Quiz #4 Review Sheet
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 (from the blog)
First Amendment
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
IndecencyArticles
Read the Books You Hate
Owning Your Own Future
