ADV 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Commercial Speech, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission
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Adv 260 chapter 12: public relations and the law. The first ten amendments to the u. s constitution. Public individuals have fewer privacy rights then private individuals. Public relations personnel must be aware that they can be held legally liable if they provide advice or tactically support an illegal activity of a client or employer. The area of liability is called conspiracy. As public relations person, you can be named as a co conspirator with organizational officials if you. Take a major personal part in the illegal action. Cooperate in any way with illegal action. A written falsehood is libel; a spoken falsehood is slander. Both are called defamation by the courts. Private citizens tend to have more success winning defamation suits then do public figures or corporations. With public figures, there is the extra test of whether the libelous statements were made with actual matice. A person filing a libel suit must prove that.
