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Mapping the system: EU law, Council of Europe, national law and codes

Media work in Europe is governed by several overlapping systems, not one. Learn to tell EU law, the Council of Europe, national law, regulators and codes apart.

Two European systems, not one

There is no single European media law. There is a layered system of rules from different sources, and a practitioner who treats it as one body of law will sooner or later get something wrong. Take one project. A documentary maker in Vienna films a street protest, interviews a named official and publishes online, with versions for broadcasters in two…

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