Press Rights
Libel
Invasion of Privacy
Copyright
Press Wrongs
100
This law requires federal agencies to make most of their records available upon request.
What is FOIA (Freedom of Information Act)?
100
This is the best defense against a libel suit.
What is the truth?
100
When you invade someone's privacy, you're violating this type of person's right to be left alone.
What is an ordinary or average person?
100
Name one type of creative expression that is protected by copyright.
What is a book, a song, an image, a web page, a movie, a photograph, or a work of art?
100
This is when you reveal a confidential source's name after you promised not to.
What is burning a source?
200
These types of laws protect reporters from revealing a source or from having their notes confiscated.
What are shield laws?
200
Public figures or public officials need to prove this in libel cases.
What is actual malice?
200
This form of intrusion involves sneaking around on private property.
What is trespassing?
200
Copyright establishes who owns a creative work, and who controls this.
What are sale and reproduction?
200
If you slant a story by manipulating facts to affect readers' opinions, your reporting is this.
What is biased?
300
This form of privilege protects journalistic opinions from libel suits provided that the reporter is issuing opinions, not facts.
What is opinion privilege?
300
In order to win a libel suit, the accuser has to be this so that readers would know specifically who the reporter is talking about.
What is identifiable?
300
This involves giving personal details that are private, intimate or offensive.
What is public disclosure of private facts?
300
These are works that are no longer under copyright because it expired and can be used by anyone.
What is public domain?
300
If you're passing off someone else's words or ideas as your own, it's called this.
What is plagiarism?
400
These laws make it possible for the average citizen to sit in on or find out what went on in government meetings.
What are open meeting laws?
400
You can write whatever you want about a person as long as you have this from them.
What is consent?
400
This is what happens when you portray someone in an inaccurate way, by a photo, headline, caption or story.
What is false light?
400
This is you reprint part of a copyrighted work for journalistic purposes.
What is fair use?
400
This is when a reporter makes up quotes or sources so his or her story sounds good.
What is fabrication?
500
This allows journalists to comment or criticize in an editorial or review without being sued or censored.
What is fair comment and criticism?
500
To actually constitute a libel claim, a statement must either be false or this.
What is defamatory or damaging to one's reputation?
500
If you decide to use a photo of Mahkai to advertise mental health services for those suffering from anorexia, what could he sue you for?
What is misappropriation?
500
This is a name or logo registered by a business.
What is a trademark?
500
This is when a reporter accepts gifts or favors from a source.
What is a conflict of interest?
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