CMST 138 - Media Digital Law & Ethics

• Apply Supreme Court precedents in order to predict judicial outcomes when analyzing cases.
• Demonstrate an understanding of core decisions relating to the First Amendment.
• Identify the various laws in the American Legal system (e.g., common law, statutory law, equitable remedies, and administrative rules).
• Define various terms concerning new media technology, including “Internet,” “cyberspace,” “cyberporn,” “hacking,” and “spamming,” “P2P File sharing,” “Net Neutrality,” and “Traffic Throttling.”
• Define the meaning of ethics and apply various theoretical frameworks that have been used to understand ethics through the ages.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how ethics apply to television, radio broadcasting, and new media.
• Define “net crime” in the legal sense of the term.
• Describe Intellectual Property Law, including the basics of copyright, patent, and trademark law.
• Describe major principles of Media and Mass Communication Law.
• Identify and analyze specific cases concerning the law and obscenity on the Internet and/or other media.
• Describe precedent-setting Supreme Court rulings.
• Describe the history of communications regulation in the United States since the Civil War and apply this history to current & future issues surrounding the regulation of terrestrial broadcast and digital media.

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