| Session | Schedule
| Subject Matter | Lecture
Notes and Readings |
| 1
| September 1 | Management,
Media, Stakeholders, Responsibilities, and the Balance of Rights | No
Reading. |
| 2 | September
8 | The
Structure and Practice of Media Regulation | Pember
and Calvert, C.1; Zelezny, C.1; McChesney, C.1; Lessig, pp.130-139. |
| 3 | September
22 | Freedom
and Responsibility: The First Amendment and Prior Restraint | Pember
and Calvert, C.2-3; Zelezny, C.2-3; McChesney C.2; Lessig C.1. |
| 4 | September
29 | Freedom
and Recourse | Pember and Calvert,
C.4-6; Zelezny, C.4; McChesney, C.3. |
| 5
| October 6 | Access
and Privacy | Pember and Calvert,
C.7-10; Zelezny, C.5-6; |
| 6
| October 13 | Commercial
Speech | Pember and Calvert,
C.15; Zelezny, C.12; McChesney C.4. |
| 7
| October 20 | Licensing
in the Public Interest. | Pember
and Calvert, C.16; Zelezny, C.9; McChesney C.5. |
| 8
| October 27 | Mid-term
(half class); Obscenity
| Pember and Calvert, C.13; Zelezny,
C.11. |
| 9 | November
3 | Copyright,
Trademark, and other forms of Creative Property | Pember
and Calvert, C.14; Zelezny, C.8; Lessig, C.2-5. |
| 10
| November 10 | Term
Paper Work Week; Discussion via Blackboard |
|
| 11 | November
17 | Evoluting
Notions of Property | McChesney,
C.6; Lessig, C. 6-10; pp.130-139. |
| 12
| December 1 | Fair
Trial and Free Press. | Pember
and Calvert, C.11-12; Zelezny, C.7. |
| 13
| December 8 | Regulation,
Content, and Creativity | Lessig
C.11-12, Zelezny C.10. |
| 14
| December 14 (Tuesday) | Media
in the Balance | McChesney, C.7;
Lessig C.13-15, Conclusion, Afterword |
| Final
| December 22 | Discussion
of Term Papers with Class | Everybody
elses Term Paper |
