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On 21 December 2004, the Rechtbank `s Hertogenbosch (the District Court of `s Hertogenbosch) convicted a person (hereinafter referred to as "J") to suspended sentence of imprisonment for four weeks (with a probation period of two years) for having deliberately insulted Jews over the internet. J. had created a web-site on which he had put several texts denying that the holocaust ever occurred. He had also created links to other texts, one of which was a full-text version of a book entitled "Did six million people really die?", written by Richard E. Harwood. Furthermore, he had translated several...

On 3 February 1988, a Co-Production Agreement was signed between France and the Netherlands. It entered into force on 1 March 1989. The Agreement applies to cinematographic works of any length. Third country producers may join the co-production, if their country is linked to France or the Netherlands by a films co-production agreement. Financial contribution shall be at least 20%. For further information contact: - Centre national de la cinématographie - Direction financière et juridique - Service juridique http://www.cnc.fr/index_dyn.htm?h_infos_pratiques/r2/ssrub1/p1_d1_textes.htm - Nederlands...

The Dutch Act implementing Directive 2001/29/EC on copyright and related rights in the information society (see IRIS 2001-5: 3) finally received royal sanction on 6 July 2004, and entered into force on 1 September 2004. This act was adopted more than eighteen months after the deadline of 22 December 2002 set by the Directive for implementation into national legislation. The length of the Dutch implementation process can be explained not only by the fact that two national elections took place during that period, but also by the complexity of the task that confronted the legislator. The implementation...

On 20 April 2004, the Eerste Kamer (the Dutch Senate) adopted an Act to implement the EC Electronic Communications Framework (see IRIS 2002-3: 4) into Dutch law (Act of 22 April 2004). The adoption of this Act introduces a number of modifications to the existing Telecommunicatiewet (Telecommunications Act), which entered into force in December 1998. Major changes include improved consumer protection (including anti-spam regulation) and a more flexible approach to the application of competition law. Furthermore, there is now a single regulatory framework that applies to all kinds of electronic...

On 21 April 2004, the European Commission announced its decision to refer to the European Court of Justice the six Member States that had still not fully implemented the new regulatory framework for electronic communications into their national law (i.e. Belgium, Germany, Greece, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands). The new framework was to be implemented by July 2003, but 8 Member States failed to meet this deadline and in October 2003 the Commission opened infringement proceedings against those States (see IRIS 2003-10: 5 and IRIS 2004-2: 4). Proceedings against two Member States, Spain (see...