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The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law

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The revised edition of the Bible of the newspaper industry. More people write for The Associated Press than for any newspaper in the world, and writers--nearly two million of them--have bought more copies of The AP Stylebook than of any other journalism reference. It provides facts and references for reporters, and defines usage, spelling, and grammar for editors. There are separate se...

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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance Alternate Value 8th Edition

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The best-selling Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (FCF) is written with one strongly held principle� that corporate finance should be developed and taught in terms of a few integrated, powerful ideas. As such, there are three basic themes that are the central focus of the book: 1) An emphasis on intuition�underlying ideas are discussed in general terms and then by way of examples that illus...

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Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity

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From "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" (The New Yorker), a landmark manifesto about the genuine closing of the American mind. Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society e...

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Mass Media Law 2009/2010 Edition

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This current and comprehensive market-leading textbook addresses the most relevant and important aspects of mass media law in the United States, stretching from the history and adoption of the First Amendment to the most recent judicial opinions, statutory enactments and regulatory controversies affecting speech across the print, broadcast, cable and Internet media. From the laws of libel and pri...

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The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It

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This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and TiVos represent ...

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The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook

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In this comprehensive guidebook, three experienced entertainment lawyers tell you everything you need to know to produce and market an independent film—from the development process to deal making, financing, setting up the production, hiring directors and actors, securing location rights, acquiring music, calculating profits, digital moving making, distribution, and marketing your movie. This al...

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Cases in Communications Law

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CASES IN COMMUNICATIONS LAW presents cases that will familiarize you with authoritative judicial reasoning on key principles of communications law. Most of the cases are from the United States Supreme Court and stand as precedents that all other courts in the nation must follow....

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Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

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As the dire history of planned economies highlights, small well-informed groups of people will often make far worse decisions than large numbers of people, acting independently, would make. In Infotopia, Cass Sunstein looks at the "wisdom of the many"--particularly as seen on today's Internet--illuminating many new ways of collecting and evaluating information and making effective decisions. ...

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This Business of Television

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•Practical and comprehensive—the only book of its kind •Revised edition focuses on the changing world market for televisionBroad in scope and rich in detail, This Business of Television has been the essential sourcebook for producers, writers, broadcasters, network executives, and other television professionals since the first edition was published in 1991. And as the television business co...

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Hollywood Dealmaking : Negotiating Talent Agreements

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Two entertainment attorneys and Hollywood insiders explain all the ins and outs of negotiating in the movie industry, including back ends, gross and adjusted gross profits, deferments, box office bonuses, copyrights, and much more. This easy-to-follow reference–written clearly, without confusing legal jargon–is packed with expert insights on distribution, licensing, and merchandising. Th...

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