Friday, November 18, 2016

Review Sheet for Quiz #4

The Role of The Agency in Entertainment Media (from the Blog) 
What is a talent agency (definition)?
How do Agencies make $?
What's the primary role of an agent/agency?
What are "package fees?'
Different kinds of agencies- literary/talent
Difference between "above the line" and "below the line"
What are the Big Seven Agencies? (APA, CAA, Gersh, ICM, Paradigm, UTA, WME/IMG)


Media Law (Info from the blog)
First Amendment
Prior restraint
Shield laws (reporter’s privilege)
Subpoena, Gag order
FOIA and Sunshine Acts
Law of Defamation: Libel vs. Slander
Thresholds of libel: publication, identification, defamation, fault
Summary judgment
Actual malice
Defenses of a libel suit: truth, privilege, fair comment and criticism
Public figures vs. private citizens
Privacy
Types—intrusion upon solitude, unauthorized release of private information, creating a false impression, appropriation of identity
Trespassing

Copyright-- Fair use provisions: purpose, nature, amount reproduced in proportion to whole, effect on the potential market value; 
life of author + 70 years; 95 years from time of publication or 125 years from time of creation, whichever is shorter.  
Can't copyright an idea, only the expression of an idea. 

Law of Obscenity-- Miller v. California
Three-pronged test to determine obscenity:
      1) whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work as a whole appeals to the most prurient interest;
      2) whether the work depicts or describes in a patently offensive way certain sexual conduct that is specifically spelled out by state law
      3) whether the work as a whole lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value
Indecency

Articles
Melania Trump libel suit
Rolling Stone Loses a Major Libel Lawsuit
The Rise of Fake News
Warner Bros., quietly thriving


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