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The National Council for Radio and Television (NCRT) is expected to complete the tender for licensing seven companies providing national free-to-air DTT content by the end of October 2018. Ultimately, five of the six companies that participated on 11 January 2018 met the legal requirements. According to the NCRT’s decision of 27 June 2018, one company should not be accepted for the principal reason that its sole ultimate shareholder had failed to fully establish its actual connection with the financial means used for the formation of the capital of the candidate company. It was underlined that...

On 22 February 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its judgment in Alpha Doryforiki Tileorasi Anonymi Etairia v. Greece concerning the fining of a broadcaster over hidden camera footage of a politician. The applicant in the case was the owner of a Greek television channel, ALPHA. In January 2002, ALPHA broadcast a television show named “Jungle” (Ζούγκλα) in which three videos filmed with a hidden camera were broadcast. In the first video, A.C., then a member of the Hellenic Parliament and chairman of the parliamentary committee on electronic gambling, was shown entering a...

In April 2017, the Athens Court of Appeals, by its Judgment no 1909/2017, upheld the Judgment no. 5249/2014 of the Court of First Instance, in a case concerning the posting of hyperlinks. More specifically, the website www.livemovies.gr, operating as an online inventory for audiovisual works (films, TV programs and TV series), contained hyperlinks leading users to third-party websites (usually, but not always, official TV channels’ websites), where those works were available for live streaming without any restrictions, technical measures or payment conditions. A Greek collecting society for musical...

New developments on the licensing procedure for free-to-air, nationwide, DTT are to be mentioned, after the abrogation of the former tender due to a decision of the Council of State (see IRIS 2017-3/19). In June 2017, the Parliament voted a provision requiring all providers of national coverage to broadcast their programmes using high definition and standard definition formats at the same time until 31 December 2021. In a report submitted to the Parliament, this decision is justified by findings that "a significant number of television sets are old-fashioned and do not receive a high-definition...

A new act on collective rights management (Law 4481/2017) was passed by the Greek Parliament and published on 20 July 2017. It incorporates Directive 2014/26/EU into national legislation, amends certain provisions of Law 2121/1993 (Copyright, Related Rights and Cultural Matters) (see IRIS 1995-1:Extra), and introduces provisions for combatting copyright infringements on the Internet. The new legislation regulates collective rights management in Greece and, among other issues, covers the organisation of collective management organisations (CMOs), the representation and membership of rightsholders,...