Athelstane Aamodt examines recent interesting developments for the world of media law
- What are the implications of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation & will it apply to the UK post-Brexit?
- Analysing the Supreme Court judgment in PJS v News Group Newspapers.
It’s been a very interesting six months or so in the world of media law.
Perhaps the two most prominent developments have been in the sphere of privacy, first in the publication of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation, and second in the much publicised Supreme Court case of PJS v News Group Newspapers [2016] UKSC 26, [2016] All ER (D) 135 (May), involving a celebrity and attempts by News Group Newspapers (the publishers of The Sun) to set aside an injunction forbidding the reporting of a story concerning that celebrity’s sex life.
EU General Data Protection Regulation
The EU has at last approved the General Data Protection Regulation (specifically (EU) 2016/679) (the GDPR). In order to fully understand the GDPR, it is worth looking at what it is replacing, namely the Data Protection Directive (Directive 95/46/EC)
