Apărarea drepturilor nepatrimoniale. Articol de presă. Distincţia între informaţia de interes public, informaţia cu caracter public şi informaţia de interes public general

Defence of non-property rights. Press article. Distinction between information of public interest, public information and information of general public interest

Abstract

Within the context of decriminalization of the offenses of libel and insult and, to an equal extent, of the extension of environments in which the right to freedom of expression may be exercised, the need for a regulation on the definition and protection of personal non-property rights was obvious. The legislator defined, in the new Civil Code, in Article 252, the intrinsic values of the human being and expressly regulated their means of defence.

The protection of these values, such as dignity, reputation and enhanced privacy turns out to be much more difficult to achieve when the respective tort is a press offense.

Under those circumstances in which the...