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By decision no.12/1997 of the Director General of the Romanian Copyright Office, a Commission for negotiating copyright dues and neighbouring rights for the retransmission by cable of musical, literary and audio-visual works, the work of performing artists, and sound recordings has been set up. The legal foundation for the decision is contained in the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act no.8/1996 (see IRIS 1996-8 : 11). The Commission comprises representatives of the companies for the collective management of copyright and neighbouring rights, representing the interests of authors and performing...

The National Audiovisual Council (NAC) has increased the duration of compulsory broadcasting of local programmes for its affiliated broadcasting stations. The NAC's latest decision amends the conditions and procedure for broadcasting audio-visual programmes by its affiliated broadcasting stations. Article 1 of the decision amends a previous decision by the NAC and provides in its first paragraph that the affiliation contract shall not become valid until the station's programme schedule has been authorised. The second paragraph of Article 1 extends the duration of broadcasts of local programmes...

The Romanian Law on audio-visual of 20 May 1992 (No 48/1992) gives authority to the National Audio-visual Council (NAC), to formulate binding rules that implement certain provisions of the Act, for example, in the field of advertising. On 30 January 1997, the NAC issued a Decision concerning measures for the protection of mionors. This Decision prohibits televised broadcasting of programmes which may affect the physical, moral or mental development of minors due to their vicious or extremely violent nature (Art. 1). The same decision restricts the broadcasting of erotic, pornographic or extremely...

Since September 1995, the National Audiovisual Council (NAC) has adopted a three-prong approach, in line with the recent economic and political developments within the audio-visual sector.Firstly, in view of the local elections of June 1996 and the general elections of November 1996, the NAC made the final additions to existing legislation so as to provide better guarantees for the application of the broad principles laid down by the constitution and the law (equal broadcasting time, regulation of opinion polls, etc.) with regard to broadcasting of electoral campaigns. Romanian and foreign observers...

Tuesday 26 March 1996 saw the promulgation of the law on copyright and neighbouring rights. The law first of all sets out the subject, the object, the content, the duration of the copyright, the limits and the conditions for the transfer of the rights and then goes on to lay down the fields of application : computer programmes, literary works, artistic and patrimonial works and audio-visual programmes. Special provisions were made for the last-mentioned, in chapter 5 of the law, on "television and broadcasting corporations". It is also interesting to note that the law makes ample provision for...