Media Studies (Compass Learning) – Chapter 7 Key Terms

In order for a public figure to claim defamation, they must prove actual malice, which is the clear intent to cause harm to an individual

A blanket-term used to describe the control or types of control placed on what people write, read, say or hear which can be directed at any medium from books and magazines to music and painting

Forbade the publication of "indecent material," or images or words of any explicitly sexual nature, on the Internet in order to protect minors; later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court

Rights given to an author or the creator of a literary, artistic, or musical work.

For a limited time, only the author can control how the product is published, sold, and reproduced unless he or she licenses someone else to do so

Expanded copyright to cover the digital versions of a creation

Passed by Woodrow Wilson during World War I; enacted in a order to catch German spies and informants, but like the Alien and Sedition Acts, it was also used to restrict the freedom of speech

A principle of copyright law based on the belief that copyrighted materials should be able to freely use information for criticism and commentary

Controversial FCC regulation (1949-1987) that required stations to air "equal time" to differing viewpoints

An independent government agency that regulates both foreign and interstate communications; has authority over cable television, cellular and landline interstate telephone communications, aviation, emergency, amateur, and professional radio broadcasting, satellite, etc.

When someone's privacy is encroached without consent

Any written form of defamation

Signed into law after the attacks on September 11th; brought many pre-Watergate allowances back to the White House, one of which allowed for the government to access telephone records, emails, and financial document without first obtaining a warrant

Two "top secret" document that exposed the U. S. activities in the Vietnam; one was a copy of a 47-volume study titled "History of U.

S. Decision-Making Process on Vietnam Policy," and the other, a 1-volume study called "Command and Control Study of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident"

The right to decide what information or images is revealed to the public

Right to not have your name or likeness used for gain without consent

The right to be free from public exposure or scrutiny

The right of the public to know information that might affect the Democratic process

Defamation in the form of a spoken statement or gesture

Required resident aliens to register with the government and made it an offense to advise or belong to any group that advocated the overthrow of the government