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Media and Communications Industry Regulation - LAWS8054

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

Enrolment Requirements:

Academic Program must be 9231 or 5231 or 9220 or 5750 or 9200 or 5740 or 9210 or 9230 or 9214 or 5214.

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

The Media and Communications industry players operate in a network of direct, co-, and self regulation which continues to change rapidly in response to technological, structural and social change. This course will look in detail at that regulation, particularly in the telecommunications and broadcasting industries and seek to answer the hard question of where it's all going.

LLM Specialisation

Corporate and Commercial Law
Corporate Commercial & Taxation Law
Media and Technology Law

Recommended Prior Knowledge

Study of media and communications law at undergraduate level.

Course Objectives

The course proposes to teach law students about the network of regulation that affects the media and communications industries in Australia, particularly the broadcasting and telecommunications industries. The course aims to identify regulation that is legislative, co-regulatory and self regulatory and contrast these different approaches. The specific knowledge will be taught against the backdrop of key values, issues and concepts such as free speech, the need for a plurality of views in a democratic society, media power and influence, digitization and the rapid technological and structural convergence thus challenging students to ask and develop answers to the questions of why, who, what and how we regulate these industries.

Main Topics

Carriage Regulation