Defamation Via Satellite

A European Perspective
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-90-411-0536-3
Verlag: Wolters Kluwer

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Satellites enable European broadcasters to televise programs to vast transnational audiences. This activity is supported by a regime of freedom of transborder broadcasting under EC law, European human rights law and other areas of public international law. The program contents of broadcasts will on occasion give rise to claims of injury to private law interests, including the interest in reputation.

The defamation laws of Europe's nations are however by no means uniform: the same transmission may give rise to liability under one national system but to no liability under another. The material outcome of a given claim will thus rest on the existing regime of private international law applied by Europe's national courts, including rules governing forum, choice of law and foreign judgments.

It is against the above background of private international law that Defamation via Satellite examines Europe's prospects of realizing the public international law regime of free transborder broadcasting.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fisher, David I

Fisher, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationaler Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz, Medien-, IT- und Urheberrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations.
Introduction.
Part I: Relevant Aspects of Public International Law.
1. Freedom of Outer Space and Liability for Damage Under Space Law.
2. Freedom of Expression and Its Limits Under European Human Rights Law.
3. Freedom to Provide Services under European Economic Integration Law.
4. European Transborder Television Law.
Part II: Relevant Aspects of Private International Law.
5. Jurisdiction and Judgments.
6. Choice of the Applicable Law.
General Conclusions.
Bibliography.
Cases.
Treaties.
Official Publications.
Legislation.
Index.