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The report The Development of the Information Society: an International Analysis is the result of a pilot study to determine how to measure the UK's progress towards the information society. It was commissioned from Spectrum Strategy Consultants as part of the Department of Trade and Industry's Information Society Initiative (ISI). The consultants analysed the performance of the UK, five other G7 countries (USA, Canada, Japan, France and Germany) and three countries selected because of their pioneering activities within the context of the Information Society (Australia, Sweden and Singapore). According...

On 29.07.1996 the Minister Presidents of the Federal States (the Länder) passed the Third Agreement between the Federal States amending Agreements between the Federal States on broadcasting; this will come into force on 01.01.1997. Important features in the new regulations include provisions to ensure diversity of opinion in private broadcasting, and extended broadcasting content for satellite channels in public service broadcasting. §26 of the Agreement on Broadcasting ( Rundfunkstaatsvertrag - RfStV) regulates the viewer market share model for private television operators; this replaces the...

On 11 July 1996, the Saarland Broadcasting Authority (LAR), Deutsche Telekom and the Saarland Prime Minister's Office concluded an outline agreement on the investigation and testing of Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) as part of the Saarland's multimedia project. In addition to using digital technology for broadcasting, the project will centre on testing and introducing data broadcasting and other additional services (radio-related and other data services), which will be made available by the participating broadcasters and other providers. Possibilities of co-ordinating blocks and exchanging programmes...

As already reported in IRIS 1996-6: 5, the German Federal Government is preparing a multimedia Act to regulate information and communication services. It has now produced a ministry draft of an Information and Communication Services Act ( Informations- und Kommunikationsdienste-Gesetz - IuKDG) (28.06.96). Within the Federation's powers in the matter of economic and telecommunications policy, the Act sets out to establish a regulatory instrument which takes the form of a Statute (als Artikelgesetz konzipiertes Regelungswerk) uniform, clear and reliable framework regulations for the multimedia field....

In IRIS 1996-5: 7-10 we published an overview of the state of Signatures and Ratifications of European Conventions and other international treaties that are relevant to the audiovisual sector. The listing of when States became Party to the Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite (printed on page 8) is, however, not correct. Accidentily it reproduces the dates on which States became Party to the Berne Convention for the protection of copyright of literary and artistic works (as printed on page 7). The correct date on which States became Party...