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On 30 June 1999 the Hungarian Constitutional Court (Court) provided landmark interpretations of certain provisions of Article 55 of the Act I of 1996 on Radio and Television Broadcasting (Media Act). (See the report on the claims in February IRIS 1999-3: 8). The challenged sections of the Media Act govern election procedure for the board of trustees (board) and the status of the presidium of trustees (presidium) of national public service broadcasting companies. According to the Media Act, the board is composed of members elected by Parliament and members delegated by the organizations defined...

On 1 September 1999, a new Act on Copyright entered into force in Hungary. The act No. LXXVI of 1999 replaces the former Copyright Act enacted in 1969. The adoption of the new act was preceded by a long preparatory process, which began in 1994. The purpose of the new act is to adapt the copyright law so as to give proper responses to the challenges emerging from the rapid technological development even seen on the long term. In the course of the elaboration of the new copyright act, one of the main aims was to reach the highest possible degree of harmonisation with the relevant legal instruments...

1. Bladet Tromso and Stensaas v. Norway: defamatory allegations, the publication of a secret document and article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights In 1992, the newspaper company Bladet Tromso and its editor, Pal Stensaas, were convicted by a Norway District Court for defamation. The newspaper had published several articles on seal hunting as well as an official - but secret - report that referred to a series of violations of the seal-hunting regulations (the Lindberg report). The article and the report more specifically made allegations against five crew members...

On 30 June 1997, the Hungarian National Television and Radio Commission (NRTC) awarded two national terrestrial licenses to MTM-SBS and CLT-Ufa's MAGYAR RTL (see IRIS 1998-4:4). The IRISZ TV proposal, submitted by the First Hungarian Commercial Television Stock Company, the enterprise behind IRISZ TV, lost bidders. On 4 July 1997, IRISZ TV filed a law suit against NRTC asking the Economic Department of the Metropolitan Court to annul the Commission's decision and to instruct the Commission to duly complete the selection process for the television concession proposals. IRISZ TV based it's petition...

On 11 October 1998 the Court of Appeal in Budapest (Metropolitan Court) delivered a decision in a dispute between journalists about the truthfulness of the TV reporting by two of them which had been publicly called into question by two of their journalist colleagues (joined by two other defendants). One of the most popular Hungarian weekly TV programs on domestic politics is called "Week" and is broadcast in national public service TV1. On 20 June 1993 a report was broadcast by the plaintiffs on the 23 October 1992's national celebration of the anniversary of Hungary's fight for independence against...