UCL - Media and Culture Law

[ETAT2206]

[30h] 5 credits

This course is taught in the 1st semester.

Teacher(s): François Jongen

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes

Aims

At the end of the year, the student must be familiarized with a large amount of laws and notions, appeared with the developpement of the sectors of communication and culture in a society where freetime become more and more important. He must also perceive the interdisciplinarity of a branch born in public law (freedom of expression, licence systems, statute of public cultural institutions ) but touching also private law (copyright law, civil liability), economic law (advertisement rules, competition law), international law (European Union and European Convention of Human Rights) and penal law.
Due to the restricted number of students, the course is organised in a way to ensure a concrete and regular participation of the students.

Main themes

Constitutionnal grounds of Media Law (human rights, public freedoms, sharing of competences)

Statute of the medias press, radio and TV, Internet emphasizing the growing convergences

Rules governing the contents of the medias, including the questions of liability and the culturel obligations

Questions of culture law such as the statute of the public theatres, opera houses and orchestras of the rules governing the artistic furnitures and buildings