Globalization is coming to media law, whether US or not, so inexorably. Google is appealing a trial court's privacy ruling against its executives in Italy. A New York law professor is being sued in a criminal court in Paris for libel by an Israeli book author for a book review published in a law journal. Wikileaks is based in Sweden, not in the U.S., because the Swedish shield law is one of the world's most protective.
Not surprisingly, more American scholars in journalism and law pay attention to the globalization of media law. Roy Moore and Michael Murray's MEDIA LAW AND ETHICS is the latest example. The fourth edition of the book (forthcoming 2010) will have a new chapter on international and foreign media law. David Kohler and Lee Levine's MEDIA AND THE LAW (2009) is another good example.
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Oh, I didn't know that Wilileaks' server is in Sweden. It seems that Wikileaks opens up new way of thinking about journalism as well as source protection. I was quite impressed by a recent New Yorker article of Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency: http://goo.gl/41dR
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