Law and Ethics Flashcards
Student publication that is not produced on school property with a student staff editing and publishing during non-school hours.
Alternative Publication
Publication of material when there is serious doubt or concern about its truth.
Actual Malice
Deletion of material on the grounds that it may be harmful to publish it.
Censorship
System of distributing the issues to readers.
Circulation
Exclusive right for the creator or owner of an original artistic, literary, or photographic material to make, distribute, and control copies of that work for a certain number of years as designated by law.
Copyright
To hurt someones reputation.
Defamation
Allowing explicit or implicit bias to cover the facts.
Editorializing
Forbids Congress from making any law that abridges the freedom of speech or of the press.
First Amendment
Legal concept that in a public school when the publication provides a forum for student opinion no one person stands in the position of the publisher and the state has the obligation to maintain the publication as a public forum.
Forum Theory
1988 decision that allowed the school to control student school sponsored expression.
Hazelwood v. Colmier
Unauthorized use of someone’s name or picture in ad; placing someone in a false light; intrusion; publication of private and embarrassing facts.
Invasion of Privacy
Material that is defamatory, published, and not provably true.
Libel
In general, material that is offensive to others.
Obscenity
Material that a source tells a reporter with the condition that he/she cannot report it.
Off the Record
To pass off someone else’s work as ones own.
Plagiarism
