MCOM 5037 - Communications Law

(3 credits)

This course covers the legal aspects of the media of mass communications: constitutional law as foundation of the right to publish; freedom of information; the right to comment; privilege, property and contractual rights; defamation; invasion of privacy; criminal responsibility in defamation, obscenity, fraud, monopoly, and contempt; administrative regulation; broadcasting and advertising.

Dual Listed With: MCOM 4037.

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