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Words that are not protected by the First Amendment because they are directed at an
individual and cause immediate harm or trigger a violent response, are called... - correct answer
✔✔Fighting Words
Broadcasting is generally considered to be the transmission of programming using... - correct
answer ✔✔the electromagnetic spectrum.
The legal term for "the use of reporting techniques that are wrongful and unlawful and for
which the victim may obtain damages in court" is... - correct answer ✔✔Tortious Newsgathering
A
nonpublic forum
is a government-held property that is OCCASIONALLY availablefor public speech and assembly
purposes. - correct answer ✔✔False
The legal term for "extreme and outrageous intentional or reckless conduct that causes the
plaintiff severe emotional harm" is... - correct answer ✔✔Intentional Infliction of Emotional
Distress
The U.S. government agency charged with regulating interstate and international
communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, cable, and broadband is the... - correct
answer ✔✔FCC -- Federal Communications Commission
, The legal rule that prevents a magazine publisher from being separately sued for libel for every
republished copy of a magazine issue that contains the potentially libelous words is the... -
correct answer ✔✔Single Publication Rule
To find material obscene under the
Miller Test
, a court must review the work as awhole and consider all of the following but which one? In
other words, which of the following is
NOT
a part of the Miller Test? - correct answer ✔✔If the work would be considered patently
offensive by any Supreme Court justice.
Which of the following is the legal term for "a false communication that harmsanother's
reputation and subjects him or her to ridicule and scorn"? - correct answer ✔✔Defamation
The term "appropriation" is defined in the law as... - correct answer ✔✔Using a person's name,
picture, likeness, voice or identity for COMMERCIAL purposesWITHOUT permission.
The appropriation tort protecting a celebrity's right to have his or her name, picture,likeness,
voice, and identity used for commercial or trade purposes only with their permission is their... -
correct answer ✔✔right of publicity.
A"
private facts
" tort is where the defendant is accused of having publicizedinformation that is ALL BUT which
ONE of the following: - correct answer ✔✔given to another reporter.
The legal term "
negligence