the text. Visit www.mcnaes.com to access new self-test questions with feedback to solidify students' understanding, regular updates from the authors to keep readers abreast of the law, and additional material on important topics within the book.

Written by a specialist team of academics and media barristers, The Law of Privacy and the Media gives expert guidance for practitioners working on cases relating to privacy and the media and will be of value to academics with an interest in this field. The book offers an overview of English media privacy law, outlining key legislation and legal rules. It includes comparative perspectives and addresses current debates about the form and scope of modern privacy protection. The 4th edition of The Law of Privacy and the Media has been fully updated to address numerous changes to the legal landscape since the last edition, including the impact of Brexit on privacy protection. The book provides detailed but accessible chapters on GDPR and the various forms of wrongful publication of personal information, as well as intrusion into physical privacy, before considering justifications and defences, remedies, and the procedure to be followed in such cases. It deals in detail with practice in media law cases, including how to obtain and challenge derogations from open justice, harassment by speech, data protection law as it relates to the media, and the media regulatory codes, covering OFCOM and IPSO decisions. Since the publication of the first edition in 2002, The Law of Privacy and The Media has established itself as the leading reference work on the rapidly developing law of privacy in England and Wales. It has been frequently referred to in privacy cases, with extracts cited with approval in judgments at all levels. This new edition brings the work fully up to date offering detailed, practical, and authoritative guidance, essential for practitioners in this area.

This is the first book to explore the broad influence of computers and television on the evolution of the US legal process.

This book is about how the legal profession has been and will be revolutionized by technological change. Throughout, Katch considers what kinds of law-related interactions are becoming possible in the new electronic era, and how legal interactions (e.g. contracts, copyright) are being changed.

There is much controversy about the dangers of a free media when it comes to children and adolescents. Many believe that this constitutional right should be amended, altered, or revoked entirely to prevent the young from being negatively influenced. Graphic violence, sexual content, and the depiction of cigarette smoking have all come under fire as being unacceptable in media that is geared towards adolescents, from television and movies to magazines and advertising.This book presents a synthesis of all current knowledge about the developmental effects of a free media on adolescents. All findings are assessed within the context of normal adolescent development. Both legal restrictions and less formal regulatory bodies (schools, parent groups etc.) are reviewed to present a full picture of the ways in which a free media is constrained to protect adolescents' development.

Violations of international law and human rights laws are the plague of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. People's inhumanity to people escalates as wars proliferate and respect for human rights and the laws of war diminish. In Decoding International Law: Semiotics and the Humanities, Professor Susan Tiefenbrun analyzes international law as represented artfully in the humanities.Mass violence and flagrant violations of human rights have a dramatic effect that naturally appeals to writers, film makers, artists, philosophers, historians, and legal scholars who represent these horrors indirectly through various media and in coded language. This reader-friendly book enables us to comprehend and decode international law and human rights laws by interpreting meanings concealed in great works of art, literature, film and the humanities. Here, the author adopts an interdisciplinary method of interpretation based on the science of signs, linguistics, stylistics, and an in-depth analysis of the work's cultural context. This book unravels the complexities of such controversial issues as terrorism, civil disobedience, women's and children's human rights, and the piracy of intellectual property. It provides in-depth analyses of diverse literary works: Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and the movie Hotel Rwanda (both representing terrorism); Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail; two documentary films about women and family law in Iran, Divorce Iranian Style and Two Women; Lisa See's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (women's human rights and human trafficking in China); Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation (shedding light on child soldiering and trafficking in Africa), and much more.

Slander and libel cases are largely about how one party uses language in ways that are claimed to defame one another. Linguistic expertise can be central to the case. In The Language of Defamation Cases, Roger W. Shuy describes eleven representative lawsuits--involving newspapers, television stations, religious leaders, physicians, teachers, entertainers, unions, insurance companies, and manufacturers--for which he served as a consultant. Shuy's linguistic analysis illustrates how grammatical referencing, speech acts, discourse structure, framing, conveyed meaning, intentionality, and malicious language affected the outcome of these cases. The Language of Defamation Cases shows how linguistics can be used to help resolve libel and slander cases. It will appeal to students and scholars of applied linguistics and forensic linguistics.

In Outrageous Invasions: Celebrities' Private Lives, Media, and the Law, Professor Robin D. Barnes examines the role and nature of privacy in Western democracies. Celebrities are routinely subjected to stalking, harassment, invasion of privacy, and defamation. These occurrences are often violations of their constitutional rights. Professor Barnes addresses growing concerns about the widespread immunity from liability enjoyed by United States tabloid publishers. Outrageous Invasions chronicles these experiences and the legal battles waged by celebrities in both the United States and European Union against a press corps that continuously invades their private lives. Professor Barnes analyzes doctrinal developments in cases from the United States Supreme Court and the High Courts of Europe. These cases demonstrate that American celebrities are entitled to, but not receiving, the same protections as their European counterparts. In Outrageous Invasions, Professor Barnes explains the value of the rights of the individual to democratic nations. She notes the importance of insuring appropriate protection for freedom of expression and associational freedom through meaningful regulation in the instances when speech rights collide with equally important values such as privacy and equality.