Media Law: Materials and Cases

Media Law Material and Cases was created by Jon Pfeiffer, an adjunct professor at the Seaver College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at Pepperdine University. Mr. Pfeiffer teaches Media Law (COM 570) and has twice received the Outstanding Adjunct Teaching Award.

COM 570 Covers First Amendment issues as well as defamation, advertising, obscenity, indecency, privacy (intrusion, private facts, false light and the right of publicity) and copyright issues. This book is a collection of all the necessary cases and note taking tools to be successful in COM 570.

The revised Fourth Edition (2021) includes new cases and decisions as well as updated edits throughout.

Public Domain Notice:
This book is a combination of two things: (1) original content created by Jon Pfeiffer and
(2) U.S. Court cases which are in the public domain. Jon Pfeiffer had edited the cases to highlight a
particular topic for his COM 570 students, and is then assembled in a unique fashion. Cases from the U.S. Supreme Court and lower U.S. courts are United States Government Works in the public domain. They may be freely copied and retransmitted (see 17 U.S. Code § 105).