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A computer specialist at the University of Birmingham used the computer to which he had access in the course of his employment to store data which permitted him to display indecent pictures of children on the screen and make prints thereof. The question before the court was whether the images so stored constituted `photographs' under Section 1 of the Children Act 1978 and whether the distribution of the images was an offence under the 1959 and 1964 Obscene Publications Act. Generally, the question was: if these Acts were passed at a time that Parliament could not have envisaged the technical capabilities...

The Barclay brothers, publishers of The European, sought to challenge the interpretation of Section 143 of the Broadcasting Act 1990, which refers to the power of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission to adjudicate on complaints alleging infringement of privacy arising out of programmes which had been broadcast. The question was: would it be competent to seek an adjudication in respect of material which had not yet been broadcast? What was the scope, in other words, of the adjudicative power of the BCC? The judge, who commented that in England and Wales there are no general constraints on the...

In IRIS 1996-5: 10 we published an overview of the State of Signatures and Ratifications of, inter alia, the European Convention on cinematographic co-production and the European Convention relating to questions on copyright law and neighbouring rights in the framework of transfrontier broadcasting by satellite. We can hereby report that Luxembourg ratfied the European Convention on cinematographic co-production on 21 June 1996 and that therefore, this Convention entered into force for Luxembourg on 1 October 1996. Furthermore, the United Kingdom signed the European Convention relating to questions...

The Advisory Committee on Film Finance was established by the Secretary of State for the National Heritage under the chairmanship of Sir Peter Middleton in the wake of the 1995 report on the film industry by the National Heritage Select Committee. It has now published its report of its findings on the obstacles which exist in the industry to attract private investment into British film and of its recommendations how these might be overcome. The latter are focused around three types of barriers that were impeding the growth of industry, identified by the Committee. First, structural problems, concerning...

The report The Development of the Information Society: an International Analysis is the result of a pilot study to determine how to measure the UK's progress towards the information society. It was commissioned from Spectrum Strategy Consultants as part of the Department of Trade and Industry's Information Society Initiative (ISI). The consultants analysed the performance of the UK, five other G7 countries (USA, Canada, Japan, France and Germany) and three countries selected because of their pioneering activities within the context of the Information Society (Australia, Sweden and Singapore). According...