--- In [email protected], "Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I recommend this one book over and over > again. It's a college text book called Mass Media Law (by Don Pember) and > it covers all the areas you need covered when you produce media for public > consumption. Andreas, you are awesome. You are absolutely right about this book. It is a great compendium with information that i often forget in the panic and frenzy over copyright, privacy, commercial reproduction, etc. Pember was a clear and sharp explainer and critic of media law, particularly regarding free speech rights coming into conflict with sedition laws (see this interesting interview here http://www.washingtonfreepress.org/16/Q&A.html ) However, Pembroke himself says in this freedomforum.org article ( http:// www.freedomforum.org/packages/first/privacyandthepress/part3.htm ) that general intrusion, apart from strictly commercial purposes, is on the rise and in conflict with many principles the legal istory has been concerned with. Most of this is regarding law enforcement, but i think it is analogous to other kinds of non-commercial intrusion, such as someone taking my pocture at a bus stop and sending it around the world because it looks funny or whatever. i personally think that, even though the law has been clear on general privacy and commercial exploitation, there is still much work to be done catching up with some of the rapid reproduction and distribution taking place today that was not anticipated in court even 10 years ago. For example, US law is presently interpreted to forbid me from copying, duplicating, and distributing a Metallica song even if I hear it coming from a radio in a public place, and I'm not using it to make money. But the law remains fuzzy on protecting my face in the same way (non-commercially). I hope we can catch the law books up to this soon. All of that said, THANK YOU for bringing up the Pembroke text and bringing us to some authoritative opinions on the subject. I get tired of listening to voices who don't really know anything prattle on as if they do -- especially when it's me prattling! Thanks, Dave ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
