Extra Credit Questions Flashcards
The International Copyright Law of 1891 required:
that all authors had to give permission to publish their work
What is the term that describes the current trend of large companies buying smaller companies so that fewer companies own more types of media?
Concentration of ownership
First book published in America:
Bay Psalm Book
A book that sells millions of copies by a well-known author is called:
Blockbuster
According to a 2014 report from the Association of American Publishers, what percentage of book sales are e-books?
12%
The rights to market a book for other uses—to make a movie, for example is called:
Subsidiary Rights
Small publishing houses dominate book publishing in the U.S. T/F
False
The biggest selling work published by colonial presses in the 1700s was:
Common Sense
A royalty is:
A percentage of the selling price of each copy of a book
Which British action turned most colonial printers into revolutionaries?
Passage of the Stamp Act
What was the U.S. federal government’s first attempt to control the press?
Alien and Sedition Acts
This refers to writing that, authorities claim, could incite rebellion against the government:
Seditious writing
This refers to a form of sensationalized reporting that emphasizes crime, sex, and violence:
Yellow journalism
This newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglas and was often called the most important African-American pre-Civil War newspaper:
The North Star
The American Law principle that truth is the best defense against libel was established by the colonial case of:
John Peter Zenger
Magazines are consolidating into a few large groups just like other media T/F
True
What distinguished The Ladies’ Home Journal from many other 19th century publications?
It crusaded against patent medicine ads and venereal disease
Investigative reporting was pioneered in the early 1900s by which magazine?
McClure’s Magazine
All of the following are consumer magazine’s except (Parenting, American Medical News, Time, Maxim)
American Medical News
The most striking characteristic of magazine development in the second half of the 20th century has been a trend toward:
Targeted audiences
The inventor of the phonograph in 1877 was:
Thomas Edison
In 1887, Emile Berliner developed this machine:
Gramophone
The man who created the long-playing record was:
Peter Goldmark
BMI was founded in part to avoid having to pay royalties to this company:
ASCAP
Music videos have replaced promotional tours as the main revenue source for recording artists T/F
False
The Radio Act of 1912:
Required federal licenses for people who wanted to broadcast or receive messages
This refers to the payment of cash or gifts by recording companies to disc jockeys or program directors in exchange for air play:
Payola
The Telecommunications Act of 1996
Removed the limit on the number of radio stations a company can own nationwide
The War of the Worlds broadcast demonstrated that alarming information could be misinterpreted by the public, and the radio stations had to take responsibility for their broadcasts T/F
True
He is credited with first photographing motion
Eadward Muybridge
The Hollywood Ten
Were put on trial for contempt, eventually sentenced to jail and later blacklisted
Global ownership and marketing is a trend in the movie industry today T/F
True
This motion picture company was the first company to produce serious narrative movies for the African American audience
The Lincoln Motion Pictures Company
These refer to the months when TV ratings services gather their most important ratings
Sweeps
The only type of television programming that didn’t come from radio is:
Talk shows
John F. Kennedy was the first president to appear on U.S. television T/F
False
The Communications Decency Act, outlawing certain Internet content:
Was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1997
The person who is most responsible for creating the World Wide Web is
Tim Berners-Lee
In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a state law banning violent video games for minors was:
A violation of free speech
This refers to the rules that require Internet providers to keep their networks open and available to carry all legal content
Net neutrality
