Fundamentals of media regulation

Today in Russian universities there is no independent academic discipline called the "Fundamentals of Mediagulation". As a rule, individual issues set forth in this book are studied as part of other academic courses ("legal foundations of journalism", "information law", etc) Nevertheless, in the curricula of leading Western universities (in the USA, Continental European, Israel, etc), such educational disciplines as Media Law, Medienrecht, etc. This publication is designed to make up for the existing gap in the legal educational literature, to submit a systemic analysis of the legal regulation of the activities of the media.
In the manual, the idea of ​​highlighting the "complex" industry "of the right of the mass media, which claims independence in the system of Russian legislation, is criticized. Despite the fact that media-regulation is the activity of public power to streamline the national media space, in modern conditions the only possible and acceptable method of regulation is a private method based on the inadmissibility of the arbitrary intervention of someone in private affairs and the need for unhindered exercise of civil rights (Article 1 of civilian Code of the Russian Federation) Thus, it is precisely the private law that forms the basis of the legislation on the media, thereby guaranteeing the implementation of constitutional freedoms of words and the media.
When preparing this manual, the author was taken into account by practical experience in leading Russian law firms, as well as the experience of teaching a common civil law course at the Law Faculty of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov.
This textbook may be interesting to teachers and students of law faculties and faculties of journalism, as well as practicing lawyers, journalists and media managers