Search results : 116

The Slovak state-owned television channel, STV, did not violate broadcasting law when it transmitted short advertisements during ice hockey games at times other than in the breaks stipulated by the rules (occurring at one-third and two-third intervals), according to the decision given by the Rada Pre Vysielanie A Retransmisiu (Broadcasting Council) in its meeting on 19 November 2003. During the transmission of the 2003 ice hockey world championship in Finland, the television channel had interrupted the games as they were being played, by inserting short advertisements. The Broadcasting Council...

Amendments to the legislation on Slovak Television and Slovak Radio, which had been expected since 1999, were passed by Parliament in December 2003 and came into force on 1 January 2004 (Act on Slovak Radio) and on 1 February 2004 (Act on Slovak Television) respectively. The zákon o Slovenskom rozhlase (Act on Slovak Radio) and the zákon o Slovenskej televízii (Act on Slovak Television) replace the rules of 1991, the Act on Slovak Television No. 254/1991 Zb and Act on Slovak Radio No. 255/1991 Zb, which previously were the legal tools dealing with the transition from state media to public service...

On 1 February 2004 the new law on E-Commerce entered into force in Slovakia. The law defines basic concepts from the field of electronic commerce, such as “Information Society services”, “providers and consumers of Information Society services”, “business communication” and what is referred to as the co-ordinated field. The concept “Information Society services” covers any service normally provided for value and effected over a distance during a connection by electronic means through an electronic network, following a request made by a consumer for such a service. This especially applies to business...

Law N° 618/2003 Coll. on copyright and related rights replaced the old Copyright Act (law N° 383/1997 Coll.), as well as law N° 283/1997 Coll. on the collective management of authors' rights. The new law entered into force on 1 January 2004. The act has introduced a fundamental change with respect to the systematics of copyright law: individual authors' rights and exploitation rights are no longer treated as one. The resulting separation of these two rights has now led, amongst other things, to the fact that individual copyright can no longer be inherited and that the right of exploitation of materials...

On 23 September 2003, the Slovak Parliament passed Act No. 418/2003 Z.z. amending the Zákon SNR c.254/1991 Zb. o Slovenskej televízii v znení neskorsích predpisov (Act No. 254/1991 on Slovak Television). As referred to previously (see IRIS 2003-9:12) an essential legal change regarding the business activities of Slovenská Televízia (Slovak public service television - STV) had been expected either as a part of completely new legislation governing public service radio and television or as an amendment of the current Act on Slovak Television; the latter alternative was the one chosen in the end....