American Exceptionalism, the French Exception, and Digital Media Law (eBook)

Lyombe S. Eko (Autor)

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2013
330 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8113-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume explores and explains sameness and difference between the United States and France in the matters of freedom of expression on the Internet, the management of the tensions that arise between freedom of expression and the right of privacy of public figures, the comparative role of interest groups in the regulation of Internet content in both countries, the intellectual property implications of the digitization and transfer of journalistic works from print to searchable electronic databases, how courts in the United States and France managed the copyright issues that were triggered by the Google Book Search project, as well as the clash between intellectual property rights and freedom of expression in the area of parody or “gripe” web sites on the Internet. The volume presents American exceptionalism and the French exception as functionally equivalent logics that lead to different freedom of expression outcomes. This book makes a significant contribution to comparative communication law studies, an area that has not received serious academic interest.

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This volume explores the sameness and difference between the United States and France in the matters of freedom of expression on the Internet. The United States and France are liberal democracies that are part of the Western family of nations. However, despite their many similarities, they have a number of cultural and ideological differences. The United States is generally France's ally in time of war and its cultural nemesis in time of peace. One of the reasons for this unusual relationship is that the United States and France are self-described ';exceptional' countries. The United States and France are therefore two Western countries separated by different exceptionalist logics. Lyombe Eko uses this concept of exceptionalism as a theoretical framework for the analysis of American and French resolution of problems of human rights and freedom of expression in the traditional media and on the Internet. This book therefore analyzes how each county applies rules and regulations designed to manage a number of issues of media communication in real space, to the realities and specificities of cyberspace, within the framework of their respective exceptionalist logics. The fundamental question addressed concerns what happens when rules and regulations designed to regulate the media in clearly defined, national and regional geographic spaces, are suddenly confronted with the new realities and multi-communication platforms of the interconnected virtual sphere of cyberspace.

Autor

Lyombe Eko is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. He is also Co-Director of the African Studies Program.

Inhalt

Part I: Theoretical ApproachesChapter 1: American Exceptionalism, the French Exception, and Digital Media Law Chapter 2: Freedom of Expression in The United States and France: Political, Ideological & Cultural ContextsChapter 3: American Exceptionalism and Internet LawChapter 4: The French Exception (L’Expression Française) and Digital Media LawPart II: Case Studies: Exceptionalism and Media Law in the United States and FranceChapter 5: New Media, Same Old Sex Scandals: Comparative Exceptionalism, Freedom of Expression and Invasion of Privacy in France and the United StatesChapter 6: Intellectual Property Law and the Transfer of Collective Journalistic Works from Real Space to Cyberspace: The Case of the United States and FranceChapter 7: New Media, Old Interest Groups: Civil Society and Digital Media Law in the United States and FranceChapter 8: Google Books, “Linguistic Capitalism” and the Exceptional Intellectual Property Law Regimes of the United States and FranceChapter 9: Intellectual Property, Freedom of Expression, and Regulation of Internet “Gripe Sites” in the United States and France

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.7.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medienrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: Communication • communication law • communication law and policy • Digital media law • Europe • France • Intellectual Property Law • International and Global Communication • international communication law • Media Law • trademark parody • United States
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-8113-0 / 0739181130
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-8113-3 / 9780739181133