Entertainment and media law

The Olympic Games is unquestionably the largest and most important sporting event in the world.

Why should anyone care about the medium of communication today, especially when talking about media law?

Why should anyone care about the medium of communication today, especially when talking about media law?

This book shows how intellectual property turned the family into a market while, simultaneously, the market became a family.

This unique textbook offers a comprehensive overview of European and international media law, and how globalised communication has shaped it.

This unique textbook offers a comprehensive overview of European and international media law, and how globalised communication has shaped it.

An updated guide and commentary to the rules which regulate anti-doping in sport, including numerous case studies.

An updated guide and commentary to the rules which regulate anti-doping in sport, including numerous case studies.

Leading experts from common law jurisdictions examine defamation and privacy, two major and interrelated issues for law and media.

This second edition details the substantial developments in EU law during the last decade, including major cases, new treaties and new directives.

Leading experts from common law jurisdictions examine defamation and privacy, two major and interrelated issues for law and media.

This second edition details the substantial developments in EU law during the last decade, including major cases, new treaties and new directives.

This book analyses the role of businesses in regulating and influencing the exercise of free speech on the internet.

This book analyses the role of businesses in regulating and influencing the exercise of free speech on the internet.

Fully updated, this ninth edition remains the definitive source on the economics of entertainment in the United States and overseas.

This collection explores how creators extend the commercial life of their creative endeavours, and the impact of these legal developments.

This collection explores how creators extend the commercial life of their creative endeavours, and the impact of these legal developments.

This handbook brings together scholars from around the globe who here contribute to our understanding of how digital rhetoric is changing the landscape of writing.

This handbook brings together scholars from around the globe who here contribute to our understanding of how digital rhetoric is changing the landscape of writing.

The international nature of the sport industry presents many management challenges and opportunities for sport organisations.

The international nature of the sport industry presents many management challenges and opportunities for sport organisations.

Written by a working journalist with over 20 years' experience, Law for Journalists is designed to equip you with a solid understanding of the day-to-day legal principles and practices you will need throughout your career.

Should offence to religions be punishable by law, or does freedom of expression extend even to blasphemy?

Should offence to religions be punishable by law, or does freedom of expression extend even to blasphemy?

This book examines why copyright exceptions are necessary and the forces that have shaped the UK legislation.

In this expanded and updated second edition, esteemed television executive and Harvard lecturer Ken Basin offers a comprehensive and readable overview of the business, financial, and legal structure of the U.

This guide to the rules which regulate anti-doping in sport includes numerous case studies.

This guide to the rules which regulate anti-doping in sport includes numerous case studies.

Sports Economics focuses primarily on the business aspects of major professional sports, employing the principles of economics to address essential issues in the industry.

Sports Economics focuses primarily on the business aspects of major professional sports, employing the principles of economics to address essential issues in the industry.

This book updates and revalidates critical political economy of communication approaches.

While policymakers in the world reiterate the importance of protecting voice diversity, traditional media conglomerates and new social media giants make their task increasingly challenging.

Additive manufacturing or '3D printing' has emerged into the mainstream in the last few years, with much hype about its revolutionary potential as the latest 'disruptive technology' to destroy existing business models, empower individuals and evade any kind of government control.

This book intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses.

Crossroads in New Media, Identity and Law is a compilation of essays on the nexus of new information and communication technologies, cultural identity, law and politics.

This book uses global perspectives to address questions of media ethics and justice in a local and transnational global environment, and examines the common denominator running through such disparate investigations of theories and practices of media ethics and justice in the democracies of India, South Africa, Pakistan, and the United States.

Conventional wisdom views globalization as a process that heralds the diminishing role or even 'death' of the state and the rise of transnational media and transnational consumption.

The news media and the state are locked in a battle of wills in the world's emerging democratic states.

Was the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) designed as a definitive trade agreement, or as a stepping stone?

The first in-depth account of fictional sequels in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this examines cases of prose fiction works being continued by multiple writers, reading them for evidence of Early Modern attitudes towards authorship, originality, and literary property.

This study is based on the authors' fieldwork inside Cultural Enterprise Office, a small Scottish agency that supports creative businesses.

This book explores how the entire toolbox of intellectual property (IP) protection and management are successfully combined and how firms generate value from IP.

The Occupy movement and the Arab Spring have brought global attention to the potential of social media for empowering otherwise marginalized groups.

Published in conjunction with the International Bar Association, this high-profile collection of writings brings together judicial, legislative, regulatory, journalistic and academic perspectives on the current state of media laws in the UK and in the US, scrutinising their efficacy in relation to the rights for privacy and free expression.

A lot of personal data is being collected and stored as we use our media devices for business and pleasure in mobile and online spaces.

Adopting a truly global, theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, Media Pluralism and Diversity intends to advance our understanding of media pluralism across the globe.