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The Independent Television Commission (ITC), the UK regulator of private broadcasting, has fined a cable company £10,000 for breaches of its Rules on the Amount and Scheduling of Advertising in relation to local advertising. The amount of the fine is relatively small compared to some other recent fines levied by the Commission (£2,000,000 in one other recent case) but it does show the importance of financial penalties even in the case of relatively minor breaches. The company, Telewest, had been given a formal warning by the ITC in March 1998 after three incidents when complaints were upheld about...

The Independent Television Commission (ITC) suspended on 22 March 1999 for a period of three weeks the satellite television service licence of Med Broadcasting Ltd (Med TV). At the end of that period, and having regard to the representations made by Med TV, the ITC must decide whether or not to revoke Med TV's licence. The action was taken under powers given to the ITC in Section 89 of the 1996 Broadcasting Act which oblige the Commission to serve a notice of suspension if a licence holder has included in its service one or more programmes containing material likely to encourage or incite crime...

By the provisions of the Broadcasting Act 1990, Part 4, Schedule 2 (as amended), The Independent Television Commission has a duty to consider whether the provision of a digital programme service could be expected to operate against the public interest, in circumstances where the licensee is, or is connected with, the owner of a relevant local newspaper. The Commission proceeds by way of a public consultation, and then makes its decision. The responses to the consultation are available for the public to view, unless a respondee requests confidentiality. Any decision should take account of several...

The Independent Television Commission (ITC), the UK regulatory body for private sector broadcasting, has issued guidelines on the digital points system setting out the permitted provision of digital programme services. They apply only to digital terrestrial television and do not apply to "qualifying services", which are services provided by existing analogue broadcasters and are automatically entitled to reserved capacity in digital terrestrial multiplexes. The Broadcasting Act 1996 amended the Broadcasting Act 1990 to set new restrictions on concentration of services. The system is that no one...

The case concerned the publication in the "Sun" newspaper of still photographs (of the late Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed) from film taken by a video security camera. The court held that the use made of the stills by the paper fell within the scope of "reporting current events", in relation to an event which was in the public interest. It further commented that there is a general public interest defence to copyright infringement in principle. However, it is not of wide scope (something like "just cause or excuse") and a genuine public interest in the information disseminated has to be demonstrated....