Media Entertainment Law 2nd Edition by Ursula Smartt ISBN 9780415662703 0415662702
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ISBN 10: 0415662702
ISBN 13: 9780415662703
Author: Ursula Smartt
The second edition of Media & Entertainment Law by Ursula Smartt delivers a robust, up‑to‑date exploration of UK media and entertainment legal principles as of 2014, with updates on defamation, digital copyright, ISP liability, and press regulation. Its comprehensive structure and accessible style make it excellent for law students or anyone studying or practicing in this dynamic legal field.
Table of contents:
1 Media Freedom
1.1 Overview
1.2 Historical development of free speech and press freedom
1.3 Theoretical foundations of media freedom
1.4 The open justice principle
1.5 Scotland’s privacy principle of actio injuriarum (‘wounded feelings’)
1.6 The boundaries of a free press: analysis and discussion
1.7 Further reading
2 Privacy and Confidentiality
2.1 Overview
2.2 The ‘red carpet’ rule: protection of private and confidential information
2.3 Media practices and human rights
2.4 The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on UK common law
2.5 A child’s right to privacy
2.6 Superinjunctions: protection of privacy or freedom of expression?
2.7 Internet privacy
2.8 A tort of privacy
2.9 Further reading
3 Defamation
3.1 Overview
3.2 History of defamation law
3.3 Libel tourism
3.4 Defamation Act 2013
3.5 Defences
3.6 Defamation law in Scotland
3.7 Internet libel
3.8 Juries or no juries?
3.9 Academic and scientific debate
3.10 Defamation and human rights
3.11 Will the Defamation Act 2013 make a difference to academics and libel tourists?
3.12 Further reading
4 Contempt of Court
4.1 Overview
4.2 Contempt at common law
4.3 The Contempt of Court Act 1981
4.4 Reporting on court proceedings
4.5 Problems of identification
4.6 Administration of justice
4.7 Procedure and punishment
4.8 Juries and contempt of court
4.9 Who still observes the law of contempt? Analysis and discussion
4.10 Proposals for law reform of the law on contempt
4.11 Further reading
5 Reporting Legal Proceedings
5.1 Overview
5.2 Hearings from which the public are excluded
5.3 Reporting on children and young persons
5.4 Special anonymity orders and restrictions
5.5 Sensitive court reporting and human rights: analysis and discussion
5.6 Further reading
6 Freedom of Public Information
6.1 Overview
6.2 Historical overview
6.3 The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)
6.4 Legal challenges under freedom of information legislation
6.5 Data protection and freedom of information
6.6 Has the freedom of information legislation made a difference to public life? Analysis and discussion
6.7 Further reading
7 Obscenity Laws, Extreme Pornography and Censorship
7.1 Overview
7.2 Abolition of blasphemy laws in the UK and new religious hate speech provision: a legal historical perspective
7.3 Art or obscenity: obscene publication laws in the UK
7.4 Extreme pornography and human rights: the ‘margin of appreciation’
7.5 Indecency or freedom of expression? Analysis and discussion
7.6 Further reading
8.10 General defences
8.11 Remedies
8.12 The future of copyright in the digital age: analysis and discussion
8.13 Further reading
9 Copyright II: Entertainment Law
9.1 Overview
9.2 Artists in revolt: what price piracy?
9.3 Phonograms and the recording industry
9.4 Musical works
9.5 Sound recordings, performers’ rights and extended copyright
9.6 Performing rights and collecting societies
9.7 Acquiring rights from third parties: who sampled whom?
9.8 Codifying cyberspace: towards legislation to protect authors and artists from piracy?
9.9 Further reading
10 Regulatory Authorities
10.1 Overview
10.2 Regulators and quangos
10.3 Regulating the print press
10.4 The Leveson Inquiry
10.5 What happens to the whistleblowers? Protection of journalistic sources
10.6 Regulating the communications industry
10.7 Film, video and games censorship
10.8 Advertising and online censorship
10.9 Media regulation ‘sans frontières’: codifying cyberspace or self-regulation in the digital age?
10.10 Further reading
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