The Cambridge Handbook of Media Law and Policy in Europe

Martin Senftleben's activities focus on generative AI systems and author remuneration; platform and digital ecosystem regulation; quality journalism and the economic viability of public interest media. He is a member of the European Copyright Society (ECS) and the Executive Committee of the Association littéraire et artistique internationale (ALAI). Kristina Irion is Associate Professor at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. Dr. Irion's research spans EU law in relation to data, digital technologies and media. She wrote about the independence of media regulatory authorities and the interplay between national and EU media law. Tarlach McGonagle is Associate Professor at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam and Professor of Media Law and Information Society at Leiden Law School. He specialises in European and international human rights law, in particular the right to freedom of expression, and in European and international media law and policy. Joost Poort is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Institute for Information Law. He works as an economist on various economic and multidisciplinary research projects in the field of copyright, telecommunications and media.

• Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Preface Martin Senftleben, Kristina Irion, Tarlach McGonagle and Joost Poort; Rethinking European Media Law and Policy Melinda Rucz, Kristina Irion and Martin Senftleben; Part I. Fundamental Rights Foundations of European Media Law and Policy: 1. Fundamental rights aspects of EU media regulation Tarlach McGonagle; 2. European media policy grounded in fundamental rights: linking the council of Europe and European Union Urška Umek and Max van Drunen; 3. Designing digital constitutionalism: copyright exceptions and limitations as a regulatory framework for media freedom and the right to information online Christophe Geiger and Bernd Justin Jütte; 4. Legitimacy of sanctions against media as a counteraction to Alien propaganda Andrei Richter and Anna Smulders; Part II. Rethinking European Media Governance: 5. Big promises, small deeds: the bumpy ride from media ownership transparency to ownership restrictions Josef Trappel; 6. Influencers challenging the AVMSD's scope: in need for patching up or fundamental rethinking? Nadia Feci and Peggy Valcke; 7. New European media law: enforcement, compliance and democratic legitimacy Tanja Kerševan; 8. Lost in capture: how and why the EU Lost the battle for media freedom in Europe Marius Dragomir and Zsuzsa Detrekői; 9. Media policy transfer in Europe: Mission failing Krisztina Rozgonyi; Part III. Countering the Information Disorder: 10. Evolution of the understanding of harm and its revention in EU media Law Sally Broughton Micova; 11. The EU's fight against online disinformation: can safeguarding fundamental rights arm fundamental rights? Elda Brogi and Iva Nenadić; 12. A missed opportunity? Information resilience and public service media policy in EU Minna Aslama Horowitz and Marius Dragomir; 13. Regulating the extreme public Sphere Eugenia Siapera; 14. Governance of information disorders 2.0: advancing co-regulatory frameworks Stephan Dreyer; Part IV. Coping with Digital Transformations: 15. Big tech's differentiated lobbying: analysing the political activity of alphabet, meta and Microsoft in EU media policy Melinda Rucz and Kristina Irion; 16. Bargaining in the shadow of the press publishers' right Ula Furgał and Martin Kretschmer; 17. Is harmonization good if the end result is even more fragmentation? The case of Article 15 CDSM directive and the exclusion of 'very short extracts' Eleonora Rosati; Part V. New Directions for Preserving Journalism: 18. No news is bad news: the role of government in news markets in the age of aggregators and AI Joost Poort; 19. Regulating opinion power: journalism, platforms and public speech Andrew T. Kenyon; 20. Can (IP) aw help preserve quality journalism? Daniel Gervais; 21. Remuneration for AI training – A new source of income for journalists? Martin Senftleben.