Journal of International Media & Entertainment Law | Southwestern Law School Southwestern Law School Los Angeles JIMEL Issues Current Issue Vol. 11, No. 1, 2025-2026 Contents Full Issue ( PDF Cover ( PDF First Pages ( PDF Masthead ( PDF Table of Contents ( PDF Editor's Note Michael M. Epstein ( PDF Articles How China Squelches Free Speech Beyond Its Borders: Legal Strategies of Transnational Censorship ( PDF GE CHEN 42 Persecution as a Crime Against Humanity in the Context of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict ( PDF GURGEN PETROSSIAN 100 Borrowed Plumes: Taking Artists’ Interests Seriously in Artificial Intelligence Regulation ( PDF GUIDO WESTKAMP 148 Media in Unrecognized Countries: Challenges and Lessons from Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in the Face of Isolation and Misinformation ( PDF ARMAN ASYRAN Recent Issues Vol. 10, No. 2, 2024-2025 Contents Full Issue ( PDF Cover ( PDF First Pages ( PDF Masthead ( PDF Table of Contents ( PDF Editor's Note Michael M. Epstein ( PDF Articles Fatullayev as a Model of Post-Soviet Media Control in the Shadow of Armed Conflicts ( PDF ANDRREI RICHTER 20 The Consequences of Inaction: An Inquiry into International Criminal Liability of Social Media Companies for Artsakh 2020 ( PDF RAJIKA L. SHAH 60 Weaponization of Social Media: The Cause of the Conflict Between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh ( PDF ROBERT AVETISYAN 93 Social Media, Propaganda, and the Ukrainian Conflict ( PDF RUSSEL L. WEAVER 116 Media Coverage and State Propaganda in Armed Conflicts: An International Law Perspective at the Armenian-Azerbaijan “Propaganda War” ( PDF INES GILLICH Vol. 10, No. 1, 2023-2024 Contents Full Issue ( PDF Cover ( PDF First Pages ( PDF Masthead ( PDF Table of Contents ( PDF Editor's Note Michael M. Epstein ( PDF Dedication: To Professor Michael D. Scott Michael M. Epstein ( PDF Articles Censorship as a Tool Against State Disinformation: The Freedom of Expression Implications of the Russian-Ukrainian War ( PDF ANDRAS KOLTAY 54 International Legal Responses to “Propaganda For War” in the Modern Warfare ( PDF ANDREI RICHTER 81 An Explanatory Comparative Study on Misinformation and Disinformation In Visegrad Countries and Beyond ( PDF ANDREJ ŠKOLKAY Vol. 9, No. 2, 2020-2021 Contents Full Issue ( PDF iii vii Cover ( PDF First Pages ( PDF Masthead ( PDF Table of Contents ( PDF Editor's Note Michael Epstein ( PDF Back Cover ( PDF Articles 171 Antitrust Confronts Big Data: U.S. and European Perspectives ( PDF WARREN GRIMES 189 The Audience Problem in Online Speech Crimes ( PDF JANNY H. C. LEUNG 235 Fixing FOIA: How Third-Party Intervention Thwarts Transparency ( PDF AMY KRISTIN SANDERS & WILLIAM D. KOSINSKI 273 Fake News and the COVID-19 Pandemic ( PDF RUSSELL L. WEAVER Vol. 9, No. 1, 2020-2021 Contents Full Issue ( PDF iii vii Cover ( PDF First Pages ( PDF Masthead ( PDF Table of Contents ( PDF Editor's Note Michael Epstein ( PDF Back Cover ( PDF Articles RICO as a Case-Study in Weaponizing Defamation and the International Response to Corporate Censorship ( PDF CHARLIE HOLT AND DANIEL SIMONS 33 The Defamation of Foreign State Leaders in Times of Globalized Media and Growing Nationalism ( PDF ALEXANDER HEINZE 69 Defamation Law in Russia in the Context of the Council of Europe (COE) Standards on Modern Freedom ( PDF ELENA SHERSTOBOEVA 109 Rethinking Non-Pecuniary Remedies For Defamation: The Case for Court-Ordered Apologies ( PDF WANNES VANDENBUSSCHE Vol. 8, No. 2, 2019-2020 Contents Full Issue ( PDF iii vii Cover ( PDF First Pages ( PDF Masthead ( PDF Table of Contents ( PDF Editor's Note Michael Epstein ( PDF Back Cover ( PDF Articles 129 Credibility-Enhancing Regulatory Models to Counter Fake News: Risks of a Non-Harmonized Intermediary Liability Paradigm Shift ( PDF TERESA RODRÍGUEZ DE LAS HERAS BALLELL 165 Criminal Defamation: Still “An Instrument of Destruction” In the Age of Fake News ( PDF JANE E. KIRTLEY & CASEY CARMODY 205 Stemming the Tide of