Law, Business and the Magazine Industry
LEGAL AND BUSINESS ASPECTS OF THE MAGAZINE INDUSTRY, 1982, is #147 in the Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks and Literary Property Course Handbook Series of the Practising Law Institute, New York. It was written by Peter C. Gould and Stephen H. Gross and was designed as a reference manual for attorneys and related professionals.

Included are 17 articles on Acquiring Publishing Rights, Editorial Concerns for the Magazine Attorney, Printing Agreements, Direct Mail Promotion of Magazine Subscriptions, Solicitation Agreements, Subscription Fulfillment, Single Copy Distribution, Protection of Titles and the Format of Covers, Copyright Office Regulations, Advertising, Collective Works, Regulation of Commercial Speech, Advertisers and Agencies, Buying and Selling Magazines and more.

The 592-page softcover book is in Very Good condition, with only very slight edge/corner wear to the covers. Inside pages have no apparent defects. (3763)
Publisher: Practising Law Institute
ISBN: None  

Mass Media and National Development More than seventy countries were trying to accomplish what Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika called the terrible ascent from traditional society to economic and social modernity. How much easier would this climb have been if they had applied the full strength of modern communication to the task?

That was the question posed by Wilbur Schramm in his challenging book, MASS MEDIA AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLE OF INFORMATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Based on case studies and research from many countries, it was published jointly by the Stanford University Press and Unesco in 1964.

After an introductory section on the meaning of ‘underdeveloped,’ the book analyzes the role of information in economic and social development, and identifies what the mass media can do directly and what it can only hope to do. Chapters on the flow of information and the distribution of communication facilities in the world present data and assessments to be found nowhere else. After examining the costs and requirements of mass media systems, the book points out ways in which the media can be of direct assistance to natlonal growth.

Fernand Terrou, one of the world's leading scholars on communication law, contributes a chapter on institutional and legal problems of the mass media in new countries.

The 333-page hardbound book is in Very Good condition, although ex lib with the usual library markings. There are no apparent defects on the book or on the mylar-covered dust jacket. (6000)

Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: none  

Battling Censorship, Post McCarthy
Written by Paul Blanshard and published in this 1956 Second Printing by Beacon Press, Boston, THE RIGHT TO READ: BATTLE AGAINST CENSORSHIP offers a look at censorship and freedom of the press in post-McCarthy America.

The book is built around two questions: How much literary freedom exists in the United States? And how much should exist? In attempting to answer, the author acts as a part-time literary war correspondent, roving very rapidly over the most significant censorship battlefields of recent years.

To avoid confusion he discusses the questions not according to geographical location, but according to moral content, reviewing the great problem areas where censorship has become a factor because people consider the ideas in those areas worthy of protection. He tries to add to treatment of each problem-area enough moral speculation and elementary law to make this a practical handbook for the common reader who wishes to know why and how to defend the right to read.

Among the examples cited are changes made in the Girl Scout handbook (deleting references to 'one world' and internationalism) as a result of attacks upon it for recommending such ‘un-American’ books as Langston Hughes’ The First Book of Negroes.

Still timely, provocative and important, the 339-page hardbound book is in Very Good condition, although ex lib with the usual library markings. There is some minor edge/corner wear to the covers, but inside pages have no apparent defects. Interesting! (6114/red9rev)

Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: none