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Das Recht ist eine wesentliche Entstehungsbedingung moderner Literatur. Unter diesem Gesichtspunkt ist Literatur als justitiabel, als Gegenstand der Gerichte und des Rechts zu begreifen. Die Literaturgeschichte ist demnach auch entlang von Verrechtlichungsprozessen zu beschreiben: Die Zensur, das Urheberrecht und das Persoenlichkeitsrecht sind dabei nur drei Beispiele aus einer Vielzahl rechtlicher Bestimmungen, die pragenden und nachhaltigen Einfluss auf die Entstehung und Wirkung von Literatur...

Now in its fifth edition, this textbook combines comprehensive coverage with rigorous analysis of a key area of the law. The author illuminates how the courts strive to strike a balance between the freedoms and responsibilities of the press on the one hand, and an individual’s right to privacy on the other. Maintaining its coverage of the law across the UK (including Scotland and Northern Ireland) and the EU, the new edition has been brought up to date with expert insights into significant deve...

MAJOR PRINCIPLES OF MEDIA LAW is a comprehensive and current summary of media law. The text is revised every year to include the most recent developments in communication law through the end of the Supreme Court's term. Each August, a new edition is available for fall classes, with recent developments through July 1 fully integrated into the text, not added as an appendix or separate supplement.

Der Band vermittelt die juristischen Grundkenntnisse, die beim Ein- und Verkauf von Rechten zur Vermarktung von Verlagsprodukten erforderlich sind. Ziel ist der kompetente Umgang mit Verlagsvertragen aller Art. Schwerpunkte bilden das klassische Urheber- und Verlagsrecht auf Basis des neuen Urhebervertragsrechts, die Rolle der Verwertungsgesellschaften, Fragen der Nebenrechte und ihrer Verwertung sowie Fragen des Honorars.

Massenmedien konnen Personlichkeitsrechte in vielerlei Hinsicht beeintrachtigen, wobei die haufigsten Eingriffe die Privatsphare oder die Ehre betreffen. Die Frage nach dem rechtlichen Opferschutz stellt sich als auberst komplex dar, weil nicht nur die Interessen des Betroffenen, sondern auch die Freiheiten auf Information und Meinungsauberung in die von den Gerichten vorzunehmende Abwagung einzubeziehen sind. Der vorliegende Sammelband beschreibt die diesbezuglich einschlagige Rechtslage in 11...

This book grew out of the collective needs of media management scholars to explore the theory and practice of the field through case analysis. Although research studies exist in several different scholarly journals, and applicable cases are available through various sources, this work represents one of the first efforts to combine the broad concerns of the field with relevant cases. Approaching media management as a decision-making process, this book provides a framework and materials for analys...

The past decade has seen an explosion of writing about media ethics and accountability. Most of the work has been focused on the normative side of the subject: ethical philosophies, ethics codes, suggestions for how journalists (and other media workers) can make justifiable decisions when faced with tough ethical questions. Empirical research into media ethics and accountability, by contrast, is hard to find. Relatively little of the past decade's work-and virtually none of the book-length trea...

A New York Times Bestseller! On Halloween 1975, Martha Moxley was found brutally murdered outside her home in swanky Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years after her death, the State of Connecticut spent some $25 million to convict her friend and neighbor, Michael Skakel, of the murder. At Michael’s criminal trial, the State offered no physical or forensic evidence, no fingerprints or DNA, no eyewitness linking Michael to the killing. The trial ignited a media firestorm that transfixed the...

A lack of trust in online-transactions has been described as one of the most important obstacles for the development of e-business. Despite numerous activities in the fields of law and security, users have not yet gained the trust necessary for conducting e-business. This requires a new approach which is able to explain the importance and function of trust in the digital world. This book presents a new model of digital trust that is complemented by articles on law, security, business models and...

