Comparative perspectives on the fundamental freedom of expression
By: edited by András Koltay
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Budapest
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9789632955339
Subjects: Freedom of expression
Description: This book is composed of six larger structural units dealing with (1) the fundamental theoretical questions of freedom of the press, (2) the regulation of new media, (3) the legal status of journalists, (4) the means available to the European Union to safeguard and regulate freedom of the press, as well as the eternal, fundamental questions of freedom of speech, (5) the law on defamation and the protection of privacy, and lastly, (6) the limitation of hate speech, including the problems related to blasphemy and {u0093}denial laws{u0094}.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The unamendable core of the United States Constitution / Richard Albert; title: The press and political community / David A. Anderson; title: What is press freedom now? / András Koltay; title: The constitutional guarantees of democratic political discourses and their regulation in Central Europe / Péter Smuk; title: Free speech in the twenty-first century / Geoffrey R. Stone; title: Question marks over the transforming digial medial system / Balázs Bartóki-Gönczy; title: Against civility? Arguments for protecting 'bad taste', disrespectful, and anonymous online speakers / Ian Cram; title: ISP liability in the United States and Europe: finding middle ground in an ocean of possibly / Anthony L. Fargo; title: Anonymous mass speech on the Internet and the balancing of fundamental rights / Péter Nádori; title: The Internet and democracy / Russell L. Weaver; title: Journalism, drones, and law / David Goldberg; title: ^; title: Freedom of journalistic newsgatherings, access to information, and protection of whistle-blowers under Article 10 ECHR and the standards of the Council of Europe / Dirk Voorhoof; title: Freedom of information in Australia and the role of the media / Judith Bannister; title: A comparative view of media coverage of criminal trials / Kevin W. Saunders; title: If media freedom and media pluralism are fundamental values in the European Union why doesn't the European Union do anything to ensure their application? / Steganie Pukallus and Jackie Harrison; title: Media policy for a new media environment / Andrej Školkay; title: An unprincipled mess: party anonymity in legal proceedings in the United Kingdom / Merris Amos; title: Damages for defamation / John Campbell; title: Defaming by suggestion: searching for search engine liability in the autocomplete era / Anne S.Y. Cheung; title: The regulation of defamation and insults in Europe / Zoltán Tóthe J.; title: ^; title: Internet intermediaries as judges of conflicts between the right to be forgotten and the freedom of expression / Rolf Weber and Ulrike I Heinrich; title: Memory laws and freedom of speech: governance of history in European law / Uladsizzlay Belavusau; title: The overlapping of fools? / Robert A. Kahn; title: #JeSuisCharlie: free expression in the age of global media / Joanne Kulesza; title: Media and incitement: context-based assessments by the European Court of Human Rights / Jeroen Temperman.