Freedom of expression The right of people to express their opinion publicly without government interference, subject to the law

against libel, incitement to violence or rebellion etc.

The term freedom of expression is sometimes used synonymously, but includes any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used. In practice, the right to freedom of speech is not absolute in any country and the right is commonly subject to limitations, as with libel,slander, obscenity, sedition (including, for example inciting ethnic hatred), copyright violation, revelation of information that is classified or otherwise.

Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, states that: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."[6] Today freedom of speech, or the freedom of expression, is recognized in international and regionalhuman rights law. The right is enshrined in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Article 13 of the American Convention on Human Rights and Article 9 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.[7]Based on John Milton's arguments, freedom of speech is understood as a multi-faceted right that includes not only the right to express, or disseminate, information and ideas, but three further distinct aspects:

the right to seek information and ideas; the right to receive information and ideas; the right to impart information and ideas

International, regional and national standards also recognize that freedom of speech, as the freedom of expression, includes any medium, be it orally, in written, in print, through the Internet or through art forms. This means that the protection of freedom of speech as a right includes not only the content, but also the means of expression. Media. Media describes all the means of communication, as newspapers, radio, and TV, that provide the public with news, entertainment, etc., usually along with advertising. Essentially, that means almost anything can be media as long as it is watched. Media takes many forms in our world today. Newspaper, television, printed matter and radio are all forms of media. There are great advantages to having a country that protects your right to a

free press. You can use any form of media to express your ideas and present your opinions to the public. The media is often considered the mouthpiece of modern culture.

Law
the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties:

Media Law.
As the popularity of media became widespread, the field of media law became more popular, as certain corporate professionals have wanted to participate in media. As a result, many young lawyers fledged into media law which allowed them the opportunity to increase connections in media, and the opportunity to become a media presenter or an acting role if such an opportunity arose.media operator should be aware about media law. In recent years, the number of laws and regulations dealing with information and information technologies has exploded. As a result, the boundaries of the field of media policy are increasingly difficult to discern. Problems raised by technologies, media practices, the nature of policy-making processes and the unique characteristics of media as a policy issue area confound the effort. A variety of approaches to defining the field exist in the literature, but, to be useful, a definition of the field of media policy must be valid, comprehensive, theoretically based, methodologically operationalizable and translatable into the terms of legacy law. This article suggests that, broadly viewed, media policy is co-extant with the field of information policy, defined as all law and regulation dealing with an information production chain that includes information creation, processing, flows and use. More narrowly, media policy as a distinct subfield of information policy deals with those technologies, processes and content by which the public itself is mediated.