Mainz media institute

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The Mainz Media Institute is an independent scientific institute whose purpose is to promote science, research and education in the field of media law and to participate in the further development of media regulations.

history

The Mainzer Medieninstitut sponsoring association was founded on September 22, 1999 as a private law association. The members of the association are representatives of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate , the Second German Television , Südwestrundfunk , the state center for media and communication Rhineland-Palatinate and the WDR. Since 2002, the Mainz Media Institute has been organizing the Master’s degree in Media Law (LL.M.) in cooperation with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Institute

Dieter Dörr is the founding director of the media institute . Doerr was known nationwide as under his presidency, the Commission on Concentration in the Media (KEK) the Axel Springer Verlag forbade the station ProSiebenSat.1 Media to take over. According to the calculations of the KEK, the combination of newspaper, television and Internet offers would have created a predominant power of opinion.

In February 2018 there was a change in the board of directors: Matthias Cornils , professor of media law, cultural law and public law at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and deputy director of the institute since 2010, as well as Birgit Stark, professor of communication studies at the institute, have been appointed directors for journalism and since 2014 spokesperson for the research focus media convergence. The new dual leadership is accompanied by a programmatic realignment. In the future, the institute will work more interdisciplinary by linking the two disciplines. The current business of the institute is carried out by the administrative office. Nicole Zorn is the managing director.

The organs of the association are the board of directors and the general assembly. The board of directors includes: the chairman of state secretary Heike Raab , the deputy chairman Peter Weber (ZDF), the treasurer Hermann Eicher (SWR) and the secretaries Marc Jan Eumann (LMK) and Eva-Maria Michel (WDR). Deputy board members are: Harald Hammann (State Chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate), Richard Deicke (ZDF), Felix Hertel (SWR), Harald Zehe (LMK).

Areas of activity

The research of the Mainz Media Institute has always dealt with questions of national, European and international media law. For some time now, the perspective has expanded beyond broadcasting law, which was initially in the foreground, to include other fields of communication law, such as telemedia law, press and copyright law, telecommunications law and competition law, and recently increasingly information and data protection law.

In addition to specific problems with the interpretation of norms, the central questions of communication regulation in the Internet society form a focus. This is as much about the protection and freedom security functions of the law - for example with regard to the protection of minors, copyrights or protection against hate speech - as it is the constitutional mandate to ensure open and informed communication. These analyzes are intended to help improve the basis for making decisions about necessary or sensible legal reforms in communications law. From the communication science side, theoretical knowledge and empirical evidence contribute to this, which provide urgently required knowledge about the modes of operation of public communication and create a deeper understanding of changed media usage patterns.

For this research, the Mainz Media Institute is closely connected and collaborated with the successfully established research focus on media convergence at Johannes Gutenberg University - an interdisciplinary research network that represents the profile-building media expertise at the university and researches the influence of digitization on social change processes across disciplines.

Every year the institute organizes events on current media law issues and issues in Mainz (“Mainz Media Talk”) and in Brussels (“Brussels Media Talk”). Together with the research focus on media convergence at Johannes Gutenberg University, it also organizes the interdisciplinary "Mainz Media Forum" several times a year. The institute prepares legal opinions and comments on current topics in broadcasting and media law through legal publications.

Master's degree in media law

In cooperation with the Faculty of Law and Economics at Johannes Gutenberg University, the Media Institute conducts the master's degree in "Media Law" (LL.M.). The course is aimed in particular at lawyers and attorneys who want to acquire in-depth knowledge in the areas of copyright and media law. The compulsory modules also cover the subject areas of the specialist lawyer for copyright and media law required by the specialist lawyer regulations for proof of theoretical knowledge . Since the 2015/2016 academic year, the subject areas of the specialist lawyer for information technology law required by the specialist lawyer regulations for proof of theoretical knowledge have also been offered in the elective modules .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.mainzer-medieninstitut.de/traegerverein/
  2. ↑ Mainz media institute opened . In: Wiesbaden Courier . Features, March 30, 2000.
  3. ↑ a b The Mainz Media Institute . In: Darmstädter Echo . Media department, July 3, 2010.
  4. ↑ Media Law course started . In: Allgemeine Zeitung . November 11, 2002, p. Mainz department .