Given global concern over the increasing conflict between “informational privacy” and protection of online communication, this article examines the post– Google Spain impact on the right to be forgotten in the European Union and its worldwide impact.
The South Korean press is living through ‘a golden age’, largely because of the sweeping democratic reforms which started in mid-1987. But ‘all the news is not good’ so far as the adaption of the Korean press to a changing Korean society is concerned. In many ways, the international problems with the Korean press will turn out to be more intractable than the external ones. Press responsibility and ethics demand more sustained attention than ever from Korean journalists. The unethical ‘chonji’ (cash gifts) practices of many Korean journalists are beneath the dignity of the Korean press as a whole. Also, the ‘open market of ideas’ concept of press freedom in a democracy repudiates the modus operandi of the ‘kijadan’ (press club) system.
Local news media can safely republish defamatory stories furnished by reputable wire services on the basis of the “wire service” libel defense. The powerful, but often neglected, libel defense has been applied to at least twenty reported cases in thirteen jurisdictions. Its success rate has been almost 100 percent. From the First Amendment perspective, the wire service defense, which has its genesis in Layne v. Tribune Co. (1933), adds considerably to free debate as an additional weapon for the press to tackle meritless libel suits.
Three Korean women won $75,000 in damages in a libel action against the American-owned Newsweek, Inc. in Seoul for publication of a defamatory photo and a caption in the Pacific edition of Newsweek. A Singapore judge awarded former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and two others a §678,000 damage award against the International Herald Tribune, owned by the New York Times Co. and the Washington Post Co., for libel relating to an editorial-page column about the “dynastic politics” in the island nation.
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