News Media: Rights, Responsibilities and Regulation in the Digital Age
| Organisation: | Law Commission |
| Name: | News Media: Rights, Responsibilities and Regulation in the Digital Age |
| Subjects: | Media, Privacy |
| Deadline: | 12 March 2012 |
| Summary: | The Law Commission is seeking New Zealander’s views on the standards and accountabilities which should apply to the news media and citizen publishers in the digital age. The Commission’s latest Issues Paper, The news media meets ‘new media’: rights, responsibilities and regulation in the digital age, published today, contains a number of preliminary proposals for amendments to speech laws and changes to the regulatory systems for news media. The paper is divided into two parts: Part 1 deals with the first two legs of the Commission’s terms of reference which focus on the news media and how news media should be defined for legal purposes, and how they might be regulated in the era of convergence. Part 2 of the paper deals with the larger legal framework which governs all speech / communication , irrespective of the medium or who is communicating. |