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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810440903321

Autore

Piety Tamara R

Titolo

Brandishing the First Amendment : commercial expression in America / / Tamara R. Piety

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2012

ISBN

9786613532794

9781280128912

1280128917

9780472027729

0472027727

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Disciplina

342.7308/53

Soggetti

Corporate speech - United States

Freedom of speech - United States

Advertising laws - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-319) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Commercial and corporate speech -- The scope of commercial expression -- Why protect speech? Four fundamental interests -- Autonomy as a human interest -- Brands, information, and consumer "education" -- Advertising and manipulation -- Tough love paternalism -- The corporate person -- Commercial democracy -- Commercial expression and economic instability -- Commercial expression and environmental instability.

Sommario/riassunto

How the First Amendment has been aggressively and inappropriately expanded by commercial entities.