Media Law and Ethics in Singapore
by Dr. Ang Peng Hwa
School of Communication Studies,
Nanyang Technological University
School of Communication Studies,
Nanyang Technological University
Contents Of This Site
What I Teach
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What I Teach
What I Am Working On
Internet Content Rating Association
What I Have Worked On
Why Asia Is Losing The Cyberspace Race
. Article in
Asian Wall Street Journal op-ed page Wednesday April 14, 1999. This 250k file
was scanned and sent to me by a reader who then emailed me. BTW, this copy is
copyrighted and if AWSJ
asks me to remove it, I will have to.
Censorship and the Internet: a Singapore Perspective
with Berlinda Nadarajan. Paper presented at the Internet Society Annual
Conference. Honolulu. June 1995.
A Japanese version is at IAJ (Internet Association of Japan) News October 1995.
Vol. 2 No. 3. pp. 14-22.
A revised print version is at CACM. 1996. Censorship and the Internet: a
Singapore Perspective. CACM. June. Vol. 39, No. 6. 72-78.
Internet Development in Asia
with Loh Chee Meng. Paper presented at the Internet Society Annual Conference.
Montreal, Canada. June 1996.
How Countries Are Regulating Internet Content
Paper presented at the Internet Society Annual Conference. Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. June 1997.
Issues in the Regulation of Internet Quality of Service
with Berlinda Nadarajan. Paper presented at the Internet Society
Annual Conference. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. June 1997.
Resources
Copyright
Guidelines for Newsletter Editors in Singapore--a term paper written for
newsletter editors by a student who discovered that newsletter editors were
violating copyright rules
inadvertently.
Copyright
Resources by the Poynter Institute. Very high quality.
Singapore's Internet Code of Practice: Anil S, Re-Visiting the Singapore Internet Code of Practice, Refereed article, 2001
(2) The Journal of Information, Law and Technology
(JILT).
QuickLinks
--the XIII file--resources to "news items about legal
and regulatory aspects of Internet and the information society, and market and
technology" edited by Richard Swetenham who claims to be a "modest man with much
to be modest about" but is in reality working with the European Union's
DGXIII, which looks into information society issues.
Internet Resources on Media Law (including Cyberspace)
by University of Iowa Library
David Loundy E-Law site
by David Loundy, The John Marshall Law School. The site has links to resources
including an e-law
summary.
Governance and Regulation of Cyberspace
also by Loundy. "This course explores methods of regulating 'Cyberspace.'
The focus is not so much on what the law is, but rather how the law is made,
and who makes the laws that govern on-line actions." Also says it discusses
"various systems of regulation and several case studies."
Institute of Information Telecommunication and Media law
(ITM) in Muenster (northwestern) Germany was founded in June, 1997. "The
primary goal is to research the legal framework of the modern information
society with an emphasis on Comparative law in order to learn from the
experiences of other countries." Good informative site with a good free
newsletter.
BitLaw
, which
claims to be "a comprehensive Internet resource on technology law, containing
over 1,800 pages on patent, copyright, trademark, and Internet legal issues."
Index of Australian media law sites
This
first-generation page rates Australian media law sites according to its criteria
of relevance and utility.
Communications Law Centre Australia's first online legal practice specialising in Internet and
e-commerce law.
Resources on European media law
"We have collected all resources on European laws and regulation about
mass media. Sure useful to let me know your impressions about our site,"
Prof. Giuseppe Corasaniti. Faculty of Law, University of Rome, Italy.
Media Ethics Links
of the
Department of Department
of Social Communication & Journalism, University of Technology, Sydney. A simple listing
that attempts to be wide-ranging but site is slow. Be prepared to wait.
WWW Virtual Library: Communications and Telecommunications.
A huge resource including links to electronic media, multimedia, legal issues,
mobile communication, policy information, videoconferencing and more. A good
starting point.
WWW Virtual Library: Journalism.
A very-well organised and large site by John Makulowich, a technology
journalist. Another good starting point.
Copyright Resource Centre of the US Music Publishers' Association.
A collection of links with mostly good quality.
Online Journalism Resource
by the USC Annenberg
School. The site aims to be a comprehensive resource for online journalism.
Pepperdine University Journalism Sources
. Fair quality.
Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute.
Law Links from American Journalism Review.
UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy
. Resource about cyberspace law from an American perspective.
Links to sites with information about Singapore's media/Internet rules
.
Master list of Journalism Code of Ethics
State-by-state directory of online newspapers
. A
repository of classified ads, weekly examples of innovative online content or
marketing created by online newspapers, readership statistics and a recap of
the "Edgie" Awards, which recognize the best in newspapers online.This site
ties back into one of the best association sites--The Newspaper Association of
America.
Social Science Research Network
by Peter Swire of Ohio State. Swire was
appointed March 8, 1999, as US President Bill Clinton's advisor on Internet
privacy advisor. He has visited Singapore. Unfortunately, I missed his call and
he could not return mine in time so I missed rubbing shoulders with someone who
now rubs Clinton's shoulders. Figuratively, of course.
Annotated list of search engines and specialty databases
from the NTU library. 3 thumbs up. (It's that good.)
Extensive list of links to newspapers in Asia maintained by NTU library. 3 thumbs up.
Singapore National Library website
with links to other journals.