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On 21 December 2006 the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania adopted a ruling on the compliance of certain provisions of the Act on the National Radio and Television of Lithuania, and the Act on the Provision of Information to the Public, with the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania (see IRIS 2006-2: 17 and IRIS 2006-9: 16). These acts established the model of financing of the Lithuanian Public Service Broadcaster (LRT) and the method of assigning the newly co-ordinated radio frequencies (channels) for the broadcasting of LRT programmes. The ruling of the Constitutional Court...

On 13 December 2006, the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (RTCL) adopted the new Rules on Licensing of Broadcasting and Re-broadcasting Activities, which came into force on 20 December 2006. The new version of the rules was adopted with the aim of harmonising their provisions with the requirements of the Law on Provisions of Information to the Public, which came into force on 1 September 2006 (see IRIS 2006-9: 16). The Rules on Licensing of Broadcasting and Re-broadcasting Activities determine the types of broadcasting and re-broadcasting licences, the procedure for the issuing of licences...

On 5 December 2006, the Parliament ( Seimas ) of Lithuania adopted amendments to the Act on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information. In essence only Article 4 and Article 5 of the law were amended with the aim of providing a specific definition of harmful information and reinforcing the protection of minors against the detrimental effect of public information. Previously, Article 4 of the law foresaw an exhaustive list of criteria according to which an public information was evaluated as causing detrimental effects to the physical, mental or moral development...

On 12 October 2006, the Lithuanian Parliament ( Seimas ) adopted amendments to the Act on Copyright and Related Rights which entered into force on 31 October 2006. These amendments are crucially important for Lithuania’s audiovisual sector and are particularly required for the regulation of copyright and related rights in the presentation of the audiovisual works via new media services, e.g. mobile phones, internet, etc.. There have been some instances in Lithuania, where an entire programme or a part of it was broadcast on the Internet in exchange for payment without the consent of, or agreement...

The funding of cinema is regulated mainly by two acts, i.e. the Law on Cinema, adopted on 5 March 2002 (see IRIS 2002-3: Extra), and The Rules of the State Budget Assignation and National Cinema Support Programme Fund Allocation for Cinema Projects, approved by the Ministry of Culture on 11 October 2006 (“The Rules”). The Law on Cinema states, that Lithuanian cinema shall be financed from the State budget, municipal budgets, national cinema support programme funds and other financial sources. The State budget subsidies are allocated for inter alia : 1) the production of national films, 2) the co-production...