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Canal Plus, a French pay-TV broadcaster, has a registered broadcasting company in Poland and has invested a considerable amount of capital into the Polish audiovisual industry. HBO is an international pay-TV film channel which belongs to Time Warner Entertainment Company (USA) and is currently not a registered broadcasting company in Poland. As a result, HBO's activities are not governed by Polish law. HBO is transmitting HBO Polska's film programme to Polish cable operators via satellite AMOS1. The programme is transmitted to AMOS1 through a terrestrial space and telecommunications system which...

On 30 June 1997, the Hungarian National Radio and Television Board (NRTB) awarded two national terrestrial licenses to the Hungarian-Swedish MTM-SBS and the Luxembourg-based German-Hungarian-American company, CLT-Ufa's MAGYAR RTL (see IRIS 1997-9: 14). The IRISZ TV proposal, submitted by the First Hungarian Commercial Television Stock Co. (the company behind IRISZ TV), majority-owned by the US based Central European Media Enterprises, lost its bid. On 4 July 1997, IRISZ TV filed a law suit against NRTB asking the Economic Department of the Budapest Court to annul the Board's decision and to instruct...

The Hungarian national radio and television council issued its first two private television licences on 30 June 1997, both on a nationwide basis. In accordance with the conditions of Act I of 1986 on radio and television broadcasting (see IRIS 1996-3: 15 and IRIS 1996-10: 15) and the regulations contained in Act XVI of 1991 on concession, the procedure for attesting approval was finalised by issuing licences to the German-Hungarian-American company MTM-SBS and to a consortium headed by CLT-ufa under the name of MAGYAR RTL. The authorisations to offer programme services are both valid for 10 years...

Hungary's copyright law, which is based on the Copyright Act No. III of 26 April 1969 - last amended by Chapter II of Act No. VII, modifying several regulations on protection of industrial property and copyright of 8 February 1994was again amended on 19 September 1996. The last change in the copyright law principally increased the protection period to 70 years and reorganised the neighbouring rights of performing artists, sound recording manufacturers and radio and television companies, and a government decree has now amended the law on performing rights societies. The Hungarian system for collective...

In IRIS 1996-5: 10 we published an overview of the State of Signatures and Ratifications of all European Conventions and other international treaties that are relevant to the audio-visual sector. In IRIS 1996-7: 5, IRIS 1996-8: 6 (September issue), IRIS 1996-9: 7 (October issue), IRIS 1996-10: 5 and in IRIS Special 1996 we updated this overview. We can now report that in the meantime, Slovakia ratified the European Convention on transfrontier television. Slovakia, which signed this Convention on 11 September 1996, ratified it on 20 January 1997. Consequently, the date of entry into force will be...