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On 24 August 2016, the Government of the Czech Republic approved Decision no. 730 on the Terrestrial Digital Broadcasting of the public service broadcaster Czech Radio. The Decision allocates frequencies to Czech Radio for the period 2016-2021 in accordance with the rules of procedure under the Electronic Communications Act (Act no. 127/2005 Coll.). Furthermore, the Decision states that Czech Radio has to start a regular digital broadcast. It establishes an advisory body within the Ministry of Culture for coordinating the evaluation process and the preparation of other decisions on the digitisation...

On 20 July 2016, the Czech government approved the strategy for the full transition of the digital terrestrial television to the DVB-T2 new broadcast standard. The strategy envisages that the process of transition to DVB-T2 will be launched in autumn 2016, accompanied by an information campaign. On 1 February 2021, all existing DVB-T networks will be switched off synchronously. According to the government’s strategy, an evaluation of the realisation of the transition to DVB-T2 has to be submitted each year on 31 January. The first evaluation should be submitted by 31 January 2017. In the assessment...

On 5 May 2016, the Parliament of the Czech Republic adopted Act no. 139/2016 Coll., amending Act no. 496/2012 Coll., On audiovisual works and promotion of cinematography, and amending some other laws (the Audiovisual Act). The aim of this amendment is to secure sufficient funding to support cinematography. This should enable the long-term planning and predictable funding of the State Fund of Cinematography, so that it can create a long-term strategy of supporting the cinema. The State Cinematography Fund was established on 1 January 2013, pursuant to the Audiovisual Act. The Act defines the purpose...

On 14 October 2015, the Grand Chamber of the Civil and Commercial Division of the Supreme Court concluded that the copyright exception for health facilities, according to § 23 of the Copyright Act, does not apply to patients staying in spa facilities. According to the exception, no remuneration has to be paid for the broadcast of works protected by copyright in healthcare facilities. The collective management society OSA demanded payments totalling CZK 553,935 (approximately EUR 20.500) from the spa facility Léčebné lázně Mariánské lázně, for the unauthorised use of works protected by copyright...

In October 2015, the Law on the Prohibition of Owning, Editing, Publishing and the Usage of Materials, which come from Illegal Communications’ Surveillance (Zakon za zabrana za poseduvanje, obrabotka, objavuvanje i raspolaganje so materijali koi proizleguvaat od nezakonsko sledenje na komunikaciite) was proposed by two Members of Parliament from the ruling majority. The law aims to prevent the media from publishing wiretapped conversations of the most senior politicians, which may reveal their heavy criminal activities. The country is in the middle of the deepest political crisis since its independence...