Books, Law, Media & the Law

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Norm Goldstein
The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law
by Basic Books (Paperback)

Gunnar Erickson, Mark Halloran, Harris Tulchin
The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook
by Schirmer Trade Books (Paperback) (Release Date: 2005-02-01)

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 all-new second edition has been completed updated.

Jonathan Zittrain
The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It
by Yale University Press (Hardcover)

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 the first wave of Internet-centered products that can’t be easily modified by anyone except their vendors or selected partners. These “tethered appliances” have already been used in remarkable but little-known ways: car GPS systems have been reconfigured at the demand of law enforcement to eavesdrop on the occupants at all times, and digital video recorders have been ordered to self-destruct thanks to a lawsuit against the manufacturer thousands of miles away. New Web 2.0 platforms like Google mash-ups and Facebook are rightly touted—but their applications can be similarly ...

Cass R. Sunstein
Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
by Oxford University Press, USA (Paperback)

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. Sunstein shows how the on-line efforts of many people coming together help companies, schools, governments, and individuals to amass ever-growing bodies of accurate knowledge. He describes for instance how Wikipedia, through an endless flurry of self-correcting exchanges, collects information on everything from politics and business to science fiction. Open-source software--which licenses programmers to use, change, and improve the software--taps the power of large numbers of people to spur technological development. And prediction markets--such as the famous Iowa Electronic Market, ...

Lawrence Lessig
Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
by Penguin Press HC, The (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2004-03-25)

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 encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, Code and The Future of Ideas, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. Now, in Free Culture, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they're inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation. All creative works-books, movies, records, software, and so on-are a compromise between what can be ...

Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Bradford Jordan
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance Alternate Value 8th Edition
by McGraw-Hill/Irwin (Hardcover)

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 illustrate in more concrete terms how a financial manager might proceed in a given situation. 2) A unified valuation approach�net present value (NPV) is treated as the basic concept underlying corporate finance. Every subject covered is firmly rooted in valuation, and care is taken to explain how particular decisions have valuation effects. 3) A managerial focus�the authors emphasize the role of the financial manager as decision maker, and they stress the need for managerial input and judgment.. . The Eighth Edition continues the tradition of excellence that has earned Fundamentals ...

Howard J. Blumenthal, Oliver R. Goodenough, Howard Blumenthal
This Business of Television
by Billboard Books (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2006-03-01)

Broad 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 continues to evolve, "This Business of Television" evolves along with it. This comprehensive guide to the legal, economic, and production aspects of the industry has been completely revised and restructured to reflect the rapid changes in television today, both domestically and internationally. A user's guide to television contracts, plus directories of associations, government agencies, and producers and distributors, make this book an invaluable resource for anyone involved with - or simply interested in - the business of television.

Dina Appleton, Daniel Yankelevits
Hollywood Dealmaking : Negotiating Talent Agreements
by Allworth Press (Paperback)

A comprehensive guide to the process of making deals in the entertainment industry. Designed for independent producers, writers, actors, directors, agents, studio employees, financiers and film students, it presents negotiations techniques and strategies from seasoned professionals. It explains the interests of creative executives, producers, entertainment attorneys, agents and managers, major guilds, and the role that each plays in the deal-making process. The authors detail key issues in matters of copyright, net profits and back ends, gross and adjusted gross profits, deferments and box office bonuses, and more. The guide also defines the vocabulary for acquisition agreements and employment deals for actors, writers, directors, producers and crew members. Included are 12 sample contracts, checklists detailing essential deal points, and a directory of entertainment attorneys in New York and Los Angeles.

John Zelezny
Cases in Communications Law
by Wadsworth Publishing (Paperback)

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.

Schulyler M. Moore
The Biz: The Basic Business, Legal and Financial Aspects of the Film Industry (Biz: The Basic Business, Legal & Financial Aspects of the Film)
by Silman-James Press (Paperback)

Today's film industry is a legal and financial obstacle course that all independent filmmakers must learn to master. In view of this, "The Biz" - a highly accessible overview of the industry's important business, legal and financial aspect - is a must-read for all filmmakers. It includes thorough explanations and discussions of: film-industry business jargon; raising financing; business structuring; securities laws; budgeting essentials; dealing with the guilds; loans; completion guarantees; the legal and financial ramifications of distribution deals; calculating net profits; film-industry accounting practices and contingent payments; copyright, publicity, and trademark laws; screen credits; talent demands; litigation problems; bankruptcy; taxation of film companies; and, the Internet distribution of film ...and much more. It also includes a dozen useful sample forms and agreements.

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