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On 16 January 2013, the Office for Copyright Protection (Office) recommended to the Ministry of Culture the suspension of the licenses of two agencies that administer intellectual property rights. The agencies are Albautor, which holds rights to musical works, and AKDIE, which administers the rights of interpreters. According to the Office, which is the state supervisory body for the area of copyright, these two agencies have not been able to collect royalties and to distribute them among authors. In addition, the Office stated that these agencies failed to submit the required information to this...

In several meetings of the Komisioni për Edukimin dhe Mjetet e Informimit Publik (Parliamentary Media Commission - KEMIP) in the course of December 2012, the discussions on the 2013 state budget for the electronic media regulatory authority Këshilli Kombëtar i Radios dhe Televizionit (National Council of Radio and Television - KKRT) and the public broadcaster Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (Albanian Radio and Television - RTSH) highlighted the existing problems in current methods of determining their respective funding. According to Art. 11 of the Law no. 8410 (on Public and Private Radio and Television...

The Keshili Kombetar i Radios dhe Televizionit (National Council of Radio and Television - KKRT) has issued a warning to radio and television broadcasters regarding the advertising of medical products. The KKRT found that the broadcasters violate extensively against Albanian law. According to Article 58 of the Law no. 8410, of 30.9.1998, “On public and private radio and television in the Republic of Albania”, the broadcasting of advertising spots for medicine or medical treatment that is available only upon subscription is prohibited. Based on this regulation, the KKRT has asked electronic media...

In the first months of 2012 the National Council of Radio and Television (NCRT) has monitored some of the programmes on the two national commercial TV stations, TV Klan and Top Channel TV. The NCRT reported that the monitoring was carried out after complaints by citizens about these programmes. According to the outcome of the monitoring process, the satirical weekly programme broadcast by Top Channel TV, “Portokalli”, used vulgar language, with an undue amount of allegations. The statement said that in spite of the humorous nature of the programme, the choices were not always justified. In addition,...

On 2 May 2012, the Council of Ministers approved the Strategy for Digital Switchover, which will pave the way for the official start of the switchover to digital broadcasting (see IRIS 2010-6/6). The first version of a strategy for this process appeared in 2005, right after the first digital multiplex emerged on the market. Ever since, there have been several attempts to draft, revise and approve the strategy. This version of the strategy was the work of an ad-hoc committee, composed of the responsible ministries, public service broadcaster, electronic media regulatory authority, representatives...