IPSO on trial

Authors

  • Julian Harris

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14296/ac.v2014i97.2265

Keywords:

Press law, Press regulation, freedom of information, privacy, Independent Press Standards Organisation, United Kingdom

Abstract

Julian Harris (Deputy General Editor, Amicus Curiae) considers what the newly empowered Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) might do to address issues raised by the mythical Tory PR “Sophie Wittams” created by a freelance reporter working for the Guido Fawkes blog who posted chatty tweets about herself to some seven MPs in what has been seen by some as an alleged entrapment.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Issue

Issue 97 (2014)

Section

The First Page

License

Those who contribute items to Amicus Curiae retain author copyright in their work but are asked to grant two licences. One is a licence to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, enabling us to reproduce the item in digital form, so that it can be made available for access online in the open journal system, repository, and website. The terms of the licence which you are asked to grant to the University for this purpose are as follows:

'I grant to the University of London the irrevocable, non-exclusive royalty-free right to reproduce, distribute, display, and perform this work in any format including electronic formats throughout the world for educational, research, and scientific non-profit uses during the full term of copyright including renewals and extensions'.

The other licence is for the benefit of those who wish to make use of items published online in Amicus Curiae and stored in the e-repository. For this purpose we use a Creative Commons licence (http://www.creativecommons.org.uk/); which allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they mention you and link back to your entry in Amicus Curiae and/or SAS-SPACE; but they can't change them in any way or use them commercially.