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Digital Media Law
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Ashley Packard is associate professor of communication and digital media at University of Houston – Clear Lake, where she has chaired the communication program for the last five years. Beginning in the fall of 2007, she will give that up to chair the university’s new graduate program in Digital Media Studies, which is the first of its kind in Texas. She teaches Media Law, Communication Ethics, and Mass Media and Society in the undergraduate Communication Program, and will teach a graduate seminar in Digital Media Law and Ethics in the Digital Media Studies program. She has recently completed an entry on Conflict of Laws for Blackwell’s International Encyclopedia of Communication, and a chapter on Internet Law in the book Newspaper Competition in the Millennium, published in 2006. She publishes widely in journals such as the Journal of International Media and Entertainment, Communication Law and Policy, Journalism & Communication Monographs, Law/Technology, Legal Studies Forum, Communications and the Law and the Journal of Intellectual Property Law. This is her first book.
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Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction to the Legal System.

2. Freedom of Expression.

3. Telecommunications Regulation.

4. Internet Regulation.

5. Confl ict of Laws.

6. Information Access and Protection.

7. Intellectual Property: Copyright.

8. Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks, and Trade Secrets.

9. Defamation.

10. Invasion of Privacy.

11. Sex and Violence.

12. Commercial Speech and Antitrust Law.

Table of Cases.

Glossary.

Notes.

Index.

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"The author shows a unique capacity to clarify and illuminate, without over-simplification.  Packard has provided a valuable introduction to US media law." (Journal of Media Law, February 2011)

"I have never met Ashley Packard, but reading her Digital Media Law tells me she is someone whose work students will benefit tremendously from getting to know. Its relevance derives fundamentally from framing its subject in terms of digitalization and internationalization - the driving forces through which students today instinctively understand their lives and their professions." Robert Kerr, Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma

"A wonderfully readable book by an able media law scholar with a discerning eye for a range of real-life legal issues for the digital media.  Most important, the book stands out for its refreshingly global outlook." Kyu Ho Youm, Jonathan Marshall First Amendment Chair Professor, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication

 "The book examines established media law principles and new problems and issues, demonstrating both the continuity and adaptability of the law in a rapidly changing communication era." Anthony L. Fargo, Indiana University School of Journalism

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