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The Spanish Parliament has recently approved a new Act on National Public Radio and TV (see IRIS 2005-9: 10). This approval brings to finality a procedure that started in April 2004, when the recently elected Government created a Council for the Reform of State-owned Media, which delivered its final report in February 2005. This new Act, which abrogates the Statute of Radio and Television (Act 4/1980), seeks to update the basic principles which apply to public radio and television. The Act defines the role of the national public broadcaster: - It shall produce and broadcast several radio and TV...

On 10 May 2006, the Spanish Competition Court sanctioned 5 major film distributors. Walt Disney Company Iberia (Buenavista International Spain), Sony Pictures, Hispano Foxfilm, United International Pictures and Warner Sogefilms were fined EUR 2.4 million each. The Spanish Competition Court also imposed a EUR 900,000 fine on the Spanish Federation of Film Distributors. The Spanish Competition Service opened an investigation into alleged price-fixing and the abuse of a dominant position by these film distributors and also probed the actions of the Spanish Federation of Film Distributors, following...

On 29 December 2005, the Catalan Parliament approved the Act on Audiovisual Communication in Catalonia (Act 22/2005). This legal text establishes Catalonia's own audiovisual system, organizedat two levels: a regional level (including public sector and commercial broadcasters), and a local level, organized in counties. The Act aims to reach a politically independent and financially sound public sector ensuring public service, and a competitive, diverse and plural private sector. The Act, which unifies and harmonizes the existing legal provisions relating to audio-visual law in Catalonia, has 140...

The Spanish Intersectoral Commission against offences of intellectual property rights, which was called into life last October by Royal Decree1228/2005 (see IRIS 2005-10: 12),was definitively set upon 23 November. The ceremony marking its constitution took place at the National Library and was presided by the Spanish Minister of Culture. The creation of this Commission is one of the measures announced by the Spanish Government's Integral Plan against Piracy (see IRIS 2005-6: 12), and its objective, among others, is theoperational coordination between the Public Administrations and the different...

On 13 October 2005 the Royal Decree 1228/2005 setting up the Intersectorial Commission on the infringement of Intellectual Property Rights entered into force. The creation of this Commission is one of the measures included in the Integral Plan of the Spanish Government against Piracy, which was adopted on 26 April 2005 (see IRIS 2005-6: 12). The Commission's main objective is to coordinate operations among the public administration, organisations defending Intellectual Property Rights and organisations defending social interests, who together will carry out studies and activities aimed at implementing...