Companion website for
COMPARATIVE MEDIA LAW & ETHICS
by TIM CROOK
Published by Routledge on 15th December 2009
For details of the book, please visit Routledge.
Author's profile at Goldsmiths, University of London
The companion site to Comparative Media Law & Ethics provides a range of resources that are in addition to the text published within the book. Media Law in the UK and USA develops and changes with breathtaking speed and complexity. Indeed it can be said that the authors and publishers for standard media law textbooks for these countries are truly heroic in keeping up-to-date and finding ways to explain the developments to students of media communication and professionals alike.
The site is based on the contents of the book and is also arranged according to the headings and sub-headings within chapters. Back-up resources include additional tables of summarized knowledge and learning, internet links, mock trial and moot court exercises where it is suggested students can undertake the role of adversarial attorney/barrister/advocates for various sides and battle out case issues before panels of judges and juries of fellow students, podcast resources in sound and video, guides for journalists on how to frame their reasons for challenging censorship and legal restrictions imposed on them, and a form of ‘blogging’ by the book’s author on media law and ethics developments.
There will also be an expansion of the comparative media law and ethics resources through references to the jurisdictions covered in the book as well as the jurisdictions of other countries.
Comparative Media Law & Ethics podcasts by Tim Crook
Tim Crook Periodical bulletins analysing media law issues
Chapter 1 Primary Media Law of the UK and USA
Chapter 2 Media Jurisprudence, Media Ethicology and Media Ethicism
Chapter 3 Defamation Law
Chapter 4 Contempt/Protecting Fair Trial Law
Chapter 5 Privacy Law
Chapter 6 Media Regulation
Chapter 7 State and National Security Law
Chapter 8 Comparative Media Law and Ethics: Four Genres of Jurisdictions
Chapter 9 The Legal Problematizing of Journalism
Chapter 10 Human Rights and International Law for Journalists
Chapter 11 Racial and Religious Hatred
Chapter 12 Copyright and Intellectual Property Law
Chapter 13 Freedom of Information Legislation
Select Glossary
BibliographyWatch a short slideshow of what the book is about (requires Windows Media Player).
Tim Crook’s article in the Daily Telegraph 28th January 2010 on Public Interest/Private Lives.
Interviewed for Global Times on British phone-hacking scandal in 2011 otherwise known as 'Hackgate.'
Tim Crook providing live analysis in 2011 for BBC World Service Television on the developments in the case against the former head of the World Bank Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Media Lawyer, March 2010: "Mr Crook, who is senior lecturer in Media Law and Ethics and Head of Radio at Goldsmiths College, University of London, a visiting instructor on media law to the BBC, and has had a long and distinguished career as a working journalist, has produced an interesting, challenging and thought-provoking work covering a wide area and interweaving law, journalism, ethics and philosophy, and the ways in which they interact in different parts of the world. The book is suitable for undergraduates reaching the upper reaches of their degrees, and postgraduate students, as well as media professionals who work, or wish to work, internationally."
Global and Comparative Media 2010: 'Comparative Media Law & Ethics is an impressive volume that is designed to provide both practical and theoretical resources on media law and ethics for the United Kingdom and the U.S., while also referencing other countries including France, Japan, India, China, and Saudi Arabia... Throughout, media law and regulation is evaluated in terms of its social and cultural context.' Professor Chris Sterling.
Communications Lawyer September 2010: 'Comparative Media Law and Ethics, by University of London professor Tim Crook, is a timely contribution to the growing comparative literature on communication law... one of the few of its kind... It covers the Internet and its novel issues and also the ongoing “libel tourism” debate in England. He highlights how England parallels and at the same time diverges from the United States in contempt of court, defamation, and privacy. Equally important to the comparison of U.K. and U.S. law are how government and corporate institutions control journalistic sources and who defines the concept of “public interest” in news reporting. Crook discusses “neutral reportage” as a libel defense in U.S. and U.K. law in more detail than many other media law authors... His case study of reporting on secrets and source protection is compelling...From a research standpoint, the book is a good resource. It is judiciously documented, and its glossary and bibliography are comprehensive...Crook’s work will stimulate their interest in comparative media law and showcase how they can better appreciate their own laws by learning about foreign laws.' Kyu Ho Youm, The Jonathan Marshall First Amendment Chair professor at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.
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The content of this companion website only amounts to educational material and does not constitute legal advice to any general, specific or particular situation. Nor does reading anything on this site constitute any form of legal contract for legal service between the author and reader. Should you be facing any legal action for media publication, you should seek immediate qualified legal advice in your relevant legal jurisdiction.
The content is copyright/Intellectual Property protected. The author grants a limited and restricted licence to digitally, download, copy, print and quote to any extent for the purposes of education and media/journalism training only and provided that the educational institution, or private individual has purchased a copy of the printed or electronic version of the book Comparative Media Law & Ethics published by Routledge in 2009.
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The media law of any jurisdiction, particularly in the United Kingdom is a constantly changing and moving phenomenon. The author provides no guarantee that the site's content is immediately up to date with changes and developments, though tries to achieve this over a period of a year.
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