COM 509 - Communications Law for Public Communicators

S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
3 credit(s) Every semester

The course covers the First Amendment; systems of media regulation; corporate speech and election-related speech; commercial speech (advertising regulation); defamation; privacy; access to places, documents and meetings; reporter/source confidentiality; and intellectual property. Students may not receive credit for more than one of the following: COM 505, 506, 507, 509.
Shared Competencies Critical and Creative Thinking