Media freedom and regulation in the new media world
By: edited by András Koltay
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Ltd.; CompLex Kiadó
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Budapest, Hungary
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9789632954004
Subjects: Mass media; Law and legislation; Right of Privacy; Freedom of expression
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The press and freedom of expression / Russell L. Weaver; title: Argumentation typologies in the jurisprudence of the US Supreme Court related to the foundations and limitations of the freedom of expression, and their relevance to the sociology of values / Balázs Fekete; title: Digitalisation and beyond: media freedom in a new reality / Katrin Nyman-Metcalf; title: Governance issues of the new media environment / Rolf H. Weber and Ulrike I. Heinrich; title: Anonymous speech on the Internet / Vincento Zeno-Zencovich; title: Attempts at the regulation of network neutrality in the United States and in the European Union: the route towards the 'two-speed' Internet / Balázs Bartóki-Gönczy; title: Regulating press freedom in the United Kingdom and the constitutional response to the phone-hacking scandal / Peter Leyland; title: Public service media in the era of austerity: European Union law and national public service media provision / Lorna Woods; title: Unearthing the values of European media law / Petra Lea Láncos; title: The law of defamation in flux: fault and the contemporary Commonwealth accommodation of the right to reputation with the right of free expression / John Campbell; title: The burgeoning of freedom of expression in New Zealand defamation law / Ursula Cheer; title: Liability of Internet host providers in defamation actions: from gatekeepers to identifiers / Anne SY Cheung; title: The regulation of the defamation of public figures in Europe, with special emphasis on the Hungarian legal system / András Koltay; title: The right of publicity and the search for principle / Val Corbett; title: The European Union and the United States at a privacy crossroads ... again / Ashley Packard; title: Offensive symbols and hate speech law: where to draw the line? An American perspective / Robert A. Kahn; title: Prohibitions of incitement under international law: the case of religion / Jeroen Temperman; title: Terrorism speech and militant democracy / Clive Walker; title: Can religions or religious people be protected against blasphemy? Comments on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights / Bernát Török; title: Commercial influences on programme content: the German and UK approaches to transposing EU rules on product placement / Thomas Gibbons and Irini Katsirea; title: From activism to self-restraint: the strange case of the European Court's volte-face on broadcasting bans on political advertising / Tom Lewis.