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On 23 February 1972, Germany and Yugoslavia signed a Co-Production Agreement, which entered into force on 24 February 1972, replacing the precedent Agreement of 19 July 1957. On 26 October 1992 Germany has agreed with Croatia, as a successor state, to keep on applying the agreement and to maintain it in force. The Agreement applies to full-length films. Multilateral co-productions with producers from third countries being linked to Germany or Croatia by a Co-Production Agreement are possible. Financial contribution of a co-producer shall generally be at least 30% (in the case of multilateral co-productions,...

A feature that mentioned the business activities of a local businessman from Split was broadcast on a talk show on the main television station in Croatia (Croatian Television) in March 2002. The businessman felt defamed by this feature, and filed a suit at the Municipal Court in Split against a journalist and the editor of the show. The court accepted the claim and passed in 2004 a suspended sentence of two months with a probation period of one year. It was decided that the journalist had to pay all legal fees, while the editor of the TV show was acquitted. The court established that the journalist...

The Ministry of Culture has prepared a draft law to amend the Law on Media. The amendments concern inter alia the removal of a provision restricting media ownership concentration. Besides this provision, the draft law contains mostly the same regulations as the present Law on the Media. The latter was adopted by the Parliament in October 2003. In early 2004, the Constitutional Court abolished the Law because it was not passed by the required majority vote of all delegates. Despite that decision, the Media Law has nevertheless been applied as from 1 May 2004 on, as the Parliament had not passed...

The Zakon o autorskom pravu i srodnim pravima (Act on Copyrights and Related Rights) came into force in October 2003. It regulates copyrights (author’s rights over their work in literature, science and art field), related rights (rights of artists over their performances, rights of phonogram producers over their phonograms, rights of film producers over their films, rights of broadcasting organisations for point-to-multipoint communication on their broadcasting, rights of publishers over their editions, rights of database producers over their database), the assertion (individually and collectively)...

In its session held on 15 July 2003 the Croatian Parliament passed the Law on Electronic Media, which defines the position of legal entities and physical persons that perform the activities of production and publishing of programs and program services through electronic media, and the terms for performing such activities. Before this Law was passed several other laws already regulated the field of electronic media ­ the special law defines the work and activities of Croatian Radio-television, while provisions of the Law on Telecommunications and Law on Public Announcements define the activities...