Media Law and Practice

• Wide-ranging coverage of the law regulating both traditional and new media, including newsgathering and broadcasting in those formats
• First book giving in-depth analysis of how the various forms of intellectual property law interact with media law
• Written by a team of academics and practitioners, combining rigorous academic discussion with analysis of genuine practice issues

Readership: Practitioners (barristers and solicitors working in media law); in-house lawyers for international, national and local media organizations; judges, especially (but not restricted to) those who may be asked to determine matters involving the media; academics who research or teach media law; post-graduate/advanced students whose study involves issues relating to the media and undergraduate law and media students whose degree includes a course on media law.

Edited by David Goldberg, Associate Fellow of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, Gavin Sutter, Lecturer in Media Law, Queen Mary, University of London, and Ian Walden, Professor of Information and Communications Law and head of the Institute of Computer and Communications law in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London

"This book is a powerful and valuable addition to the growing canon of UK Media Law publications" - Tim Cook, Goldsmiths College, University of London

"This new work draws upon the combined expertise of established academic authorities and leading practitioners to describe and analyse key developments across a range of inter-related fields such as defamation, contempt of court, freedom of information, media ownership and diversity, intellectual property, and the regulation of public and commercial broadcast media, including advertising rules...A well-written and accessible account of most of the important facets of media law" - Ian Cram, Communications Law, 16.1

A. Introduction
1.: David Goldberg & Gavin Sutter: Introduction
Who are "the media"?
Who are the media's consumers?
Sources of media "norms"
2.: Ian Walden: Who owns the media?
Ownership & Competition
Plurality of services
Universal Services
Listed Events
B. Regulating Reportage
3.: Siobhan Butterworth and Jan Johannes: Regulating Journalism and Newsgathering
Protection of journalists' sources
4.: Rosalind Mc Innes: Reporting Restrictions & Contempt of Court
Right of Access to the Media
Restrictions on court reportage - pre and post trial
Contempt of Court
5.: David Goldberg: Reporting elections
Reporting the election process
Reporting the political process more broadly
Advertising on issues of public concern
C. Regulating Distribution
6.: Lindy Golding: Intellectual Property and the Media
Copyright in original media content
Moral rights
Format Rights
Authors' agreements
Database right and media services
WIPO Draft Treaty on Broadcasters' rights in broadcast content
Trade marks
Patent aspects
Licensing media content
Publicity Rights
Competition issues
7.: Timothy Pitt-Payne: Information Law
Data Protection & the media
Confidentiality & Privacy
Freedom of Information
Official Secrets
Defence Advisory Notices
8.: Tony Ballard: Broadcasting
Broadcast media licensing
Changing nature of broadcasting
D. Regulating Content
9.: Lorna Woods: Legal and Extra Legal Regulation of Media Content
Regulation of Broadcast Content
PCC Regulation of Press content
Classification (film & video games)
10.: Ian Walden: Illegal Content
The Article 10 Margin of Appreciation
Blasphemy
Hate Speech
Obscenity & Indecency
Possession of Extreme Pornography
11.: Tarlach McGonagle: Cultural protections
Language rights
Local production
Independent productions
12.: John Enser: Commercial Communications
Advertising Regulations
Sponsorship
Product placement
Rules on amount / distribution