This book provides guidelines, tools, and real world examples to help assess and reform the enabling environment for media development that serves public interest goals. It builds on a growing awareness of the role of media and voice in the promotion of transparent and accountable governance, in the empowerment of people to better exercise their rights and hold leaders to account; and in support of equitable development including improved livelihoods, health, and access to education. The book pr...

The rise of the "information society" offers not only considerable peril but also great promise Beset from all sides by a never-ending barrage of media, how can we ensure that the most accurate information emerges and is heeded? Cass R. Sunstein here develops a deeply optimistic understanding of the human potential to pool information, combat groupthink, and to use that knowledge to improve our lives. New ways, many Internet-based, to share and aggregate information-including wikis, open-source...

Using the best scientific evidence, Drugs: America's Holy War explores the impact and cost of America’s "War on Drugs" – both in tax spending and in human terms. Is it possible that US drug policies are helping to proliferate, not prevent, a multitude of social ills including: homicide, property crime, the spread of AIDS, the contamination of drugs, the erosion of civil liberties, the punishment of thousands of non-violent people, the corruption of public officials, and the spending of billio...

Mit seiner hohen Kapazitat koennte das deutsche Kabelfernsehnetz nicht nur hunderte digitaler TV-Programme ubertragen, sondern ware auch ideal fur neue interaktive Dienste wie Highspeed-Internet und Internettelefonie. Das Buch skizziert in einem Szenario die wichtigsten Meilensteine auf dem Weg zu einem digitalen Kabelfernsehnetz und zu einer neuen digitalen Angebotsvielfalt.

Das Grundkonzept des Medienkonzentrationsrechts ist seit rund zwanzig Jahren unverandert geblieben und stammt damit aus einer Zeit, in der eines der in Deutschland heute meistzitierten Online-Medien "Spiegel Online" noch keine zwei Jahre existierte und derzeit die Schlagzeilen dominierende Unternehmen wie "Google", "Facebook" oder Portale wie "YouTube" noch nicht einmal gegrundet waren. Die methodische Erfassung medialen Einflusspotentials und seine rechtliche Bewertung werden angesichts dieser...

Im Rahmen des Spitzenclusters it's OWL sind in den letzten 5 Jahren technisch innovative Loesungen entstanden, die den Unternehmen einen Wettbewerbsvorsprung ermoeglichen. Dieses Know-how abzusichern und gegen Plagiatoren zu schutzen, ist Gegenstand des Projekts Pravention gegen Produktpiraterie gewesen. Entstanden sind durchgangige Methodenketten zur Erarbeitung von ganzheitlichen Schutzkonzeptionen, die weit uber die isolierten Ansatze konstruktiver Gestaltung des Produktes oder Markierungstec...

Freedom of expression is generally analysed as a bare liberty against restraint by state action. Underpinning rationales for freedom of speech very often imply, however, that the concept also has important positive aspects, and that to be truly 'democratic' the modern polity requires more than negative freedom. In contemporary conditions, this understanding of free speech raises matters such as media diversity or pluralism, the concept of voice and access to the public sphere, access to informat...

This book considers the significance of informed publics from the perspective of international law. It does so by analysing international media law frameworks and the 'mediatization' of international law in institutional settings. This approach exposes the complexity of the interrelationship between international law and the media, but also points to the dangers involved in international law's associated and increasing reliance upon the mediated techniques of communicative capitalism - such as p...

How to Avoid Legal Pitfalls on Social MediaSocial media is where your customers are--so it's where your business has to be. Unfortunately, this space is packed with land mines that can obliterate your hard-earnedsuccess in the time it takes to click a mouse. Written in easy-to-understand, accessible language, Social Media Law for Business reveals your legal rights and responsibilities in the fast-moving and ever-changing social media landscape. Learn how to:Create a social media policy for your...

This book explores how, in the wake of the Anthropocene, the growing call for urgent decarbonisation and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences for energy poverty, justice and democracy, especially in the global South. Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South brings together theoretical and empirical contributions focused on rethinking energy transitions conceptually from and for the global South, and highlights issues of justice and inclusivity. It argues...