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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.

Freedom of expression --- Privacy --- Libel and slander --- Calumny --- Defamation --- Slander --- Torts --- Social psychology --- Secrecy --- Solitude --- Expression, Freedom of --- Free expression --- Liberty of expression --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation

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Americans have long been obsessed with their images—their looks, public personas, and the impressions they make. This preoccupation has left its mark on the law. The twentieth century saw the creation of laws that protect your right to control your public image, to defend your image, and to feel good about your image and public presentation of self. These include the legal actions against invasion of privacy, libel, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. With these laws came the phenomenon of "personal image litigation"—individuals suing to vindicate their image rights. Laws of Image tells the story of how Americans came to use the law to protect and manage their images, feelings, and reputations. In this social, cultural, and legal history, Samantha Barbas ties the development of personal image law to the self-consciousness and image-consciousness that has become endemic in our media-saturated culture of celebrity and consumerism, where people see their identities as intertwined with their public images. The laws of image are the expression of a people who have become so publicity-conscious and self-focused that they believe they have a right to control their images—to manage and spin them like actors, politicians, and rock stars.

Privacy, Right of --- Personality (Law) --- Libel and slander --- Publicity (Law) --- Law --- Calumny --- Defamation --- Slander --- Torts --- Invasion of privacy --- Right of privacy --- Civil rights --- Press law --- Computer crimes --- Confidential communications --- Data protection --- Right to be forgotten --- Secrecy --- History. --- Law and legislation

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Libel and slander --- Privacy, Right of --- Invasion of privacy --- Right of privacy --- Civil rights --- Personality (Law) --- Press law --- Computer crimes --- Confidential communications --- Data protection --- Right to be forgotten --- Secrecy --- Calumny --- Defamation --- Slander --- Torts --- Law and legislation

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Until 1855, slanderous language was punishable in Britain's ecclesiastical courts. Waddams shows how the law worked not only in theory but in practice. The evidence of the witnesses supplies fascinating details of day-to-day events.

Libel and slander --- Ecclesiastical courts --- Adultery --- Fornication --- Illicit sexual intercourse --- Sex crimes --- Adulterous relationships --- Cheating, Marital --- Extra-marital sex --- Extramarital sex --- Infidelity, Marital --- Marital cheating --- Marital infidelity --- Marriage --- Paramours --- Church courts --- Courts, Church --- Courts, Ecclesiastical --- Ecclesiastical tribunals --- Tribunals, Ecclesiastical --- Canon law --- Church discipline --- Courts --- Ecclesiastical law --- Calumny --- Defamation --- Slander --- Torts --- History. --- Law and legislation --- History --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra

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Kathryn Temple argues that eighteenth-century Grub Street scandals involving print piracy, forgery, and copyright violation played a crucial role in the formation of British identity. Britain's expanding print culture demanded new ways of thinking about business and art. In this environment, print scandals functioned as sites where national identity could be contested even as it was being formed.Temple draws upon cases involving Samuel Richardson, Samuel Johnson, Catharine Macaulay, and Mary Prince. The public uproar around these controversies crossed class, gender, and regional boundaries, reaching the Celtic periphery and the colonies. Both print and spectacle, both high and low, these scandals raised important points of law, but also drew on images of criminality and sexuality made familiar in the theater, satirical prints, broadsides, even in wax museums. Like print culture itself, the "scandal" of print disputes constituted the nation-and resistance to its formation. Print transgression destabilized both the print industry and efforts to form national identity. Temple concludes that these scandals represent print's escape from Britain's strenuous efforts to enlist it in the service of nation.

Scandals --- Authorship --- Literary forgeries and mystifications --- Copyright infringement --- Piracy (Copyright) --- Libel and slander --- Authors and publishers --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Copyright --- Infringement of copyright --- Intellectual property infringement --- Anti-copyright movement --- Author and publisher --- Publishers and authors --- Publishing contracts --- Contracts --- Book proposals --- Literary agents --- Calumny --- Defamation --- Slander --- Torts --- History --- Unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted material --- History. --- Criminal provisions --- Law and legislation --- Great Britain