Media and communication
Today, it is no longer just traditional media – the press, broadcasters, and publishers – that produce and disseminate content publicly. In today's digitized information society, "everyone is online." Private individuals, businesses, and organizations in both the private and public sectors manage and communicate information in the form of text, film, and images.
This brings freedom of expression to the fore, but also all the limitations on freedom of expression. Freedom of expression can be restricted by rules on privacy, copyright, and marketing rights, among other things.
The rules governing what information and content can be legally processed and communicated are complex and, in some cases, unclear. They are not contained in a single law, and in this field Norwegian law is also governed by EU/EEA law, human rights conventions and other international law, with associated case law from both Norwegian and international courts, such as the European Court of Justice, the EFTA Court and the European Court of Human Rights.
These rules come into play when private individuals, commercial actors, or public agencies post and share text, images, videos, and other content on social media, and when traditional media publish and broadcast their content. Here, rules concerning privacy, the right to one's own image, defamation, copyright, and marketing rights, among other things, will impose restrictions on what can be legally published/communicated. And regardless of what one chooses to publish/communicate, all electronic processing of information about individuals will, in principle, be subject to the Personal Data Act and the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which impose a number of requirements on the basis for processing.
Glittertind has lawyers with considerable experience in this field, including having conducted a number of landmark cases before the Supreme Court.
