Communications Law and Policy: Cases and Materials (Edition 7.5)

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Note: This Edition has been updated and replaced by Edition 8.0: https://doi.org/10.25810/8dqq-1d09

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This text has gone through many editions. The first edition appeared in 2001, published by Aspen Law & Business. The next three editions were published by Foundation Press, up to 2012. The fifth edition broke with past models and the traditional legal casebook industry. In 2016, Jerry Kang added a co-author, Alan Butler, and we decided to self-publish, adding Blake Reid as another co-author in 2023. Why? Well, in our view, the costs of legal casebooks had gotten out-of-hand, and legal publishers increasingly did little more than bind pages into a physical item. We’ve decided we can cut out the intermediary, with cost savings for students.

Throughout the editions, the book has retained one fundamental pedagogical principle: Organize the learning via concepts instead of industry. These concepts are currently: power, entry, pricing, access, classification, (indecent) content, privacy, and intermediary liability. This list has changed only a little in the past two decades, even as we have updated, simplified, and pruned.

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