Criminal and civil liability for written and audio-visual works in Turkish Media Law

Media Law has appeared only in terms of written works in history, and with the inclusion of radio television in our lives by the modernisation and with the internet becoming a big part of our lives in the recent history, it has reached today with audio-visual works as well as written works. Although written and audio-visual works have informative, entertaining, instructive etc., qualifications to the public, in some cases crime can be committed through the media. The main aim of this dissertation is to deal with the concepts of criminal and legal liability in terms of written and audiovisual works in Turkish Media Law and to examine how the related problems are arranged within the framework of legal regulations. In this dissertation, the criminal responsibilities of written works within the scope of the Press Law and the Turkish Criminal Code, as well as written works the criminal responsibilities of audiovisual works within the scope of the TRT, RTÜK and Internet Law, and the criminal regulations stipulated by the relevant laws within the scope of these criminal responsibilities are examined. In addition to this, the legal regulations applied to the attacks on personal rights through the written and audiovisual works within the scope of the Turkish Civil Code and the Turkish Code of Obligations are discussed. Besides, within the scope of Code of Opinion and Art Works, crimes against the financial and spiritual rights of the work owner's are examined.