Comparative Defamation and Privacy Law [Paperback]

Leading experts from common law jurisdictions examine defamation and privacy, two major and interrelated issues for law and media.Defamation and privacy, major and interrelated issues for law and media, are examined here by experts from common law jurisdictions. Aimed at a wide legal audience, this book will be of interest to all those working on commonwealth or US law, as well as scholars from wider jurisdictions.Defamation and privacy, major and interrelated issues for law and media, are examined here by experts from common law jurisdictions. Aimed at a wide legal audience, this book will be of interest to all those working on commonwealth or US law, as well as scholars from wider jurisdictions.Defamation and privacy are now two central issues in media law. While defamation law has long posed concerns for media publications, the emergence of privacy as a legal challenge has been relatively recent in many common law jurisdictions outside the US. A number of jurisdictions have seen recent defamation and privacy law reforms, which have often drawn on, or reacted against, developments elsewhere. This timely book examines topical issues in defamation and privacy law focused on media, journalism and contemporary communication. Aimed at a wide legal audience, it brings together leading and emerging analysts of media law to address current and proposed reforms and the impact of changes in communication environments, and to re-examine basic principles such as harm and free speech. This book will be of interest to all those working on commonwealth or US law, as well as comparative scholars from wider jurisdictions.1. Defamation and privacy in an era of 'more speech' Andrew T. Kenyon; 2. 'Anyone & in any medium'? The scope of Canada's responsible communication defence Hilary Young; 3. 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe': the autopoietic inanity of the single meaning rule Andrew Scott; 4. New York Times v. Sullivan at 50 years: defamation in separate orbits David Partlett; 5. DefamatiolÃ2