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Following the plan for radio spectrum utilisation, the Ceský telekomunikacni urád (Czech Telecommunication Office), in December 2006, issued the Technical Plan for the Transition from Terrestrial Analogue Television Broadcasting to Terrestrial Digital Television Broadcasting (“Technical Transition Plan“). In the Technical Transition Plan the Czech Telecommunication Office laid down, in particular, the deadlines, conditions and procedures for the process of developing electronic communications networks for terrestrial digital television broadcasting, including the deadlines, conditions and procedures...

The Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic has established criteria for appraising the distinction between advertising and sponsoring in its ruling dated 30 November 2006. The starting point for this development involved various decisions of the Czech Rada pro rozhlasové a televizní vysílání (Broadcasting Council) in which it had imposed fines on various broadcasting companies for introducing advertising into sponsorship material. The decisions by the Broadcasting Council were contested in later proceedings. Some decisions were subsequently upheld by the Prague municipal court while...

On 6 March 2007, the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic issued its verdict in a case concerning the use of television and radio receivers in restaurants. The plaintiff was the owner of a restaurant in Prague who had set up radio and television receivers on her premises. The Prague municipal authorities had fined her because she had not paid a fee to the Ochranný svaz autorský pro práva k dílům hudebním (copyright collecting company - OSA), which was responsible for protecting copyright in the Czech Republic, thus infringing the Copyright Act. The plaintiff argued that radio and...

Liberty Global, which owns the Czech Republic's largest cable network operator UPC Česká republika, has bought the second largest cable network operator in the Czech market, Karneval, for EUR 322.5 million. The new company therefore has 800,000 customers. Karneval previously had 310,000 customers, 253,000 for cable television and 57,000 for the Internet, while UPC had 300,000 for cable TV, 100,000 for satellite TV and 100,000 for the Internet. The company also has customers in the telephone services sector. The Czech cartels authority approved the merger of UPC and Karneval , subject to five conditions...

Act No. 121/2000 Coll. on Copyright and Rights Related to Copyright and on Amendments to Certain Acts (the Copyright Act 2000), was amended by Act No. 81/2005 Coll., Act No. 61/2006 Coll. and Act No. 216/2006 Coll. In the year 2000, when the Copyright Act 2000 was issued, the Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the Information society and the Directive 2001/84/EC on the resale right for the benefit of the author of an original work of art were under preparation. Some principles of this new Directives were already embodied in the Copyright...