The legal basis in the field of information, communication and media is changing so rapidly that the traditional book form often seems inappropriate for practitioners of the law as well as for publishers. A collection of laws is hardly on the market when, in all likelihood, the media treaty has already changed again. In the case of widely available online sources, it is often unclear which state of the law is being presented, not to mention that the reliability of the source is not always identifiable.
Against this backdrop - and particularly in order to have a functional compilation available for teaching purposes - the idea of a collection of laws was born, which is published in the series Working Papers ot the Hans-Bredow-Institut in an unpretentious form. It can be updated regularly and is available as a PDF file on the internet. Accordingly, the selection is primarily based on the needs of students in the elective subject "Information and Communication" at the Faculty of Law at the University of Hamburg. However, the majority of the laws printed do not reflect Hamburg state law. The collection can therefore also be used in the teaching of other states and in the practice of media law.
In the current 19th edition, which has 567 pages, the collection of laws has been expanded to include, among others, the State Treaty on Media, the Telecommunications Telemedia Data Protection Act, the Copyright Service Provider Act and the European Code of Electronic Communications.
