Research handbook on EU media law and policy

This cutting-edge Research Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the European Union's influence on the regulation of the media sector in the digital age. It explores and compares several areas of European legislation that have an impact on the media sector, defined in a broad sense for its capacity to influence the public opinion at large. Utilising law and policy perspectives, chapters explain EU media policy by successive approximations, moving from the general to the specific. It first examines certain fundamental pillars of EU legal assets that undoubtedly help to characterize the action of the European Union in the industry, then moves to analyse other fields of legislation, where a series of 'sectoral' rules also affect and shape the media. These fields include competition rules, rules on electronic communications, rules on e-Commerce, and data protection regulation, up to the recently revised Audiovisual Media Services Directive. In the final section of the Research Handbook, several authors discuss how the digital disruption is shaping the future of European media policy. The Research Handbook also has a particular focus on the methodology of the Media Pluralism Monitor; a major tool used to specifically assess the risks for media pluralism and freedom in Europe. Innovative and timely, this Research Handbook will be a crucial companion for academics and students in the fields of law, policy and media, who wish to further their understanding of the logic of future developments in the EU digital media sector.Introduction to research handbook on EU media law and policy : Understanding the eu approach to media law and policy. The scope of the handbook and a presentation of the contributions / Pier Luigi Parcu and Elda Brogi -- Part I: Introduction 1. EU and media policy: Conceptualising media pluralism in the era of online platforms. The experience of the media pluralism monitor / Elda Brogi, Roberta Carlini, Iva Nenadić, Pier Luigi Parcu, and Mario Viola de Azevedo Cunha -- 2. The audiovisual media services directive and the promotion of European works: Cultural mainstreaming revisited / Evangelia Psychogiopoulou -- 3. Old and new media: The interactions of merger control and plurality regulation / Anna Pisarkiewicz and Michele Polo -- 4. Public service media and European Union law: A new human rights framework? / Rachael Craufurd Smith -- 5. The impact of judicial interactions among European and national courts and regulators on EU media law / Federica Casarosa -- Part II: The media sector and the digital single market -- 6. The EU regulation of electronic communications networks and services / Alexandre de Streel and Christian Hocepied -- 7. The secondary liability of online intermediaries / Giovanni Sartor -- 8. Freedom of expression and the rule of law: The debate in the context of online platform regulation / Marta Maroni and Elda Brogi -- 9. Regulating geo-blocking discriminatory practices in the digital single market / Giovanni De Gregorio -- 10. The intersection of EU media policy and copyright: Protecting the value of cultural creation in television and online content services / Giuseppe Mazziotti -- 11. Data protection, freedom of expression, competition and media pluralism: Challenges in balancing and safeguarding rights in the age of big data / Mario Viola de Azevedo Cunha and Shara Monteleone -- 12. Digital taxation and media policy / Roberta Carlini -- Part III: The audiovisual media services directive (avmsd) -- 13. The audiovisual media services directive / Sally Broughton Micova -- 14. The evolving scope of application of the avms directive / Peggy Valcke and Ingrid Lambrecht -- 15. Video-sharing platforms in avmsd: A new kind of content regulation / Ľubos Kuklis -- 16. The promotion of European works by audiovisual media service providers / Ernesto Apa and Giovanni Gangemi -- 17. The determinants of independence of audiovisual media regulators: The scope of article 30 / Adriana Mutu -- Part IV: EU media policy in evolution -- 18. Indices ranking freedom of expression: A comparison between the media pluralism monitor, reporters without borders and freedom house / Elda Brogi, Iva Nenadić and Pier Luigi Parcu -- 19. Community and minority media: "the third sector" in European policies and media pluralism monitor / Beata Klimkiewicz -- 20. EU enlargement policy and the media: A political or a technical issue? / Brankica Petković and Sandra Basić-Hrvatin -- 21. Disinformation and misinformation: The EU response / Maria Luisa Stasi and Pier Luigi Parcu -- 22. Policy changes to strengthen the protection of media freedom and media pluralism in the eu / Pier Luigi Parcu and Maria Alessandra Rossi -- Index