Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an extensive database of international case law. This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. Continue reading
The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog
Month: November 2022 (Page 2 of 2)
This update covers media and freedom of speech cases before the United States Supreme Court, the Federal Appeals Courts and the Federal District Courts in 2022 and other media law news. Continue reading
For a man who made a fortune from electric cars, the Twitter takeover has turned into a fairly bumpy ride so far. Soon after buying the social media company for US$44 billion (£38 billion), Elon Musk said he had “no choice” about laying off a large proportion of the company’s staff. Continue reading
The government came under fire after The Mail on Sunday reported that former Prime Minister Liz Truss had her phone hacked by spies suspected of working for Russian President, Vladimir Putin whilst she was foreign secretary. Continue reading
Let’s talk about that tricky F-word, freedom. Media freedom, to be exact. Do you think the absolute freedom of the media is a fundamental pillar of democratic societies? If so, Damian Tambini’s Media Freedom may cause you to not only re-examine your stance but perhaps completely change it. Continue reading
A couple of developments on data protection damages: one from the EU which indicates that the likely direction of travel for the block’s highest court is that there’s no entitlement to compensation under the GDPR without showing harm which is more than “mere upset”; and the other from the UK which assessed damages for a personal data breach with no privacy implications at £250. Continue reading
One of the key moments of the 2011 Leveson Inquiry into press standards came when the Daily Mail’s then-editor, Paul Dacre, took to the witness box to accuse Hugh Grant of pursuing “mendacious smears driven by a hatred of the media”. Continue reading
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