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In October 1999, an international forum was held in Madrid on the issue of protection for audiovisual performances. The Forum was organised by Artistas Intérpretes Sociedad de Gestión (AISGE), a Spanish intellectual property rights management association, in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture. Since December 1996, WIPO has been making efforts to bring about an international consensus regarding the protection of artistic performances fixed on audiovisual media. This work is currently being carried out by the WIPO...

The Parliament of Galicia (one of the seventeen Spanish Autonomous Communities) has recently approved an Audiovisual Law. This Law is mainly concerned with the promotion of the Galician film industry and the Galician language in audio-visual works. The Law also establishes a series of principles that will regulate those activities related to the audio-visual sector, and it provides, inter alia, that the Galician authorities may provide ratings for films, or approve regulations regarding audio-visual content broadcast by regional and local operators. In addition, these authorities will control the...

The most important legal provision in Spanish Broadcasting Law as far as content regulation is concerned is Law 25/1994, on the implementation of the "Television Without Frontiers" Directive. The Law 25/1994 was amended in June 1999 by Law 22/1999, which incorporated into Spanish Law the new "Television Without Frontiers" Directive (EC Directive 97/36/EC). Now, Spanish Law 25/1994 (as amended by Law 22/1999; see IRIS 1999-7: 10) has been developed by a Regulation approved by the Government. This Regulation, which only applies to national broadcasters, deals with several matters: - The right of...

The Spanish Government has approved a Decree-Law regulating electronic signatures. This legal provision is based on the common position adopted by the Council of the European Union with a view to adopting a Directive on a Community framework for electronic signatures. The purpose of the Spanish Decree-Law is to regulate the use of electronic signatures, their legal recognition and the provision of certification-services. The provisions of this Decree-Law apply to service providers established in Spain. The Decree Law differentiates between "electronic signatures" (meaning data in electronic form...

The Consejo para las Emisiones y Retransmisiones Deportivas (Plenary Meeting of the Committee for the Broadcasting of Sport Events) has published the Code of Listed Sports Events for the season 1999/2000. The sports affected are football, cycling, basketball, handball, motorcycle racing and tennis. The Code indicates which events in each of these sports must be broadcast on free-to-air TV (provided a free-to-air broadcaster is interested in doing so). In addition, it ought to be noted that art. 5 of the Law 21/1997 states that one match from every league or cup competition game day, for those sports...