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On 12 March 2004, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that the Dutch Internet provider XS4ALL is allowed to refuse spam on its network. AbFab, a Dutch marketing company, sent large amounts of unsolicited commercial e-mail to subscribers of XS4ALL. XS4ALL applied for an injunction to prevent this, which was granted by the President of the Court of Amsterdam in March 2002 (see IRIS 2002-4: 11). Shortly after that, the Court of Appeal set aside the judgment of the Court of Amsterdam. In the final appeal, the Supreme Court stated that XS4ALL has exclusive rights to its computer capacity, transmission capacity...

The Commissariaat voor de Media (the Dutch Media Authority) has recently published the Beleidslijn zendtijdaanvragen van kerkgenootschappen en genootschappen op geestelijke grondslag (Policy on applications for broadcasting time for religious and other spiritual organisations). This policy is based on Section 39f of the Mediawet (the Dutch Media Act), according to which the Media Authority may allocate national public broadcasting time to religious and other spiritual organisations every five years. On the basis of this recently-published policy, the Media Authority shall evaluate the applications...

The Dutch television programme " Breekijzer " was fined by the Commissariat voor de Media (the Dutch Media Authority - CvdM) for self-promotion. The broadcaster of the programme, SBS6, appealed, but the Court rejected the appeal on the merits of the case. In the final appeal, the ABRvS (the Dutch Supreme Court for Administrative Law) upheld the verdict of the CvdM. According to Article 52j of the Mediabesluit (Dutch Media Regulation), commercial broadcasters may not show names, pictorial marks, services and activities, etc., of persons, companies or institutions in television programmes, when...

In reaction to a press release from a national parents' association, the State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science has evaluated the functioning of the Dutch classification system for audiovisual media, Kijkwijzer (see also IRIS Plus 2003-10). The association, Ouders en Coo, publicly cast doubt upon the classification system, stating that ten films had been rated too low. Kijkwijzer was introduced on 22 February 2001 by NICAM (Dutch Institute for the Classification of Audiovisual Media), the organization responsible for the development and implementation of Kijkwijzer on behalf of the...

UPC (a Dutch cable operator) exploits the cable television network in Wageningen and is bound by a contract with the municipality that was set up by its legal predecessor. The contract provided for the municipality of Wageningen to have a certain degree of control over the provision of cable services in the municipality. Since 1997, the Mediawet (Dutch Media Act) states that the minimum set of programmes offered by a cable provider must include a must-carry package of programmes that is defined in the Media Act and an additional may-carry package. In principle, the cable provider is free to transmit...