SPLC

Legal Guides

Since its inception in 1974, the Student Press Law Center has gathered and created information on legal issues of interest to the student media. Much of that information is available here.

Research information is available on the following topics:

• Press Freedom & Censorship
  
  

• Public High School
• Private High School
• Public College
• Private College
• Independent/Off-campus Media

• Access to Records, Meetings & Places
  
  

• Records
• Meetings
• Places
• Campus Crime
• FERPA and Student Confidentiality

• Cyberlaw: Internet & Online Media
  
  
• Libel & Privacy Invasion
  
  
• Protecting Sources & Information
  
  
• Copyright Law
  
  
• Broadcasting
  
  
• Yearbooks
  
  
• Advertising & Distribution
  
  
• Online Legal Research Tips
  
  
• Obtaining Free Legal Help from the SPLC
  
  
• SPLC Law Library - Our collection of some of the court decisions, statutes, constitutional provisions and regulations that are most important to the student media.