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JOU 531-- Media Law and Ethics

A study of the legal and ethical issues facing the mass media. The course will focus on the rights, constraints and responsibilities under the U.S. Constitution, federal and state statutes, administrative law, common law and voluntary codes of ethics. Specific topics include libel, privacy, contempt, copyright, broadcast regulation, the court systems, commercial speech, prior restraint, access, the civil and criminal judicial process and obscenity.