MCM 405: Mass Media Law

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students will

1. explain the legal framework within which the mass media operates;
2. trace the development and constitutional growth of freedom of expression in Nigeria; and
3. discuss the privileges and restraints affecting the mass media, libel, sedition, privacy, contempt obscenity, copyright, etc. and government regulation.

Course Contents

Study of the legal framework within which mass philosophy bearing upon the mass media, the development and constitutional growth of freedom of expression in Nigeria, the privileges and restraints affecting the mass media, libel, sedition, privacy, contempt obscenity, copyright, etc and government regulation.