Redefining free speech for a digital age

1. Redefining Free Speech for a Digital Age Berglind Ósk Bergsdóttir [email_address] GoOpen – Norway 2011

3. Research and promote a comprehensive legislative framework for the protection of information rights.

5. Unanimous voting of all parties

6. At least 13 laws need to be changed and improved

7. Why is freedom of expression so important? “ ...the right to freedom of expression and information constitutes one of the essential foundations of a democratic society and one of the basic conditions for its progress and the development of every individual...” The Declaration on the Freedom of Expression and Information of 1982 by the Council of Europe

9. Icelandic laws states that journalists have a right to refuse to expose their sources except when a court ruling states otherwise

10. Council of Europe recommendation R (2000)7

11. Media proposal has been updated accordingly

15. Defined under what circumstances.

19. Content been removed from the web to avoid libel claims.

27. @immimedia

28. [email_address]