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On 5 September 2006, the presiding judge at the court of first instance in Brussels, where termination proceedings were brought on the basis of the Act of 30 June 1994 on copyright and neighbouring rights, had upheld the case of the company Copiepresse, responsible for the collective management of the copyright held by Belgian journalists. The judge had considered that, by using articles and photographs that had appeared in the Belgian press without first obtaining authorisation, Google - and more particularly its ‘Google News’ service and its cache sites - was violating the copyright of journalists....

On 24 January 2007, the Flemish Parliament approved new modifications of the Decreten betreffende de radio-omroep en de televisie (Audiovisual Media Decree 2005) . Aside from broadening the possibilities for alliances between regional and national private radio stations and abolishing some administrative obligations for private radio and television broadcasters, the new provisions deregulate some of the restrictions and limitations that commercial broadcasters have had to observe since 1991 regarding advertising and sponsoring. In essence, the Flemish Community is abandoning its policy of imposing...

In a judgment of 9 November 2006, the European Court of Human Rights found no violation of freedom of expression in a case concerning the withdrawal from sale and ban on distribution of an issue of the Belgian weekly magazine Ciné Télé Revue. On 30 January 1997, the magazine published an article containing extracts from the preparatory file and personal notes that an investigating judge, D., had handed to a parliamentary commission of inquiry. The article was advertised on the front cover of the magazine via the headline, which was superimposed on a photograph of the judge....

Since 1 January 2006, RTL-TVI, Club RTL and Plug TV have ceased to be considered as television broadcasting services in the French-speaking Community. That, in any case, was the view held by the Belgian PLC TVI which, until 31 December 2005, was the editor of these services and which claims that editorial responsibility for these three services now lies in the hands of its parent company, the Luxembourgish company CLT-UFA, on the basis of Luxembourgish concessions (see IRIS 2006-3: 10). The Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) of the French-speaking Community...

In its ruling in case C-356/04 the Court of Justice sheds light on the compatibility of advertisements comparing ranges of products with the Misleading and Comparative Advertising Directive. Colruyt, a company operating a chain of supermarket stores in Belgium, availed itself of two methods of comparative advertising. The first consisted in comparing general price levels in various supermarkets on the basis of prices charged in respect of a wide range of identical or similar basic consumables offered by itself and its competitors. As a second tactic, Colruyt advertised a line of products asserting...