On September 12-13, 2026, Open Net was invited to give lectures in a Malaysian lawyers' training on media litigation hosted by Center for Independent Journalism and Malaysian Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.
He conducted the following three lectures (joining other primary lecturers on Sessions 6/7 and 8):
Session 5: International Standards on Freedom of Expression and Media Freedom
- Discussion of alignment of Article 10 of Malaysian Constitution and Article 19 of ICCPR
- Labour issues related to media workers as addressed by the ILO's new gig workers treaty - applicability to media workers
- Intersection of international law, human rights and local enforcement and institutions of law - how is it related, e.g., CEDAW, media and portrayal of women in the media as well as women’s place in the media: CEDAW provisions creating hate speech provisions to Article 20 of ICCPR
- Australian model of platforms' compensation for news articles - impact on SME media outlets
Session 6: Privacy, Confidentiality and Personal Data / Session 7: Intellectual Property and Media/ (Consolidated)
- Right to privacy (legal authority?)
- How can authorities infringe on this in your work?
- What are the consequences for the media to cross the line on
- privacy?
- What is the line that the media cannot cross for privacy?
- Data protection
- Confidentiality (source protection, national security, 3rd party info, Investigative reporting- public interest, FOI, harm-test)
- Journalistic exemptions (PDPA, CMA, Cybercrime Bill, etc)
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- Copyright
- Fair dealing and fair bargaining
- AI-generated content
- Image licensing
- User generated content
- News aggregation
- the Impact on media
- International standards for protecting IP
- Recourse to protect IP in the long-term and short-term
- Profit sharing and bargaining codes
- Ethics behind IP - when is it ok for people to share and not share?
Session 8: Online Content and Platform Regulation
- Platform liability
- Social media regulation and licensing
- Content moderation and intermediary liability
- Online harms (see ONSA, CMA, PC, Cybercrime Bill, Cybersecurity Act, PPPA amendments, etc)
- Disinformation
- Extra territorial enforcement
- Algorithms and AI (Generative and agentic)
- What does this arsenal represent? How to deal with big tech and their general compliance to laws/international standards
- Legal thresholds - How should we do it? What is a good framework
- Nuances of online regulation - what are the parameters to determine legal liability convict? - What are the ways they investigate? - International standards for online regulation - what are the best ways?
All the reading/presentation material for KS' sessions are here:
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