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In a recent judgement, the Istanbul 4th Industrial Property Rights Court (dated 9 July 2007, E. 2006/113, K. 2007/152, unpublished) has decided that producers of films should benefit from the longer protection period as extended by amendment of the Turkish Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works (LIA) of 1995, regardless of whether or not the protection period set in the old law had already expired. The LIA has already been amended several times. An important change was effected in 1995, when the authorship of cinematographic works was altered in an attempt to harmonise Turkish law with EC law....

In two judgments the European Court of Human Rights considered the suspension of broadcasting licences by the Radio ve Televizyon Üst Kurulu (Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council – RTÜK) as a breach of Article 10 of the Convention. In the case of Nur Radyo Ve Televizyon Yayıncılığı A.Ş. the applicant company complained about the temporary broadcasting ban imposed on it by the RTÜK. In 1999 RTÜK censured Nur Radyo for broadcasting certain comments by a representative of the Mihr religious community, who had described an earthquake in which thousands of people...

On 30 March 2006, the Republic of Italy and the Republic of Turkey signed a film co-production agreement. The aim of the agreement is to improve the basic conditions for film co-productions between the two countries in the film, television, video and new media fields. The agreement is based on the idea that co-productions benefit the partners from both the technical and the artistic point of view. Financially, its purpose is to help both film producers and distributors. The parties are convinced it will help to foster the ongoing development of their cultural relations. It provides for a number...

A “Broadcasting Code of Conduct” consisting of 12 Articles, prepared by the Radyo ve Televizyon Ust Kurulu (Turkish Radio Television Supreme Council - RTÜK) and the Turkish Television Broadcasters Association, was signed on 3 July 2007 by Turkish television broadcasting companies including: TRT, Samanyolu TV, ATV, Kanal D, Show TV, NTV, CNN Türk, Kanal 7, Kanal A, Kral TV, Fox, Cine 5, TV8, CNBC-E, Flash TV, Kanal 1, Digitürk, Powertürk, Skytürk, and Habertürk. The main idea of this Code of Conduct is to promote a clean and safe broadcasting environment...

On 4 May 2007, the Turkish Parliament adopted the Turkish Code 5651, which regulates Internet contents and stipulates crimes committed via the Internet (see IRIS 2007-5: 19). The first part of the Code regulates criminal law matters, whereas the second part concerns civil law aspects. According to the Code, access to a website shall be banned, if there is sufficient suspicion that certain crimes are being committed via that Internet website. Those crimes are: (i) the encouraging of people to commit suicide, (ii) the sexual abuse of children, (iii) the facilitation of the abuse of drugs, (iv) the...