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A Danish pop band “Dodo & the Dodos” won a case concerning a conflict over the right for its record label to distribute music over the Internet without a clear agreement on such distribution. Dodo brought a case against the record label Sony BMG before the Court of First instance because the label had informed music bands of its intention to offer digital downloads to online music stores without a special agreement on the matter with the artists. Before the Court, Dodo alleged that the existing contract did not admit distribution over the Internet; an agreement with every single band specifically...

In order to implement the Agreement on media policy reached by the governing political parties on 6 June 2006 (see IRIS 2006-8: 13), the Minister of Culture and the Danmarks Radio (DR) broadcaster signed, in January of this year, a Public Service Contract for the period of 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2010. Amendments to the lov om radio- og fjernsynsvirksomhed (Act on Radio and Television Activities) introduced by the Agreement have been adopted by the Amendment Act no. 1569 of 20 December 2006. The key provisions of the Public Service Contract hold that DR must offer a broad selection of public...

On 15 March 2006, the Director of Public Prosecutions (“the Director”) in Denmark decided there was no basis for instituting criminal proceedings against the newspaper Jyllands Posten for publishing the article “The Face of Muhammad”, which included 12 drawings of the Prophet Muhammad. In doing so, the Director upheld the decision made by the Regional Public Prosecutor on 6 January 2006. The article in Jyllands-Posten was published on 30 September 2005 and was advertised on the front page of the newspaper with a short introduction and one of the twelve drawings. The article was entitled "The Face...

On 6 June 2006, the Government reached an agreement on media policy with the political parties: Socialdemokratiet (the Social Democratic Party), Dansk Folkeparti (The Danish Popular Party), Det Radikale Venstre (The Social Liberal Party) and Socialistisk Folkeparti (The Socialist Popular Party). Radio and TV legislation shall be amended correspondingly during the 2006/2007 parliamentary session. The agreement shall be in force for the period from 6 June 2006 to 31 December 2010. The main features of the agreement are the following: - The Danmarks Radio (DR) channel must offer public service programmes...

The European Commission recently approved under EC Treaty state aid rules four aid schemes meant to support film making in Poland and Ireland, music recordings by new talent in France and newspaper distribution in Denmark. All four schemes were found to entail no undue distortion of competition within the Single Market. The Danish plans sought to give publishers of certain newspaper-like publications direct grants totalling EUR 1.3 million. The aid will enable publishers to freely choose their distributors in their efforts to distribute these publications. In deciding to favour this scheme, the...