Media The Law category: 455 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The present book intends to critically examine the paths taken by the EU for cultural questions and how it integrates it into the whole of its parts. This means describing, explaining and evaluating the objectives, the nature, the extent and the impact of European interventions in cultural matters...
Literary Obscenities
U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
This comparative historical study explores the broad sociocultural factors at play in the relationships among U.S. obscenity laws and literary modernism and naturalism in the early twentieth century. Putting obscenity case law’s crisis of legitimation and modernism’s crisis of representation into...
Intellectual Property Theory and Practice
A Critical Examination of China’s TRIPS Compliance and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
This book explains China’s intellectual property perspective in the context of European theories, through a critical examination of intellectual property theory and practice focused on China’s compliance with the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The author’s...
Stealing History
Art Theft, Looting, and Other Crimes Against our Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
When compared to terrorism, drugs and violent crimes that occupy the news today art is not considered as important. But, as it turns out, art and cultural crime is currently ranked as the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world. What exactly is art crime? Why does art matter? And what is law...
by Amy Gajda
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
For decades, privacy took a back seat to the public’s right to know. But as the Internet and changing journalism have made it harder to distinguish news from titillation, U.S. courts are showing new resolve in protecting individuals from invasive media scrutiny. As Amy Gajda shows, this judicial backlash is now impinging on mainstream journalists.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
This book on privacy and data protection offers readers conceptual analysis as well as thoughtful discussion of issues, practices, and solutions. It features results of the seventh annual International Conference on Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection, CPDP 2014, held in Brussels January 2014.
The...
Beyond Data Protection
Strategic Case Studies and Practical Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
The book deals with data protection issues from practical viewpoints. 40% of the content focus on the Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) 2010 progress, whilst 60% of the content focus on leading comparative practical guidance from Europe. Part of the PDPA provisions is mirrored from European...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book offers a comparative perspective on data protection and cybersecurity in Europe. In light of the digital revolution and the implementation of social media applications and big data innovations, it analyzes threat perceptions regarding privacy and cyber security, and examines socio-political...
Defending the First
Commentary on First Amendment Issues and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Defending the First provides a collection of new perspectives on the First Amendment in legal and communication contexts. Editor Joseph Russomanno brings together a roster of major figures who have participated in the shaping of First Amendment law over the past 30 years. Readers are taken into a...
Revenge versus Legality
Wild Justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge. Taking up a variety...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This book features peer reviewed contributions from across the disciplines on themes relating to protection of data and to privacy protection. The authors explore fundamental and legal questions, investigate case studies and consider concepts and tools such as privacy by design, the risks of surveillance...
Orienting Hollywood
A Century of Film Culture between Los Angeles and Bombay
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
A new understanding of the culturally rich and historic relationship between Hollywood and Bollywood.
With American cinema facing intense technological and financial challenges both at home and abroad, and with Indian media looking to globalize, there have been numerous high-profile institutional...
Copyright Perspectives
Past, Present and Prospect
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
This book provides international and domestic perspectives on the law of copyright and is led by a foreword on the future of copyright by Dr Francis Gurry, Director General of WIPO and a chapter on the lessons for copyright policy in classical Roman law, by Justice Arthur Emmett. The body of this...
by Bart Custers, Alan M. Sears, Francien Dechesne
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
In this book, the protection of personal data is compared for eight EU member states,
namely France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Romania, Italy, Sweden and
the Netherlands. The comparison of the countries is focused on government policies
for the protection of personal...