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The revised Audiovisual Act took effect on 1 January 2025, allowing for the transformation of the Czech Film Fund into the Czech Audiovisual Fund.  This transformation expands the fund’s scope, allowing for support for diverse forms of content, including series and video games, in addition to films. The new act introduces changes to the financial obligations for on-demand audiovisual media services. VOD service providers present in or targeting Czechia will be required to pay a fee based on their total revenues in Czechia to the Czech Audiovisual Fund, to be divided between a levy...

For the first time in history, the Czech courts have directly dealt with the issue of copyright protection for content created with the help of generative AI. The decision was made available by Prague's municipal court. According to the data in the judicial database, no appeal was filed against it and it is therefore final. The dispute was sparked by a Prague law firm's publication of an image created by artificial intelligence. According to the law firm (the plaintiff), the image was created based on a prompt/assignment: "create a visual representation of two parties signing...

The regulatory body, the Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting, has issued a Recommendation to broadcasters and operators of on-demand audiovisual services for the preparation of Action Plans for making television programmes accessible to persons with hearing impairments and persons with visual impairments (hereafter “Action Plans”) for the period from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2025. The draft Action Plans must be discussed with organisations associating persons with hearing impairments and persons with visual impairments. The result of negotiations between the operator and...

Parliament has adopted an amendment to the Acts on Czech Television and Czech Radio concerning the Council of Czech Television and the Council of Czech Radio. Until now, the Chamber of Deputies had elected all of the members of these councils. The amendment stipulating that council members are to be elected and dismissed by the Senate in addition to the Chamber of Deputies has been added to the current version. The Chamber of Deputies will elect 12 of the 18 members of the Council of Czech Television, and the Senate will elect six of them. At the Council of Czech Radio, which has nine members,...

The television broadcaster, AMC Networks Central Europe s.r.o., has been found by the Broadcasting Council to have committed an offence contracy to Article 60(1)(l) of Act No. 231/2001 Coll. by violating the provisions of Article 49(1)(c) of the same Act. Under this last Article, broadcasters are obliged to ensure that any commercial communication regarding erotic services and products, or human medicinal products or dietary supplements to support erections and sexual performance are not broadcast between 06:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. At 2:07 p.m. on 15 January 2022, the network's SPORT2...