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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...

In a decision of July 16, 1998, the Oslo byrett (Oslo magistrate's court, the court of first-instance) prohibited the Internet news service Nettavisen from continuing the practice of compiling its guides to cinema and dining out from the review ratings given by three Oslo newspapers. The court found that this practice consitutes a breach of the right of quotation in the Norwegian Law on Intellectual Property, as well as a breach of the principles of good business practice contained in the Marketing Law. Nettavisen has systematically been compiling and presenting a version in table form of the "dice-roll...

On 19 June 1998, Norway ratified the European Convention concerning copyright and neighbouring rights issues for cross-border satellite broadcasting. The Convention was opened up to signature on 11 May 1994. It covers satellite broadcasting of radio and television programmes. It attempts to solve the problems encountered by right holders of programmes or other formats transmitted by satellite. To achieve this, the Convention defines the criteria by which the country of satellite transmission is determined and thus the law that is to be applied for copyright and neighbouring rights issues. It also...

The German Government and the European Commission together organised a European Ministerial Conference on "Global Information Networks: Realising the Potential" in Bonn from 6 to 8 July 1997. It ended with the adoption of a declaration, signed by participating ministers from EU, EFTA and Central and Eastern European countries, as well as Cyprus. In this declaration, the ministers attempt to define the role of both the public and private sectors, the aim being to strike an optimum balance between the opportunities and the dangers inherent in the rapid development of the information technologies....

The recently amended Norwegian Broadcasting Regulation has entered into force. The new set of rules replaces several former provisions and unites all rules relating to broadcasting in one single Regulation. The amended Broadcasting Regulation implements the Directive on `Television Without Frontiers' in more detail than before. It explicitly stipulates that the broadcasters are obliged to reserve 50% of their transmission time for European productions, and 10% for independent productions. The already existing prohibition concerning the broadcasting of advertising in conjunction with childrens'...