Lexington Books
Pages: 330
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7391-8112-6 • Hardback • July 2013 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
978-1-4985-5717-7 • Paperback • September 2017 • $60.99 • (£47.00)
978-0-7391-8113-3 • eBook • July 2013 • $57.50 • (£44.00)
Lyombe Eko is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. He is also Co-Director of the African Studies Program.
Part I: Theoretical Approaches
Chapter 1: American Exceptionalism, the French Exception, and Digital Media Law
Chapter 2: Freedom of Expression in The United States and France: Political, Ideological & Cultural Contexts
Chapter 3: American Exceptionalism and Internet Law
Chapter 4: The French Exception (L'Exception Française) and Digital Media Law
Part II: Case Studies: Exceptionalism and Media Law in the United States and France
Chapter 5: New Media, Same Old Sex Scandals: Comparative Exceptionalism, Freedom of Expression and Invasion of Privacy in France and the United States
Chapter 6: Intellectual Property Law and the Transfer of Collective Journalistic Works from Real Space to Cyberspace: The Case of the United States and France
Chapter 7: New Media, Old Interest Groups: Civil Society and Digital Media Law in the United States and France
Chapter 8: Google Books, “Linguistic Capitalism” and the Exceptional Intellectual Property Law Regimes of the United States and France
Chapter 9: Intellectual Property, Freedom of Expression, and Regulation of Internet “Gripe Sites” in the United States and France
A highly sophisticated and important work that should not only move the field of communication law and policy into a new era, but do the same for the study of comparative law, legal globalization, Internet governance, law and society, and, indeed, international relations.
— Sandra Braman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
This book offers a superb investigation of French and American exceptionalism, a value in national philosophies and practices that has not received sufficient attention in communication scholarship. Eko’s work provides new ways of charting exceptionalism’s role in the development of legal regimes around intellectual property, freedom of speech and technological innovations, enriching our understanding of global media with its compelling depth and power.
— Sharon L. Strover, University of Texas, Austin