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On 7 March 2012 the Compliance Committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) upheld a complaint made by a former candidate for the office of President of Ireland. The complaint concerned the use of an unverified tweet during a live televised debate just three days prior to polling. The Committee also held that the broadcaster, RTÉ, (the national public service broadcaster), exacerbated the unfairness by including extracts of the debate in a related radio interview with the complainant broadcast the following morning. This related radio broadcast also failed to include any clarification...

On 29 February 2012 the Minister for Jobs, Innovation and Enterprise signed into law the European Union (Copyright and Related Rights) Regulations 2012. The statutory instrument amends s.40 and s.205 of the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 by inserting provisions that permit the owner of the copyright or a related right in a work to apply to the High Court for an injunction against an intermediary whose services are used by a third party to infringe a copyright or related right in respect of that work. The statutory instrument describes an intermediary, against whom an application for an injunction...

On 29 February 2012 the Copyright Review Committee published Copyright and Innovation: A Consultation Paper. The Committee was established in May 2011 to examine the current copyright legislative framework in Ireland and to identify any areas of the legislation that might be deemed to create barriers to innovation (see IRIS 2011-7/27). The aim of the Consultation Paper is to begin the process of identifying possible reforms to Irish copyright law in order to further innovation, without denying protection to those who require copyright law in order to innovate. The Consultation Paper is based on...

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) on 25 January 2012 announced that the funding scheme it had developed to support the archiving of broadcast material has been approved by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. A funding scheme was provided for under s.154(1)(e) of the Broadcasting Act 2009. However, when approval was sought from the European Commission in 2010, the wording of section 154(1)(e) was found to be incompatible with EU state aid rules, as it related only to material produced in Ireland. In order to obtain EU approval and to ensure the non-discriminatory...

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) on 13 September 2011 published an updated BAI Broadcasting Code on Referenda and Election Coverage (Election Code). The updated Election Code sets out rules with which all Irish broadcasters must comply when covering all relevant elections and polls (Referenda; General, Presidential, European and Local elections; Senate elections and By-elections) held in Ireland. The Broadcasting Act 2009 s.42 provides that the BAI shall prepare, and from time to time as occasion requires, revise codes governing standards and practice to be observed by broadcasters....