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In June 2011, the Finnish Parliament adopted Kuvaohjelmalaki 710/2011 (Act on audiovisual programmes) and Laki Mediakasvatus- ja kuvaohjelmakeskuksesta 711/2011 (Act on the Finnish Centre for Media Education and Audiovisual Media). The Acts entered into force on 1 January 2012. The Act on audiovisual programmes restricts the provision of audiovisual programmes in order to protect children. The Act applies to audiovisual programme provision and its supervision in Finland, if the programmes are provided by television operations or by on-demand services subject to the Act on Television and Radio Operations...

On 20 June 2012, the Act amending Act on Yleisradio Oy and Act on the State Television and Radio Fund was adopted by the Finnish Parliament. Yleisradio Oy (YLE) is Finland's national public service broadcasting company. YLE operates four national television channels and six radio channels and services complemented by 25 regional radio programmes. YLE is 99.9 % state-owned and is supervised by a Supervisory Board appointed by the Parliament. It operates under the Act on Yleisradio Oy. Until the end of 2012, its activities are financed by the television license revenue. The annual television license...

On 3 May 2012 the Nordic Consumer Ombudsmen presented a Joint Position regarding marketing in social media. These kinds of guidelines are not legally binding, but are generally well regarded and relied upon by Swedish courts when determining good market practices. In the Joint Position, the Nordic Consumer Ombudsmen confirmed that Marknadsföringslagen (the Swedish Marketing Practices Act - MPA) is technology neutral and applies in full to social media. The Joint Position deals among other things with issues such as (i) unsolicited commercial messages, especially relating to Facebook as this was...

On 25 April 2012, a proposal of the committee on press crimes, unwanted communication and stalking was officially published. The committee's task was to assess the need to reform the "press crimes" legislation taking into consideration the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. In addition, the committee had to assess if there was a need for legislation prohibiting the communication to a target which does not want to receive, and consider if there was a need to criminalise the so called stalking. The committee suggests adding a new criminal provision (Sec. 1 a §) on unwanted communication...

The European Court of Human Rights has delivered a decision regarding the criminalization of the possession, reproduction and public display of child pornography, freely downloaded from the Internet, and its compatibility with freedom of (artistic) expression. The issue before the European Court was whether the conviction of an artist for including child pornography in a work exhibited at an art exhibition violated the right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights. Ms. Ulla Annikki Karttunen is a Finnish artist who exhibited her work “the Virgin-Whore...