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On 5 November 2004 the Government of the Republic of Albania approved the draft law "On the ratification of the Protocol of the European Convention on Transfrontier Television" The Protocol aims at the development of conditions for TV broadcasting. It envisages that the Member States have to ensure that broadcasting can be received. They also have to ensure, by the necessary means within their jurisdiction, that a considerable proportion of broadcasting time is reserved for European works. The aim of the draft law is to underline the importance that the freedom of expression and information, as...

On 8 October 2004 the Albanian Government passed the new bill "On copyrights and related rights". The aim of the new bill is to enforce measures against piracy of intellectual property in accordance with the market economy. For the first time the law "On copyrights" had been approved by the Albanian Parliament in 1992. Numerous changes have been made to this law during the 12 years of its implementation. But despite this, respect for copyrights in practice is still a big concern in the country. The new law is expected to better regulate the relations between rightsholders and users. According...

The Annual Report on the Activities of the Albanian Public Radio Television (RTSH) presented to the Parliament of the Republic of Albania in March 2004 by the Chief Managing Council of the RTSH, pointed out that RTSH remains in an identity crisis, even though five years have gone by since the law on the transformation of this institution into public property was passed. The report stated that the origin of the problem lays inter alia in the incomplete implementation of the law on private and public radio and television channels in the Republic of Albania. So it will take more time to convert the...

On 19 March 2003 the Parliament of the Republic of Albania approved the "Annual Report on the Activities of the Keshilli Kombetar i Radiotelevizioneve (National Council for Radio and Television ­ NCRT) for 2003". The Report, which provides information on the development of the licensing and monitoring of Albanian electronic media by the NCRT, is discussed at the beginning of each year in Parliament. In order to put the work of the NCRT on a firmer basis, the Albanian Parliament passed an amendment to the Law No. 8410 "On public and private television and radio stations in the Republic of Albania"...

The Net of Italian Television Channels (R.T.I.), an organization defending the rights of electronic media in Italy, has filed a lawsuit at an Albanian court to cease the comedy show Fiks fare of the Albanian private TV station Top Channel. The show has been broadcast via satellite since December 2002 and has managed to secure a broad audience that reaches beyond the borders of Albania. The R.T.I. claims that the exclusive copyright of such a program in Italy, entitled Striscia la notizia, belongs to the private Italian Television channel Canale 5 of the Mediaset corporation. The broadcasting of...