Week 1: Student Response and Assignment

WednesdayFeb 21 at 6:25pm

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The definition of law is the matter of constitutional right and regulations that are a written document in which people must obey. However, the sources of law with journalism is similar. The three sources of law are common, equity, and constitutional.

The first law is a Common law or what is known as (Pember & Calvert, 2013, p. 3) mentioned: “discovered law.” However, this law comes from the English days. Despite that common law has a million names discussed in the book, the answers a judge gives in court is how they reply to their own decision making. For instance, in journalism reporters will follow a specific case around to get information. However, if they make a mistake like leaking the person’s personal information in the story without them knowing, that is something to take up in court. The second law source is equity law and according to Pember & Calvert (2013) “equity continues the process of common law but with a little more flexibility and have verdicts when a case is ruled out (p. 7). The equity law in mass media is when someone pursues a lawsuit against a person who uses the owner’s information. With works that are in television, music or any other company that uses copyright, this is equity law. The third law source is the constitutional law and “because people have an unusually direct voice in the approval or change of a constitution, constitutions are considered the most important source of U.S. law" (p. 11). Communications associated with the constitutional law because the constitutional law has the first amendment, which consists of free speech. In communications, there is mostly speaking careers that talk about other people lives, and it is vital to know free speech because some individuals can take offense to what a writer reports.

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Reference

Pember, D. R. & Calvert, C. (2013). Mass media law (18th ed)

Retrieved from https://www.amazon.com/Mass-Media-Law-Pember-ebook/dp/B00HZ3B6C6