The director of Media Law at The Danish School of Media and Journalism, Oluf Jørgensen, has written one of eleven essays in the recently published book Freedom of Speech Abridged, Cultural, Legal and Philosophical Challenges
The book discusses freedom of expression as a universal human right, and analyses its philosophical foundations. It raises legal questions arising from the tension between basic rights, and between national and international law. It considers to what extent freedom of expression thrives or withers in an increasingly gobalized world of new technology. It discusses the Danish cartoons from a principled perspective, and it draws the lines of today’s controversies back to the twenty-year-old fatwa against Salman Rushdie. Freedom of Speech Abridged? is written by scholars and journalists in the Nordic countries, and represents a principled and spirited defence of freedom of expression.
Oluf Jørgensen contributes with a chapter on the fine line between the right to privacy and the media’s exercise of their freedom of expression. The essay revolves tightly around article 8 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Article 8 guanrantees everyone the reight to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence, and article 10 gurantees the freedom of expression with an emphasis on the essential functions the press fulfils in a democratic society.
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Updated 26-06-2009
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