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Refine your searchIRIS 2023-1:1/18 [GB] Ofcom reports on its first year of VSP regulation | |
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Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, published its first report on video-sharing platforms (VSPs) since becoming the statutory regulator for such platforms established in the UK. This is the first of its kind under the VSP regime and reveals information previously unpublished by in-scope regulated companies. - Platforms’ compliance with the new VSP regime Ofcom’s report outlines the regulator’s key outcomes from the first year of regulation (October 2021 to October 2022). Its findings stem from the use of the regulator’s statutory powers under section 368Z10(3)... |
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IRIS 2022-10:1/12 [GB] UK Coroner orders major online platform to provide to his court their proposals to provide suitable self-regulation to prevent future teenage deaths from suicide. | |
Whilst the UK Parliament’s Online Harms Bill 2022 awaits further passage through both the Houses of Common and Lords, the verdict in a recent Coroner’s Court decision has invited some of the leading online platforms to consider self-regulatory measures to protect children and vulnerable adults from harmful content. The Coroner’s hearing was heard in the Northern District of Greater London Coroner’s Court, before H. M. Coroner and senior coroner Mr Andrew Walker, concerning the suicide of 14 years old Molly Rose Russell who died on the 21 November 2017. Despite a... |
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IRIS 2022-10:1/17 [GB] DCMS report on influencer culture: no indication of a change of mood in the government response | |
On 23 September 2022, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee, which is responsible for scrutinising the work of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and its associated public bodies (including the BBC), published the government response to its report Influencer Culture: Lights, camera, inaction? (previously reported on IRIS 2022-7/18). The Committee had found low rates of compliance with advertising regulation and concluded that employment protection had failed to keep up with the growth of online influencer culture, leaving those working in... |
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IRIS 2022-9:1/16 [GB] Sky News broadcasts about a convicted criminal did not constitute an unwarranted infringement of his privacy | |
Ofcom has held that Sky News had not undertaken an unwarranted infringement of privacy in relation to two broadcasts concerning the release of a notorious convicted conman, Mr Mark Acklom, by showing a pixelated photograph of himself with his family and another picture taken on an aircraft. Applying Ofcom rules, and having considered Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the regulator’s determination balanced Mr Acklom’s right to privacy against Sky’s freedom of expression to report matters in the public interest, and on balance, in the particular circumstances,... |
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IRIS 2022-8:1/12 [GB] The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court determines that the ‘Del Boy’ character in Only Fools and Horses can be protected under copyright as a literary work | |
The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) has determined that a dining experience company, Only Fools The (cushty) Dining Experience and other associated defendants (collectively referred to as the Dining Experience) had borrowed characters and features from the successful Only Fools and Horses TV comedy series (OFAH) thus infringing its copyright. Further, the IPEC determined that the character of ‘Del Boy’ was a literary work and the Dining Experience had infringed its copyright by using many distinctive characteristics. This is the first time in the UK that copyright has... |