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Using Robert Post's seminal article 'The Social Foundations of Reputation and the Constitution' as a starting point, this book argues that the concept of reputation changes historically, reflecting social, political, economic, cultural and technological changes. It also suggests that the value of a good reputation is not immutable and analyses the history and doctrines of defamation law in the US and the UK. Concepts of defamation law are illustrated via case studies from recent Australian defamation law which give general insight into the nature of particular concepts of reputation. Leading on from the case studies and drawing on approaches to celebrity in media and cultural studies, the author conceptualises reputation as a media construct and demonstrates that reputation as celebrity is of great contemporary relevance at this point in the history of defamation law.

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Actions and defenses --- Freedom of expression --- Intangible property --- Libel and slander --- Personality (Law) --- Privacy, Right of --- Calumny --- Defamation --- Slander --- Torts --- Incorporeal property --- Intangible assets --- Intangibles --- Property --- Expression, Freedom of --- Free expression --- Liberty of expression --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation

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This text examines the law of defamation, and argues that it must be reformed in a number of ways in order to balance two important constitutional rights, the right to reputation and the right to freedom of expression.

Libel and slander. --- Freedom of speech. --- Freedom of the press. --- Hate speech. --- Libel and slander --- Freedom of speech --- Freedom of the press --- Hate speech --- Law - Non-U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Law, General & Comparative --- Law - Great Britain --- Defamation against groups --- Group defamation --- Group libel --- Racist speech --- Speech, Hate --- Censorship of the press --- Liberty of the press --- Press --- Press censorship --- Censorship --- Freedom of expression --- Government and the press --- Free speech --- Liberty of speech --- Speech, Freedom of --- Civil rights --- Assembly, Right of --- Freedom of information --- Intellectual freedom --- Calumny --- Defamation --- Slander --- Torts --- Law and legislation

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Blasphemy and other forms of blatant disrespect to religious beliefs have the capacity to create significant civil and even international unrest. Consequently, the sacrosanctity of religious dogmas and beliefs, stringent laws of repression and codes of moral and ethical propriety have compelled artists to live and create with occupational hazards like uncertain audience response, self-censorship and accusations of deliberate misinterpretation of cultural production looming over their heads. Yet, in recent years, issues surrounding the rights of minority cultures to recognition and respect have raised new questions about the contemporariness of the construct of blasphemy and sacrilege. Controversies over the aesthetic representation of the sacred, the exhibition of the sacred as art, and the public display of sacrilegious or blasphemous works have given rise to heated debates and have invited us to reflect on binaries like artistic and religious sensibilities, tolerance and philistinism, the sacred and the profane, deification and vilification. Endeavouring to move beyond ‘simplistic’ points about the rights to freedom of expression and sacrosanctity, this collection explores how differences between conceptions of the sacred can be negotiated. It recognises that blasphemy may be justified as a form of political criticism, as well as a sincere expression of spirituality. But it also recognises that within a pluralistic society, blasphemy in the arts can do an enormous amount of harm, as it may also impair relations within and between societies. This collection evolved out a two-day conference called ‘Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in the Arts’ held at the Centre for Cross Cultural Research at The Australian National University in November 2005. This is the second volume in a series of five conferences and edited collections on the theme ‘Negotiating the Sacred’. The first conference, ‘Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society’ was held at The Australian National University’s Centre for Cross-Cultural Research in 2004, and published as an edited collection by ANU E Press in 2006. Other conferences in the series have included Religion, Medicine and the Body (ANU, 2006), Tolerance, Education and the Curriculum (ANU, 2007), and Governing the Family (Monash University, 2008). Together, the series represents a major contribution to ongoing debates on the political demands arising from religious pluralism in multicultural societies.

Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Fine Arts - General --- Arts and religion. --- Offenses against religion. --- Blasphemy. --- Crimes against religion --- Offenses, Religious --- Religious crimes --- Religious offenses --- Arts --- Religion and the arts --- Religious aspects --- Freedom of speech --- Libel and slander --- Offenses against religion --- Crime --- Religion --- Sacrilege. --- Church desecration --- Desecration --- Host desecration accusation --- Taboo

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The non-interference perspective is common when theorizing about the protection of the private life of individuals and their families. However, this accepted way of looking at things, leads our thoughts astray. It fails to do justice to the interests both in being left in peace but at the same time participating in a community together with other people. New methods of communications interception, video and even satellite surveillance allow insight and an entry into personal matters, but they can also be used to satisfy people's need for protection, safety and security in public places. A theory about the respect for the individual's right to a private sphere and its protection ought therefore to incorporate both these interests. In The Private Sphere it is suggested that an emotional territory, which forms the individual's own sphere of action and experience, has developed in the course of evolution in pace with the individual's conditions of life, brought about by challenges in the natural and social environment. The starting point is the insight that the behaviour of human beings with respect to their privacy reflects in a fundamental way patterns of behaviour among social animals. The emotional territory allows a readiness to act along different lines and to maintain a multiplicity of different social relations.

Communication --- Privacy, Right of. --- Psychological aspects. --- Invasion of privacy --- Privacy, Right of --- Right of privacy --- Civil rights --- Libel and slander --- Personality (Law) --- Press law --- Computer crimes --- Confidential communications --- Data protection --- Right to be forgotten --- Secrecy --- Interpersonal relations --- Law and legislation --- Ethics. --- Philosophy of law. --- Biology-Philosophy. --- Philosophy of Law. --- Philosophy of Biology. --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Political science. --- Biology—Philosophy. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Law --- Biology --- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. --- Philosophy. --- Vitalism --- Jurisprudence