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On 24 June 2010, the European Commission issued a set of reasoned opinions to 12 member states (Austria, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, and Slovenia) requesting that they proceed with updating their national broadcasting legislation in order to bring it into compliance with the Audiovisual Media Service (AVMS) Directive. The Directive, which replaced the Television without Frontiers Directive of 1989 (as amended), was adopted in December 1997 with the intention of bringing the EU’s broadcasting rules up to speed with the digital age. The...

On 8 June 2006, a Media Agreement for 2007-2010 was established between the political parties and the Government (see IRIS 2006-8: 13). According to the Agreement, the channels Danmarks Radio (DR) and TV 2 have to fulfill public service obligations. They must broadcast news, information, educational programmes, culture, art and entertainment. They must also broadcast services for blind and deaf persons and programmes for children and young people. In addition, a current dialogue with the population must be stimulated. The accomplishment of these obligations is controlled by the Radio- og tv-nævnet...

The culture ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden (Nordic Council of Ministers) signed a five-year agreement with the Nordic Film & TV Fund on 11 May 2009 in Reykjavik. The aim of the agreement is to strengthen the Nordic region’s competitive position in the global film and television industry. In addition to production itself, the global marketing of Nordic films and talents is to be promoted. The agreement with the Nordic Film & TV Fund will run until the end of 2014 and an annual budget of approx. DKK 70 million will be made available. The agreement involves a total of 17...

Following a complaint from commercial Danish broadcasting operators, the EC Commission in 2003 decided to launch a State aid probe into the possible overcompensation of the Danish Public Service Broadcaster TV2 by the Danish State (see IRIS 2003-2: 3). In 2004, the Commission decided that part of the aid granted by Denmark to TV2 between 1995 and 2002 in the form of license fee resources and other measures, namely DKK 628.2 million (approx. EUR 84 million), constituted overcompensation of TV2’s net costs for public service activities (re: Decision 2006/217/EC of 19 May 2004 on measures implemented...

A pending Danish court case regarding the liability of Internet service providers (ISPs) for illegal content on the Internet has attracted substantial attention in the media, both on a Danish and an international level. The case concerns the Swedish website “The Pirate Bay”, a peer-to-peer service which enables users, provided they have downloaded a specific software application, to generate links to music, films etc. on other websites on the Internet. The Danish branch of the international record company industry IFPI filed for an injunction against the Danish ISP DMT2. IFPI argued that Pirate...