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Media Law: A Very Short Introduction by Lucas A. Powe (Anne Green Regents Chair in Law and Professor of Government, Anne Green Regents Chair in Law and Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin) at Abbey's Bookshop,
Media Law: A Very Short Introduction
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Lucas A. Powe (Anne Green Regents Chair in Law and Professor of Government, Anne Green Regents Chair in Law and Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin)

Media Law

A Very Short Introduction

Lucas A. Powe (Anne Green Regents Chair in Law and Professor of Government, Anne Green Regents Chair in Law and Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin)

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English
Oxford University Press Inc
01 January 2025
Entertainment & media law
Series: Very Short Introductions
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 that citizens 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.
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Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 175mm,  Width: 111mm, 
ISBN:   9780190219727
ISBN 10:   0190219726
Series:   Very Short Introductions
Pages:   160
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

After clerking for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Lucas A. Powe Jr. joined the Texas faculty in 1971, where he is currently the Anne Green Regents Chair and Professor of Law and Government. He specializes in the First Amendment and the history of the Supreme Court. He has authored multiple books, including The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2008 and The Warren Court and American Politics.

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