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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...

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...

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...