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On 31 March 1999 the Minister of Canadian Heritage signed a Film and Television Co-Production Agreement between Canada and Finland. On 2 April 1999, Canada executed a similar angreement with Norway. Both agreements resemble those already in effect with other countries and set out the criteria which Canada-Finland and Canada-Norway projects respectively must meet in order to qualify as official co-productions.

The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Surveillance Authority has sent a letter of formal notice to the Norwegian government in which it questions the dual role of the Norwegian Transport and Communications Ministry with regard to the dominant Norwegian telecoms operator Telenor. The EFTA Surveillance Authority is disturbed by the fact that the Ministry is the sole owner of Telenor and that it functions as the appeals body for decisions taken by the national regulatory authority for postal services and telecommunications. The EFTA Surveillance Authority calls on Norway, as a member to the European...

Anyone connected to the Internet must expect outsiders to probe their system for security holes, Norway's Supreme Court held in a recent verdict, thereby implying that unprotected data is public. The case started as a piece of investigative journalism, when a staff member of an Oslo-based data security firm assisted a news team from national broadcaster NRK-TV in trying to break into the data system of the University of Oslo. Trying - unsuccessfully - to log on to different machines in the University's IT network from outside as a "guest" and as an "anonymous" user, the data engineer also made...

In a discussion paper circulated to concerned parties on 2 December 1998, the Norwegian Ministry of Culture proposes that the public service broadcaster Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) should be allowed greater freedom to enter into commercial activities, on condition that the public service programme profile "will not be commercialised" and that business activities are not cross-subsidised from license fee income. Revenues from such activities must be recirculated into strengthening programme production. Current legislation prohibits advertising in NRK transmissions, i.e., in the two nation-wide...

At the end of August, the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Cultural Affairs published revised rules for the support of Norwegian national film production. The rules, which in many other countries take the form of a Finance Law, are issued as "Guidelines", an administrative legal instrument with a long tradition in Norway. The Guidelines cover "selective" support for feature film production, co-productions between independent film production companies and broadcasters, and short film production, as well as the "automatic" support for films playing in cinema theatres. The Guidelines provide detailed rules...