Justice apps – mobile and web-based programmes that can assist individuals with legal tasks – are being produced, improved, and accessed at an unprecedented rate. These technologies have the potential to reshape the justice system, improve access to justice, and demystify legal institutions. Using artificial intelligence techniques, apps can even facilitate the resolution of common legal disputes. However, these opportunities must be assessed in light of the many challenges associated with app...
Soziale Netzwerke Im Internet - Eine Gefahr Fuer Das Persoenlichkeitsrecht? (Schriften Zum Wirtschafts- Und Medienrecht, Steuerrecht Und, #53)
by Carlo Piltz
Soziale Netzwerke im Internet, wie z.B. Facebook, sind Teil des alltaglichen Lebens geworden. Die Arbeit widmet sich den persoenlichkeits- und im Besonderen datenschutzrechtlichen Problemen und Gefahren, die bei der Nutzung solcher Dienste im Internet auftreten. Dies beginnt bereits bei der Findung des einschlagigen anwendbaren Rechts, setzt sich in der UEbertragung von Nutzungsrechten an eingestellten Inhalten, der Problematik der datenschutzrechtlichen Verantwortlichkeit und etwa der rechtskon...
From Amanda Knox to O.J., Casey Anthony to Kyle Rittenhouse, our justice system faces scrutiny and pressure from the media and public like never before. Can the bedrock of “innocent until proven guilty” survive in what acclaimed Seattle attorney and legal analyst Anne Bremner calls the age of judgement? When unscrupulous Italian prosecutors waged an all-out war in the media and courtroom to wrongly convict American exchange student Amanda Knox for a murder she didn’t commit, family and frien...
Cuba, the Media, and the Challenge of Impartiality
by Salim Lamrani
In this concise and detailed work, Salim Lamrani addresses questions of media concentration and corporate bias by examining a perennially controversial topic: Cuba. Lamrani argues that the tiny island nation is forced to contend not only with economic isolation and a U.S. blockade, but with misleading or downright hostile media coverage. He takes as his case study El Pais, the most widely distributed Spanish daily. El Pais (a property of Grupo Prisa, the largest Spanish media conglomerate), has...
Media and Law (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, #26)
In Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship, Mathieu Deflem and Derek M.D Silva have gathered an interdisciplinary team of leading experts to make a valuable contribution to the existing literature. This volume explores free speech and the control thereof from both a political as well as cultural lens. These topics have once again moved center stage in scholarly as well as popular discussions on what must, should, and should not be said in the public sphere of ideas, opinions, and taste...
We are all journalists and publishers now: at the touch of a button we can send our words, sounds and images out to the world. No matter whether you're a traditional journalist, a blogger, a public relations practitioner or a social media editor, everything you publish or broadcast is subject to the law. But which law? This widely used practical guide to communication law is essential reading for anyone who writes or broadcasts professionally, whether in journalism or strategic communication. I...
Gabriel Schoenfeld "brilliantly illuminates" (Wall Street Journal) a growing rift between a press that sees itself as the heroic force promoting the public's "right to know" and a government that needs to safeguard information vital to the effective conduct of foreign policy. A masterful contribution to the enduring challenge of interpreting the First Amendment, Necessary Secrets offers a gripping account of how our national security, now and across the American past, has been compromised by dis...
Informationelle Selbstbestimmung Im Web 2.0 (Xpert.Press)
by Stephan Doerfel, Andreas Hotho, Aliye Kartal-Aydemir, Alexander Rossnagel, and Gerd Stumme
Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms
This book addresses the question of how researchers can conduct independent, ethical research on mal-, mis- and disinformation in a rapidly changing and hostile data environment. The escalating issue of data access is thrown into sharp relief by the large-scale use of bots, trolls, fake news, and strategies of false amplification, the effects of which are difficult to quantify due to a corporate environment favouring platform lockdowns and the restriction of access to Application Programming I...
A media attorney and authority on First Amendment law argues that the public's growing disenchantment with the media could erode Americans' constitutional freedoms.
Digital Media Law offers a practical guide to the law of media and communication, focusing on digital channels, models, and technologies. It draws together the aspects of media law that are most critical for those engaged in the production and distribution of digital media, from traditional broadcasters and internet-based services to major internet platforms. As an expert scholar and educator in media law, Christopher S. Reed brings considerable experience as an in-house lawyer for a US-based m...
Posthuman Property and Law (Space, Materiality and the Normative)
by Jannice Kall
This book analyses the phenomenon of digitally mediated property and considers how it problematises the boundary between human and nonhuman actors. The book addresses the increasingly porous border between personhood and property in digitized settings and considers how the increased commodification of knowledge makes visible a rupture in the liberal concept of the property owning, free, person. Engaging with the latest work in posthumanist and new materialist theory, it shows, how property as...
Dieser Ratgeber behandelt die haufigsten Fragen in der patentanwaltlichen Erstberatung. Woran erkenne ich eine Erfindung? Wie kann ich meine Ideen schutzen? Welche Rechte und Pflichten hat ein Arbeitgeber und ein Arbeitnehmererfinder? Was muss ich tun um internationalen Schutz fur meine Innovationen zu erhalten? Wie recherchiere ich nach Schutzrechten und wie vermeide ich eine Schutzrechtsverletzung? Neben den Fragen des Patent- und Gebrauchsmusterrechts werden auch die Moeglichkeiten des Marken...
Bring Your Own Device
by Andreas Kohne, Sonja Ringleb, and Cengizhan Yucel
Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide
by Harris Tulchin, Mark Halloran, and Gunnar Erickson
In this comprehensive guidebook, three experienced entertainment lawyers tell you everything you need to know to produce and market an independent film.
Convergent Media and Privacy (Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business)
by Tim Dwyer
A lot of personal data is being collected and stored as we use our media devices for business and pleasure in mobile and online spaces. This book helps us contemplate what a post-Facebook or post-Google world might look like, and how the tensions within capitalist information societies between corporations, government and citizens might play out.
The Dershowitz Family Saga traces the significant modern events for world Jewry from the perspective of one immigrant family: their Galician origins in the 19th century; their Americanization and tribulations in the Goldene Medina; the tragedy of World War II and the Holocaust; the establishment of the State of Israel; the fall of communism; and the mass immigrations to Israel from Russia and Ethiopia. It takes the reader from Pilzno to the Lower East Side, from Brooklyn to Jerusalem. The aliyah...