PERSON IN CHARGE IN CIVIL RESPONSIBILITY CAUSED BY THE JOURNALISTIC ACTIVITIES

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant professor at faculty of law,Tehran university

2 PH.D in Private Law from Tehran University

Abstract

Since Journalistic activities are done as team works with many people
involved as participants, when a journalistic activity does somebody harm or
results in disorder or public damage, locating the agent of the harm, the
person in charge, the responsibility type in terms of the joint-liability in case
that there are more than one person in charge, or other responsibility types
becomes difficult. In this regard, there is a variety of theories in legal
systems of the world to determine the person in charge. The Iranian press
law, however, is ambiguous in this case. This paper studies the topic, brings
different related theories under analysis and evaluation, and proves that the
Iranian press law has accepted the theory of collective responsibility.

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