What about media law do citizens need to know when they publicly address legally challenging or dangerous topics?
Civic Media and the Law
Micah Sifry and Daniel Schuman address the question: “What are the legal dangers for publishing secrets in the crowdsourced era?”
Video: Thesis Presentations 2010. Florence Gallez: “Open Park Online News Production: A Proposal for a Code of Ethics for Collaborative Journalism in the Digital Age”
Florence Gallez develops a secure online space for media professionals and their audience to collaborate on news stories’ reporting and writing.
Podcast: John Bryant and Wendy Seltzer, “Authorship, Appropriation, and the Fluid Text: Versions of the Law”
John Bryant and Wendy Seltzer ask: What are the ethics and legality in the creation, sharing, and ownership of textual versions?
Authorship, Appropriation, and the Fluid Text: Versions of the Law
John Bryant and Wendy Seltzer ask, how does technology abet appropriation? How might it assist the useful designation of boundaries? Is the law keeping up?
The Business of Broadband and the Public Interest: Media Policy for the Network Society
Media policy in the United States has, since its inception, been governed by the principle that infrastructure providers should serve “the public interest.”
Podcast: Media in Transition 5: “Copyright, Fair Use and the Cultural Commons”
How has the American tradition of intellectual property law understood the relationship between originality and tradition?
