Category Archives: Defamation and Privacy
Thomas Margoni, ‘Music Metadata Governance: A Legal Perspective’
ABSTRACT The governance of music (meta)data, meaning the rules and institutions governing (meta)data access and transferability within the music sector, constitutes a significant yet under-explored facet of the music data lifecycle. This chapter delves into the legal framework applicable to music (meta)data, with a particular emphasis on European data law. The analysis reveals that three […]
RonNell Andersen Jones, ‘Democracy preservation and the limits of libel law’
ABSTRACT This Eric Barendt Annual Media Law Lecture considers what American libel law can and cannot do to help preserve liberal democracy. It explores the wave of recent US cases that have attempted to use libel law to protect democracy-preserving truth and examines the ways that it has been an effective instrument in advancing this […]
‘Top 10 Defamation Cases of 2025: a selection’
Inforrm reported on a large number of defamation cases from around the world in 2025. Following a now established tradition, with our widely read posts on 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 defamation cases, we present our own eccentric selection of legally and factually interesting cases from England, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, […]
‘Tort Liability for Deepfakes: A Comparative Perspective’ (Journal of Tort Law)
Unreal and Unjust: An Enrichment-Based Approach to the Deepfake Dilemma (Ayelet Gordon-Tapiero) € Deepfake Torts: Emerging Tort Frameworks in US Deepfake Regulation (Thomas E Kadri and Sonja R West) Pornographic Deep Fakes: Liability for Breach of Privacy in Cases of Parody? (Tsachi Keren-Paz) Reimagining US Tort Law for Deepfake Harms: Comparative Insights from China and […]
Elena Izyumenko, ‘Music Metadata as a Fundamental-Rights Question, or EU’s Positive Obligations to Secure Cultural Visibility and Equality Online’
ABSTRACT Music metadata – credits, identifiers, language labels, territorial tags, and genre descriptors – functions as the operative infrastructure of streaming. It shapes what becomes searchable, recommendable, charted, and remunerated. This chapter argues that metadata is therefore not a neutral technical resource but a constitutional site where structural inequality is produced or mitigated. When metadata […]
Fernandez, Gómez-Canaval and Blasco Alís, ‘How much does your car know about you? A Study on the Security and Data Privacy of Connected Car Apps’
ABSTRACT The use of mobile apps (iOS/Android) has become commonplace in standard and high-end vehicle series across various brands. This connectivity is now essential for delivering a new suite of connected services to vehicle owners such as remote control and monitoring. However, as with any advanced technology, the use of mobile apps in vehicles can […]
Houba and Motchenkova, ‘Personalized pricing and consumer privacy’
ABSTRACT Advances in data collection enable firms to use consumer information for personalized pricing. In Clavorà Braulin’s (2023) symmetric two-dimensional model, this reduces prices and profits, while partial privacy yields the highest profits. Extending the model to asymmetric firms and vertically differentiated products, we show that these results are not robust under sizable asymmetries. Partial […]
Miranda Mourby, ‘Private by default: reasonable expectations in secondary uses of patient data’
ABSTRACT The ‘reasonable expectations of privacy’ test has become central to English information law. The fact-specificity of this test has obfuscated the scope of patients’ privacy rights. In both R (W, X, Y and Z) v Secretary of State for Health and Prismall v Google, the claimants were found to lack a circumstantially reasonable expectation […]
John Campbell, ‘Misuse of private information and the protection of reputation after ZXC v Bloomberg – Is privacy of information still a requirement?’
ABSTRACT While it is well established that Article 8 protects reputation, a defamation action remains the appropriate remedy unless the claimant has, in addition, a reasonable expectation of privacy. The Supreme Court in ZXC v Bloomberg found that information could be characterised as private if it harms reputation providing that such harm is sufficiently serious […]
Bellovin and Kochar, ‘Quantifying Creepiness: Using Predictive Privacy to Measure Privacy Harms’
ABSTRACT Privacy has been a concern for hundreds or thousands of years. Despite that history, advocates have struggled to explain to others why privacy is important. Even today, the best that many scholars can offer is that privacy violations are ‘creepy’. In some special cases, there might be concerns about identity theft or physical security […]