Fake News: A Global Case Study of Decisions to Regulate ( PDF AMY KRISTIN SANDERS, RACHEL L. JONES, AND XIRAN LIU 233 Legal Responsibility for Fake News ( PDF TOMMASO TANI Vol. 8, No. 1, 2018-2019 Contents Full Issue ( PDF iii vii Cover ( PDF First Pages ( PDF Masthead ( PDF Table of Contents ( PDF Editor's Note Michael Epstein ( PDF Back Cover ( PDF Articles Fake News and Freedom of the Media ( PDF ANDREI RICHTER 35 A Federal Shield Law That Works: Protecting Sources, Fighting Fake News, and Confronting Modern Challenges to Effective Journalism ( PDF ANTHONY L. FARGO 71 Combating Russian Disinformation in Ukraine: Case Studies in a Market for Loyalties ( PDF MONROE E. PRICE & ADAM P. BARRY 99 Defamation as a "Weapon" in Europe and in Serbia: Legal and Self-Regulatory Frameworks ( PDF JELENA SURCULIJA MILOJEVIC Vol. 7, No. 2, 2017-2018 Contents Full Issue ( PDF iii vii Cover ( PDF First Pages ( PDF Masthead ( PDF Table of Contents ( PDF Editor's Note Michael Epstein ( PDF Back Cover ( PDF Essays 129 Challenges to Freedom of Information in the Digital Age ( PDF DAVID KAYE 137 The Swedish Freedom of Print Act of 1776 - Background and Significance ( PDF JONAS NORDIN Articles 147 Migration of Civilian and National Security Access to Information Norms ( PDF ÁDÁM FÖLDES 179 Access to Government Information in South Korea: The Rise of Transparency as an Open Society Principle ( PDF KYU HO YOUM, INHO LEE & DR. AHRAN PARK 203 Circumventing Transparency: Extra-Legal Exemptions from Freedom of Information and Judicial Review in China ( PDF DR. CLEMENT YONGXI CHEN Vol. 7, No. 1, 2016-2017 Contents Full Issue ( PDF iii vii Cover ( PDF First Pages ( PDF Masthead ( PDF Table of Contents ( PDF Editor's Note Michael Epstein ( PDF Back Cover ( PDF Articles From Sweden to the Global Stage: FOI as European Human Right ( PDF DAVID GOLDBERG 31 Why the French FOIA "Failed" ( PDF TOM MCLLEAN 65 Sunlight Where It's Needed: The Case for Freedom of Media Information ( PDF ROY PELED 101 Legislating Usability: Freedom of Information Laws That Help Users Identify What They Want ( PDF MARK WEILER Vol. 6, No. 2, 2016-2017 Contents iii vii First Pages ( PDF Masthead ( PDF Table of Contents ( PDF Editor's Note Michael Epstein ( PDF Articles 101 The Lawyer's Role in Promoting the Use of Fair Use ( PDF JOHN M. GARON 123 Censoring the Silk Screen: China's Precarious Balance Between State Regulation and a Global Film Market ( PDF JEREMY GELTZER 169 Intellectual Property From Outside the Box: The Curious Case of Internet From Space ( PDF AMIR H. KHOURY 187 The Internet Service Provider Secondary Liability: A Comparative Analysis of Brazilian and United States Legislation and Case Law (PDF) RAPHAELA MACIEL LADEIA Vol. 6, No. 1, 2015-2016 Contents iii vii First Pages ( PDF Masthead ( PDF Table of Contents ( PDF Editor's Note Michael Epstein ( PDF Articles Konate V. Burkina Faso: An Analysis of a Landmark Ruling on Criminal Defamation in Africa ( PDF MATT J. DUFFY 21 Is There Anybody Out There? Analyzing the Regulation of Children's Privacy Online in the United States of America and the European Union According to the TBGI Analytical Framework by Eberlein et al. ( PDF NACHSHON GOLTZ 43 U.S., Eh? Contrasting the Feasibility of a La Carte Television in Canada and the United States ( PDF DANIEL J. SPITZ 73 Big Tobacco Blows Smoke on Public Health Initiatives: Using Trademark Law to Prevent International Changes to Cigarette Packaging ( PDF CAILE MORRIS Vol. 5, No. 2, 2014-2015 Contents vii Editor's Note Michael Epstein ( PDF Articles The Distribution of Pay Television in the United States: Let an Unshackled Marketplace Decide ( PDF WARREN S. GRIMES 49 Freedom of Expression-Based Restrictions on the Prosecution of Journalists Under State Secrets Laws: A Comparative Analysis ( PDF KATHARINE LARSEN AND JULIA C. ATCHERLEY 111 Exhaustion and Software Resale Rights in Light of Recent EU Case Law ( PDF LAZAROS G. GRIGORIADIS, PH.D. 129 A Fistful of Dynamite : How Independent Film's