Defamation
Copyright
Privacy
Qatar Law
Potpurri
100
It is the term for spoken defamation.
What is slander?
100
It is the international law signed by more than 180 countries that harmonizes copyright law around the world.
What is the Berne Convention?
100
These are the four amendments to the US Constitution on which the American right to privacy is based.
What are the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 9th?
100
In late 2016, Qatar enacted this type of law that is likely to impact media professionals.
What is data privacy?
100
It is the term for a statement by a media organization saying that it no longer stands by the content it published. This may be used in a defamation case to minimize damages.
What is a retraction?
200
They are the three common law elements of defamation.
What are identification, publication, and injury/harm?
200
These two types of rights are protected by international copyright law.
What are moral and economic rights?
200
These are the two main types of privacy.
What are relational privacy and informational privacy?
200
It is the law that says Islamic Sharia provisions apply in defamation cases if either the victim or the defendant is Muslim.
What is Qatar's Penal Code (AKA Law No. 11 of 2004)?
200
They are the four American privacy torts.
What are false light, intrusion, private facts and appropriation?
300
This law says that U.S. courts will not enforce defamation judgements from other countries unless they comply with American First Amendment standards.
What is the SPEECH Act?
300
Rashid wrote a well-known poem. The poem was turned into an art poster by a famous graphic artist. What is the term for such a poster?
What is a derivative work?
300
It is the case that established a right to be forgotten in Europe.
What is the Google Spain case?
300
It is designed to protect creative works created in Qatar by both nationals and non-nationals.
What is What is Qatar's Copyright Law (AKA Law No. 7 of 2002 on the Protection of Copyright and Neighboring Rights)?
300
It is the case in which the US Supreme Court said the government could not issue a prior restraint against two newspapers who sought to publish the Pentagon Papers.
What is New York Times v. U.S.?
400
These laws allow defendants who are sued for defamation to have the lawsuits thrown out of court if they are frivolous in nature and only aimed to keep the defendant from speaking out on an issue.
What are Anti-SLAPP laws?
400
If Hakeem wrote a book in 2015 and died in 2020, it is the year his copyright would expire in Qatar.
What is 2070?
400
It is the best defense to publication of private facts.
What is newsworthiness?
400
This law establishes that newspapers in Qatar must be licensed by the government.
What is Qatar's Press Law (AKA Law No. 8 of 1979 on Prints and Publications)?
400
It is the case that did away with the EU's Safe Harbor provision that allowed transborder data flows under the 1995 Data Protection Directive.
What is the Schrems case?
500
They are the six rights in a copyright holder's bundle of rights.
What are the right to reproduction, the right to derivative works, the right to distribute, the right to public display, the right to public performance and the right to digital distribution/performance?
500
It is the name for the new program that allows businesses to engage in trans-Atlantic data flows without violating EU data privacy laws.
What is Privacy Shield?
500
It was passed in 2014 to increase penalties related to speech and other acts that occurred online, including defamation and invasion of privacy.
What is Qatar's Cybercrime Prevention Law (AKA Law No. 14 of 2014)?
500
They are the three types of copyright liability.
What is direct, vicarious and contributory infringement?
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