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Refine your search| IRIS 2015-5:1/3 [AT] Federal Administrative Court upholds complaints about ORF’s “Wahl 13” and “Skiweltcup” apps | |
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In a decision of 11 February 2015 (case no. W120 2008698-1), the Austrian Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Federal Administrative Court - BVwG) ruled that online services provided by the Austrian public service broadcaster, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), may not be designed specifically for mobile devices, but must be independent of the technology later used to download them. The decision followed a complaint submitted by the Verband Österreichischer Privatsender (Association of Austrian Private Broadcasters - VÖP) to the Austrian regulator KommAustria about the ORF apps dedicated to the 2013 parliamentary... |
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| IRIS 2015-4:1/3 [AT] Broadcasting regulator grants short reporting right | |
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In a decision of 12 February 2015 (case no. KOA 3.800/15-009), KommAustria, the Austrian broadcasting regulator, granted TV broadcaster oe24TV the right to broadcast short reports on the Austrian football league and ordered Sky Österreich, owner of the exclusive rights to the Austrian football league, to make the relevant signals available. KommAustria laid down several conditions for the granting and exercise of the short reporting right, closely based on the provisions of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (2010/13/EU) transposed into Austrian law by the Fernseh-Exklusivrechte-Gesetz... |
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| IRIS 2015-3:1/29 [AT] KommAustria classifies "Visual Radio" as a television program and rejects ORF application for the introduction of a new offer (Public Value Test) | |
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The Austrian Communications Authorities (KommAustria) rejected the application of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation for the introduction of the audiovisual offer "Ö3-Live / Visual" pursuant to § 6b in conjunction with §§ 3, 4e and 4f ORF-G by decision of 18 February 2015 (GZ .: KOA 11.266 / 15-001). By letter of July 29, 2014, the ORF had applied for authorization to change the offer concept for the web radio service oe3.ORF.at by extending the offer by the function "Ö3-Live / Visual". In the existing program the station Ö3 was streamed live and the CD covers of the current music tracks were... |
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| IRIS 2015-3:1/28 [AT] KommAustria ascertains the lack of labeling of sponsorship and an undue prominence of product placement | |
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On 27 February 2015, the Austrian Communications Authority (KommAustria) decided that ImageLine Medienproduktion GmbH, the organizer of the cable television program "INFO TV", violated its duty to label sponsorship. The ImageLine company has also emphasized the product placements too strong (GZ .: KOA 1.965 / 15-008). On 1 December 2014, from 18:00 to 20:00, the weekly broadcast "INFO TV" was broadcasted. Neither at the beginning nor at the end of the program, the operator of the programm displayed a notice of sponsorship of the companies "Gusto", "Tourismusverband Bad Hall / Kremsmünster" and... |
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| IRIS 2015-3:1/4 Court of Justice of the European Union: Ruling on Online Copyright Infringement Jurisdiction | |
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On 22 January 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in Hejduk v. EnergieAgentur (Case C-441/13) on the question of whether an Austrian court may hear an action for online copyright infringement where the material is placed online in another Member State. The case concerned Pez Hejduk, a professional photographer of architecture, who had taken photographs of various buildings by an Austrian architect. A German company, EnergieAgentur, made the photographs available on its German website without Hejduk’s consent and Hejduk brought an action for copyright infringement... |