Cowboy Culture Creates Unstable Sales Agency Agreements ( PDF GRACE CLEMENTS Current Members Supervising Editor Michael Epstein, Southwestern Law School Board of Editors Peter Bartlett Minter Ellison Lawyers Eric S. Brown, Franklin Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo, P.C. Chunghwan Choi Lee & Ko J. Alexandra Darraby Attorney at Law Silvia Faerman Southwestern Law School Jeff Gewirtz NETS Basketball/Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment Kevin Goering Norwick, Schad & Goering David Goldberg University of Glasgow Robert Lutz Southwestern Law School Michael Scott Southwestern Law School Nathan Siegel Levine, Sullivan, Koch & Schultz Mark Stephens HowardKennedyFsi John Tehranian Southwestern Law School Cydney A. Tune Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Kurt Wimmer Covington & Burling, LLP Kyu Ho Youm University of Oregon Student Editors Supervising Student Editor Emily Rehm Harmony Anderson Lacey Chrabaszcz Chiara Genovese Josh Glocer S. Elliot Hakakzadeh Shelby Luchesi-Gallaher Jessica Lusk Inez Morales Jaclyn Ponish Ashley Ramos Nadia Sokolova Jason Souza Christina Steele Aldwin Tanala Charlie Wang Alexa Whiteside Nikta Yazdi Body The Journal of International Media & Entertainment Law is a semi-annual publication of the Donald E. Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute of Southwestern Law School in association with the American Bar Association Forums on Communications Law and the Entertainment and Sports Industries. The Journal provides a forum for exploring the complex and unsettled legal principles that apply to the production and distribution of media and entertainment in an international, comparative, and local context. The legal issues surrounding the creation and dissemination of news and entertainment products on a worldwide basis necessarily implicate the laws, customs, and practices of multiple jurisdictions. The Journal examines the impact of the Internet and other technologies, the often-conflicting laws affecting media and entertainment issues, and the legal ramifications of widely divergent cultural views of privacy, defamation, intellectual property, and government regulation. 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This symposium will examine the role of media institutions, government censorship, and social media speech norms in areas beset by post-Soviet-era disputes over land and ethnicity, examining the role institutions play before, during, and after the conflicts. Click here to view event details and the full list of speakers. Contact Information Michael M. Epstein Professor of Law, Tenured | Director of Entertainment, Media, and Sports Law Concentration | Supervising Editor of the Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law Tel: 213-738-6774 Email: mepstein@swlaw.edu Biederman Entertainment, Media, and Sports Law Institute Tel: 213-738-6602 Email: institute@swlaw.edu First Amendment Leadership Award The First Amendment Leadership Award recognizes individuals and organizations who have distinguished themselves in defense of the values enshrined in the First Amendment. Recipients of the First Amendment Leadership Award represent the best in law, journalism and the arts; exemplars who have risen to lead the cause for free speech and a free press, without fear or favor. Inaugurated in 2017, the First Amendment Leadership Award is administered by the Journal of International Media & Entertainment Law, a publication of the Donald E. Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute at Southwestern Law School that is edited by faculty in cooperation with the American Bar Association’s Forum on Communications Law and the ABA’s Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries. Recipients are honored at an awards gala held at the historic Bullocks Wilshire Building in Los Angeles and are expected to deliver a public address that will be published in the Journal of International Media & Entertainment Law. Apply Now Donate