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Comparative Defamation and Privacy Law
About this book
Defamation and privacy are now two central issues in media law. While defamation law has long posed concerns for media publications, the emergence of privacy as a legal challenge has been relatively recent in many common law jurisdictions outside the US. A number of jurisdictions have seen recent defamation and privacy law reforms, which have often drawn on, or reacted against, developments elsewhere. This timely book examines topical issues in defamation and privacy law focused on media, journalism and contemporary communication. Aimed at a wide legal audience, it brings together leading and emerging analysts of media law to address current and proposed reforms and the impact of changes in communication environments, and to re-examine basic principles such as harm and free speech. This book will be of interest to all those working on commonwealth or US law, as well as comparative scholars from wider jurisdictions.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Defamation and privacy in an era of ‘more speech’
- 2 ‘Anyone … in any medium’? The scope of Canada’s responsible communication defence
- 3 ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe’: the autopoietic inanity of the single meaning rule
- 4 New York Times v. Sullivan at fifty years: defamation in separate orbits
- 5 Defamation and democracy
- 6 ‘A reasonable expectation of privacy’: a coherent or redundant concept?
- 7 Media intrusion into grief: lessons from the Pike River mining disaster
- 8 Press freedom, the public interest and privacy
- 9 The Atlantic divide on privacy and free speech
- 10 The ‘right to be forgotten’ by search engines under data privacy law: a legal and policy analysis of the Costeja decision
- 11 Privacy for the weak, transparency for the powerful
- 12 The trouble with dignity
- 13 The uncertain landscape of Article 8 of the ECHR: the protection of reputation as a fundamental human right?
- 14 Vindicating reputation and privacy
- 15 Divining the dignity torts: a possible future for defamation and privacy
- 16 Reverberations of Sullivan? Considering defamation and privacy law reform
- Bibliography
- Index