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The amendment to the Copyright Act effective as of 22 May 2006 (adopted as Act No. 216/2006 Coll., amending Act No. 121/2000 Coll. (Copyright Act, see IRIS 2000-7: 11) instructs the Ministry of Culture in its Section 25(7) to issue an ordinance specifying the types of devices for making printed reproductions and the types of empty carriers of recordings subject to a fee pursuant to Section 25(1), as well as the amount of lump fees according to the types of the devices for making printed reproductions and the types of empty carriers of recordings. The amendment in this connection complemented a...

The European Court of Human Rights has, on several occasions, recognised “the right of the public to be properly informed” and “the right to receive information”, but until recently the Court was very reluctant to derive from Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights a right to have access to public or administrative documents. In the cases of Leander v. Sweden (1987), Gaskin v. United Kingdom (1989) and Sîrbu v. Moldova (2004)), the Strasbourg Court has indeed recognised “that the public has a right to receive information as a corollary of the specific function of journalists, which...

In the course of 2006, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers (CM) adopted a number of country-specific Resolutions in the context of the Second Monitoring Cycle of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM). The Resolutions focus on the Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia and contain a number of provisions concerning the (audiovisual) media (for similar provisions in earlier country-specific Resolutions, see IRIS 2006-2: 4). In respect of the Czech Republic, the CM recommends, inter alia, that the authorities take “additional...

The decision on the allocation of the first Czech multiplexes has been taken. The invitation for tenders for two digital networks in the Czech Republic was issued about 16 months ago. However, before a decision was taken, the findings made during the DVB-T trials concerning public acceptance and the technical functionality of digital terrestrial television had to be included in the practical planning process. Indeed, part of the responsibility that falls to the regulatory body in its efforts to drive forward the introduction of DVB-T is to deal with the commercial and financial framework for digitisation....

In April 2006, the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament adopted the law amending the Cinematography Fund Act (Act No. 241/1992 Coll. on the Cinematography Fund). The amending act should have entered into force on 1 July 2006. On 12 May 2006, however, the President of the Czech Republic vetoed the law. Therefore, the amending act could only enter into effect if a qualified majority of the Czech Parliament (i.e., 101 deputies) overrides the veto. This was not the case, so finally the amending act did not enter into force.