Freedom Of The Press And The Protection Of Pubic Figures’ Rights Of Privacy

The press freedom and privacy right are both essential and basic for our citizens in modern country ruled by law. The press freedom promotes the circulation of information and enhances the supervision by public opinions. The core of the protection of the privacy right is personal dignity. However, the conflict between the two rights occurs frequently, and in the juridical practice it is mainly shown that the conflict between the press freedom and the protection of public figures’rights of privacy. Due to the public property of the public figures, their social influence and charisma are so tremendous that the common people can’t compare, meanwhile, they also can enjoy the privilege in politics, economy and culture. Their privacy rights are not only related to the personal benefit, but also in tightly touch with the public interests. Thus, the protection of public figures’rights of privacy should be distinguished from the common people. The full text is divided into three parts, the first part discusses the difference of privacy right between the public figures and common people by defining the press freedom, the rights of privacy and the public figure at first, then expounding the value of the press freedom and the public figures’ rights of privacy. The second part discusses the conflict styles and reasons between the press freedom and the protection of public figures’rights of privacy. Based on the above two parts, the third part makes a research on how to solve the conflict of the rights, it mainly contains the mode and principle of the conflict resolution and the standard of balance mechanism.