European Media Law

Abstract

The right of the media in terms of its content generally includes issues related to various legal fields such as public law, civil law and criminal law. General regulation of information and public and private communication is one of the primary goals of the law on media in general ensuring communication infrastructure, diversity of opinion, protection of media users, data protection and youth, protection of intellectual property etc. The European Media Law (or entertainment law) as a new area of law has its beginnings in the reports of two parliamentary groups of the European Parliament published in the 1980 television policy. While codification of European media law began with the issuance of Directive (89/552 ECC) ("Television without borders") of the European Economic Community. Normative regulation of European media law derived from primary and secondary sources of European law. One of the greatest challenges of European media law is that under the principle of subsidiarity to harmonize member states' normative regulation.