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The paper details the main points to be considered by the court. It describes the content of the rules and the agreements, and it sets out the Office of Fair Trading's overall position on the matter. The case, currently being heard in the Restrictive Practices Court, involves the Office of Fair Trading, the Premier League, BSkyB, and the BBC. It started on January 12, and will go on till some time during April. The judgement is expected during June. The issue concerns the validity of Football Associations' Premier League rules and restrictions, contained in agreements entered into between the League...

The Broadcasting Standards Commission has included a statement in its most recent Bulletin, arising from its consideration of complaints made against several programmes "within Channel 5's late night erotic strands". The Commission, relying on recently published evidence, notes the public's increasing acceptance and tolerance of "sex on television" only if it is "justified within a dramatic or informative context". The point of the programmes complained of was "clearly erotic". The Commission stated that "the inclusion, for its own sake, of erotic material in a free to air television service is...

The English High Court has clarified the role of the Independent Television Commission which regulates private broadcasting in the UK. Apart from accepting the legitimacy of economic regulation by the Commission, the court indicated that it will be reluctant in future to overturn decisions of substance made by it. The facts concerned the distribution of programmes by the satellite service BSkyB and cable operators. Channels were sold in packages and premium channels with a high consumer appeal were only available to subscribers who also took a number of basic channels. The satellite and cable companies...

The Broadcasting Standards Commission has included a statement in its most recent Bulletin, arising from its consideration of complaints made against several programmes "within Channel 5's late night erotic strands". The Commission, relying on recently published evidence, notes the public's increasing acceptance and tolerance of "sex on television" only if it is "justified within a dramatic or informative context". The point of the programmes complained of was "clearly erotic". The Commission stated that "the inclusion, for its own sake, of erotic material in a free to air television service is...

Although the agreement containing the undertakings was given on behalf of Sport Newspapers Ltd (as publishers of the "Daily Sport" and "Sunday Sport"), the agreement is of general interest also to the audio-visual community. It was made under The Control of Misleading Advertisements Regulations, 1988; the Regulations transpose the EC Directive on Misleading Advertising into UK law and came into force on 20 June 1988. The Director-General of the OFT is empowered to use the regulation to strengthen and complement existing rules concerning advertising. However, a breach of the agreement can result...