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Type D and Type F activities
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Laurea magistrale in Editoria e giornalismo - Enrollment from 2025/2026Editorial information and communications law (m) (2024/2025)
Teaching code
4S008067
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
IUS/09 - PUBLIC LAW
Period
CuCi 2 A, CuCi 2 B
Courses Single
Authorized
Learning objectives
The course aims to introduce students to the fundamental legal notions in the field of information and communication in order to let them fully understand the problems connected with professional publishing. The course focuses on the analysis of the right to free expression of thought and its relationship with other constitutional rights. At the end of the course the students will acquire the knowledge that will allow them evaluate in advance their abilities and limits ifor working in the publishing. They will acquire the tools to keep up to date in this field.
Prerequisites and basic notions
Legal Institutional Knowledge
Program
The themes of this university teaching will be the following:
- freedom of information in Italian Constitution;
- principal problems about the association of journalists;
- the protection of the right to freedom of expression with regard to the Internet and information technology.
- defamation and the journalists liability system;
- general issues and main legal aspects of copyright;
- independent administrative authorities in the field of information and communication.
Bibliography
Didactic methods
Lessons face to face
Learning assessment procedures
Written exam with three open questions on the main topics of the course and valutating the theoretical and tecnical knowledge reached by the student. .
Students that will attend the lectures must study:
lectures notes.
Students that will not attend the lectures must study: R. Razzante, Manuale di diritto dell'informazione e della comunicazione, Cedam, Wolters Kluwer, 2022, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, ,5, 6, 7.
ERASMUS students are kindly requested to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course to arrange teaching methodology and examination.
Evaluation criteria
Goals of the examination.
- the knowledge of the exam program topics
- the depth and breadth of the acquired knowledge;
- the property of language;
- the ability to connect systematically knowledge;
- analytical and argumentative ability
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
The final evaluation is expressed in thirtieth.
Exam language
ITALIANO
