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The BBC, ITC, Radio Authority and S4C have issued a consultation document on the future shape of party political broadcasting. It is part of the first wide-ranging review of the conventions surrounding party political and party elections broadcasts since 1974. The actors involved consider a review neccessary as the whole process of political communication and political broadcasting has been transformed in the last 25 years. Moreover British democracy is undergoing a process of change, with more parties, new electoral arrangements and elections to new bodies. This consultation paper recommends several...

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the House of Commons is currently conducting an inquiry into the future regulation of television and radio in the light of convergence between broadcasting, telecommunications and computer technologies. In launching its inquiry the Select Committee has set out to explore a number of questions, ranging from the nature of technological changes affecting audio-visual communications and broadcasting, to the impact of those technological changes on the structure of communications regulation in the UK. The inquiry does not examine in detail the operation of current...

The UK Home Office fears that entertainment programmes' increasing use of video footage from security cameras is undermining public confidence in closed circuit television and may ban broadcasters from using such material. This follows a report published at the end of February by the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, in which the Committee recommends that the UK Government establish a uniform policy on the control and release of CCTV (closed-circuit television system) derived images from publicly owned surveillance. Legislation would prevent the prurient use of material...

The High Court in London has banned two men from dealing in Internet "domain names" in joint cases brought by Marks and Spencer plc, Ladbrokes plc, J Sainsbury plc, Virgin Enterprises plc, British Telecom plc and Telecom Securicor Cellular Radio Ltd. against One in A Million Ltd. In its judgement delivered on 28 November 1997 the High Court held that registration of domain names for the purpose of resale to owners of the trademarks is an action preparatory to trademark infringement. The two men and their businesses, One in a Million Ltd, Global Media Communications and Junic, registered names with...

The Director General of Fair Trading is obliged, under Section 186 (3) of the Broadcasting Act 1990, to make a report, at the end of each relevant period, to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, informing the Minister whether the BBC has complied with its obligation under Section 186 (1) of the Act to ensure that not less than 25% of the total amount of broadcasting time allocated to qualifying programmes is allocated to a range and diversity of independent productions (where "range" refers to cost of acquisition as well as to type of programming - see Section 186 (2). For the period...