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Some issues relating to the mechanism of generating and collecting radio and television fees were regulated by Act No. 188/1999 of 6 July 1999 which has amended several provisions of the Act No. 212/1995 o koncesionárskych poplatkoch (on Radio and Television Fees) as amended and the Act on Pursuing of Radio and Television Broadcasting. The amended provisions define the group of legal and natural persons that are charged for broadcasting services and the group of persons receiving these services free of charge. The bodies entitled to collect radio and televisions fees are the Slovak Radio and Slovak...

At the end of May, the Czech government proposed a draft bill to amend the Press Law (no.81/1966) in its revised version (Law no.86/1990). At the heart of the proposed amendments are the rights of identified individuals, ie the right of reply and the right to further statements and corrections. The right of reply is to be granted to persons whose honour, dignity or privacy is harmed by a particular report; this applies even if the content of the report is accurate. If the names of individuals are published in connection with court cases and if this leads to defamatory reporting, those persons...

On 23 May and 9 June 1997 both houses of the Czech Republic's parliament adopted the new Radio and Television Broadcasting Act. This contains inter alia regulations for increasing by 50% the fee charged to participants for receiving broadcasts. However there were no amendments to the amount of air-time public-service broadcasters are allowed to devote to advertising. Although there was one proposed amendment aimed at reducing total broadcasting time for advertising material from 1% to 0.2% of daily broadcasting time, the parliament did not adopt either this or the amendment aimed at prohibiting...

On 20.06.1996, the Parliament of the Czech Republic approved a new consolidated version of Czech copyright law (Law no.175 of 20.06.1996 on Literary, Scientific and Artistic Works). This law revises all copyright law in the Czech Republic, which had for a long time been based on the Law on literary, scientific and artistic works no. 35 of 25.03.1965, which was frequently amended, most recently by Law no. 237 of 27.09.1995 (as reported in IRIS no. 4/1996, p. 9). The Law is divided into various sections, the first covering authors' rights, the second the rights of performing artists, and the fourth...

The activity of copyright enforcement associations in the Czech Republic has recently been newly and comprehensively regulated by Act No. 237 of 27 September 1995. The act makes changes in the copyright regulations embodied in Act No. 35/1965, the "Act on literary, scientific and artistic works" of 25 March 1965, last amended by Act No. 89/1990, and in a series of regulations on fees payable on works covered by copyright and associated rights. Specifically, the act covers the public reproduction of works, the renting and hiring out of works, and remuneration for the private use of works. A new...