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'Periodicals and the Law' Network Online Seminar Series

This seminar series was initially organised during the 2023-2024 academic year by Aled Jones and Gioula Koutsopanagou, supported by a sub-group comprising Mara Logaldo and Nora Ramtke, and it is currently in its fifth edition.

Its purpose is to create a network for the creation of collaborative, transnational and comparative work on press regulation and press practices in print and visual material in and across different national contexts with respect to the law, and to the law-related professions of journalists, lawyers, lawmakers. and legal periodicals.

Subjects may include:

  • IP and copyright in the context of the notion of protected work, such as printed and visual material (photographs and artworks)
    moral rights (appropriation art, remixes)
  • ownership (authors and editors, printed matter, photographers, reporters)
  • exceptions and limitations (fair use), infringements, Creative Commons license, civil law protection (rights of privacy, right of publicity, personal data protection), fiscal policies, libel legislation, obscenity laws, state censorship, court injunctions, and state securityrestrictions (e.g. for national defence in wartime)

The field also includes studies of the persecution and prosecution of reporters, editors, writers and publishers, legal restrictions on ownership (e.g. anti-Trust, anti-monopoly laws), media laws covering advertising, laws covering reporter access (e.g. the UK Lobby system), or geographic areas/militarised zones of restricted access, and war reporting.

It is envisaged that work undertaken by researchers in their own institutions or individually, based on local/national collections, with an interdisciplinary approach, may then be considered in a broader, multinational context.

The online seminars will each last one hour and will consist of two papers of 15 minutes each, followed by discussion.

Recordings of past seminars are available below, organized by date, allowing you to explore topics of interest at your convenience. You may also watch them on YouTube.