The Inforrm blog is now five months old. We have had over 200 posts from nearly two dozen contributors. In June we had over 26,000 page views – from 4 continents. After the United Kingdom our biggest readership is in the United States, New Zealand and Europe – with occasional readers in across the rest of the world.
Inforrm is now moving to the next phase of its development. A number of individuals from the law, academia, politics and journalism have expressed an interest in becoming participants. These include participants in Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States.
An organising committee is being established and we will be publishing a list of our supporters shortly. Anyone who is interested in becoming a supporter can contact us via our email: inforrmeditorial@googlemail.com.
We will shortly be announcing our launch event – we hope that the speakers will include three distinguished law professors Eric Barendt, Alastair Mullis and Gavin Phillipson as well as lawyers and journalists. We will also be announcing a programme of talks and seminars around key issues in the area of media law and policy, with a particular focus on issues of the “balancing of rights”.
We invite suggestions for seminars and events and contributions to the Inforrm Blog. Our purpose is to provide a forum for debate, to be inclusive rather than exclusive. The law governing the media in general and privacy and expression in particular is too important to be left to any particular interest group or groups. If you want to contribute, please let us know.
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The Gazette of Law & Journalism in Australia carries reports of two media law conferences with many speakers from around the world. Lynetter Houssaini has provided a summary of the 2010 CMCL conference in Melbourne which covered historical and modern legal issues. The other conference, arranged jointly by Drake University (US) and UTS (Sydney), was the Intellectual Property, Media and Communications Law Round Table (29 – 30 November) and dealt with “balance” issues in intellectual property and media law. An abridged version of the defamation paper is republished by the Gazette, which may be of interest because (1) it discusses, in detail, a number of Inforrm blogs and the 4 November conference and (2) it has some novel law reform proposals.
International Forum for Responsible Media : what does it comprise?