Comparative privacy and defamation [electronic resource] / edited by András Koltay (professor of law, National University of Public Service and Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary) and Paul Wragg (associate professor of law, University of Leeds and associate fellow, Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, UK).

"Providing comparative analysis that examines both Western and non-Western legal systems, this wide-ranging Handbook expands and enriches the existing privacy and defamation law literature and addresses the fundamental issues facing today's scholars and practitioners. Comparative Privacy a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Elgar)
Other Authors: Koltay, András (Editor), Wragg, Paul (Editor)
Other title:Elgar online.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020.
Series:Research handbooks in comparative law series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Introduction / Paul Wragg and András Koltay
  • Theoretical considerations 1. The origins and development of the right to privacy / John Campbell
  • 2. Privacy and incrementalism / Thomas D.C. Bennett
  • 3. Theories of reputation / Jan Oster
  • 4. Separated by a common language: The anti-paternalism principle in us and english defamation and privacy law / Paul Wragg
  • Privacy laws compared
  • 5. Weighing content: Can expression be more or less important? Categorical or case by case balancing and its (respective) disposition to rank relevance of communication / Matthias Cornils
  • 6. What is it the public has a right to know? The right to privacy for public officials and the right access to official documents - European and Swedish perspectives / Jane Reichel
  • 7. Do we need to separate privacy and reputation? USA, Europe and Korea compared / Kyung Sin Park
  • 8. Public image (un)limited: Privacy rights of the photographic subject in England and New York compared / Rebecca Moosavian
  • 9. What newsworthiness means / Amy Gajda
  • 10. Defamation by photo-manipulation under New Zealand law / S. Che Ekaratne
  • Data protection
  • 11. A European and German perspective on data protection law in a digitised world / Sebastian Bretthauer
  • 12. Right to be forgotten in the global information economy / Joanna Kulesza
  • 13. Enforcing privacy through individual data access rights - a comparative study / Rolf H. Weber and Dominic N. Staiger
  • Defamation laws compared
  • 14. Defamation: A half-century of changes (more or less) / Russell L. Weaver
  • 15. A comparative analysis of the treatment of corporate reputation in Australia and the UK / Peter Coe
  • Defamation, privacy and new technologies
  • 16. Liability of internet intermediaries for defamation: Beyond publication and innocent dissemination / David Rolph
  • 17. Defamation on the internet: The role and responsibilities of gatekeepers / András Koltay
  • 18. Privacy, remedies and comity: The emerging problem of global injunctions and some preliminary thoughts on how best to address it / Ron Krotoszynski
  • Country Chapters
  • 19. Free speech and the rights relating to the personality involving politicians in French law / Guilhem Gil
  • 20. Italian defamation and privacy law from a comparative perspective / Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich
  • 21. Canadian defamation and privacy law in comparative context / David Mangan
  • 22. Privacy and defamation in Australia: A post-colonial tango, or the operation of privacy and defamation in Australia without formal constitutional free expression protections / Mark Pearson and Virginia Leighton-Jackson
  • 23. South Africa's reasonable publication defence and the United Kingdom's public interest defence: Two sides of the same coin? / Dario Milo
  • 24. Defamation and privacy law in Japan - from a comparative perspective / Jun Shimizu
  • 25. The Chinese defamation law four decades on (1979-2019): Legal rules versus political uncertainties / Mei Ning Yan
  • Index.