TV Futures: Digital Television Policy in Australia

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Andrew T. Kenyon
Melbourne University Publish, Jan 1, 2007 - Computers - 426 pages
TV Futures: Digital Television Policy in Australia brings together leading writers from both law and media studies to examine the implications of the shift to digital television for the platforms and audiences, copyright law and media regulation. The book combines writers with expertise in media law and copyright law with those skilled in media policy and social and cultural research. Through its scope and topicality, the book substantially develops the literature on digital television to serve readers from across the fields of law, the humanities and social sciences.
 

Contents

Media Studies Copyright Law and
1
Platforms and Audiences
27
From Technological Abundance to Commercial Monopoly
54
Not All Good News
82
An Archaeology
108
What Are You Missing Out On? Big Media Broadcasting
135
Do They Facilitate or
166
So You Want to Tape Off TV? Copyright Law Digital
196
The Impact of Copyright Treaties on Broadcast Policy
242
Switching Off Analogue TV
277
The
315
Citizen Versus Consumer in the Digital World
343
Analogue Nation Digital Community
364
Whats in it for Children? Dedicated Channels and the
386
Select Bibliography
404
Copyright

Flag Waving in the Digital Jungle
214

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About the author (2007)

Andrew T Kenyon is Director of the CMCL (Centre for Media and Communications Law) and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne. He researches in comparative media and communications law, including defamation, privacy, copyright, journalism, and media policy. He is editor of the Media & Arts Law Review, a participant in the ARC Cultural Research Network, and president of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand. Recent authored or co-edited books include Defamation- Comparative Law and Practice (2006) and New Dimensions in Privacy Law (2006).

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