Broadcast Law
Fall
Semester, 2008
Course Syllabus
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Week
1:
Week
1 Presentation
Common
Legal Terms
Week
2:
Week
2 Presentation
The
First Amendment
Gitlow
v. New York
Texas
v. Johnson
Near
v. Minnesota
Skywalker
Records v. Navarro
Bantam
Books v. Sullivan
R.A.V.
v. City of St. Paul
Simon
& Schuster v. Crime Victims Board
Keller
v. State Bar of California
Board
of Regents v. Southworth
Cohen
v. California
United
States v. O'Brien
Hazelwood
School Dist. v. Kuhlmeier
FCC
v. League of Women Voters of California
Week
3:
Week
3 Presentation
Virginia
Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council
Bates
v. State Bar of Arizona
Central
Hudson v. Public Service Comm'n
Bolger
v. Youngs Drug Products
Rubin
v. Coors Brewing Co.
44
Liquormart v. Rhode Island
Greater
New Orleans Broadcasting Assoc. v. United States
Lorillard
Tobacco Co. v. Reilly
FTC
v. Colgate-Palmolive Co.
Week
4:
Week
4 Presentation
Elements
of Defamation
Neiman-Marcus
v. Lait
NY
Times v. Sullivan, the
"actual malice" standard
Gertz
v. Welch
Checklist
For A Defamation Review
Week
5:
Week
5 Presentation
Indecency
Presentation
Roth
v. United States
Miller
v. California, the
"Miller" test for obscenity
Broadcast
Indecency, 2001
FCC report interpreting agency indecency rules
Week
6:
Week
6 Presentation
The
Right to Privacy,
the law review article that started it all
Hustler
Magazine v. Falwell
Campari
ad, disputed ad in the Hustler v. Falwell case
Week
7:
Class
7 Presentation
Midterm
Week
8:
Class
8 Presentation
Weeks
9, 10, and 11
Class
9 Presentation
About
the FCC
FCC
Organizational Chart
FCC
Video
Applying
for a Broadcast License
Renewing
a Broadcast License
Class
11 Presentation
Telecommunications
Act of 1996: Overview
FCC
Payola Rules
Week
12:
Class
12 Presentation
Sample
On-Air Employment Agreement 1
Sample
On-Air Employment Agreement 2
Labor
Law: Overview
Week
13:
Class
13 Presentation
Facts
About Sexual Harassment
Checklist
of Important Pre-Hiring Concerns
Illegal
Questions Checklist
Ethics
Assignment
Week
14:
Review
for Final
Week
15:
Final
Links:
Communication
Associations:
The
Association for Progressive Communication
American
Communication Association
Broadcast
Education Association
Central
States Communication Association
International
Speech Communication Association
The
International Communication Association
Lambda
Pi Eta (National Communication Honor Society)
Public
Relations Society of America
The
National Communication Association
FCC/Regulation:
Federal
Communications Commission
Communications Act of 1934,
complete as amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996
Telecommunications Act of 1996,
compete text
FCC
Daily Digest, where
the FCC tells us what it's up to each day
FCC
Broadcast Applications,
updated daily
FCC
Broadcast Actions, updated daily
FCC
Call Letter Changes,
updated twice monthly,
usually
FCC
Mass Media Bureau Public Notices, homepage
for apps, actions, call changes, and more
Federal
Trade Commission
Industry/Miscellaneous:
AFTRA,
radio artists labor union
Billboard
Magazine
Chicago
Indy Media
Columbia
Journalism Review, an
up-to-date listing of who owns what
DJ
Headlines
Illinois
Broadcasters Association
Media
Bistro
Media
Law Resource Center
Media
Recruiter
Media
Reform.Net
Museum
of Broadcast Communications
National
Association of Broadcasters
Radio
and Records
Radio
Ink, management
& marketing magazine
Robert
Feder, Chicago
Sun-Times media columnist--he knows you're fire before you do!
Socratic
Method, reserved
to inspire classroom discussions
Stop
Big Media
Journalism:
Journalism
Education Association
National
Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting
National
Press Club
National
Press Photographers Association
National
Scholastic Press Association
Newspaper
Association of America
The
Poynter Institute for Media Studies
Society
of Environmental Journalists
Society
of Professional Journalists
Station Directories:
100000watts.com,
comprehensive directory of AM, FM and TV in the US, Mexico and Canada
radiostation.com,
links to the FCC's databases
w9wi.com,
comprehensive TV
station listing
FCC AM
Search
FCC FM
Search
FCC
TV Search
FCC
CDBS Search
Radio-locator.com
Recommended
Reading:
T.B.
Carter, et. al., Mass Communication Law: In a Nutshell (West
2000)
Cornell
University, Legal
Information Institute,
crash course in media law
N.
Goldstein, ed., The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on
Media Law (Perseus Publishing 2002)
R.
McChesney and J. Nichols, Our Media, Not Theirs (Seven
Stories Press 2002)
R.
McChesney, The Problem of
the Media: U.S. Communications Politics in the 21st Century
(Monthly Review Press 2004)
D.
Simon, Big
Media: Its Effect on the Marketplace of Ideas and How to Slow the
Urge to Merge, law
review article written by the Instructor
J. Zelezny, Cases in Communications
Law (Thompson Wadsworth 2007)
