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The Association for Television On-Demand (ATVOD) is now been formally “designated” as the co-regulator for UK Video on Demand (VOD) services. Formerly, it was an industry association. ATVOD has been restructured, “to ensure independence from the industry’s commercial interests and to make sure that protection of the public is its top priority.” It will have a board comprising five independent members and four industry members, from BSkyB, BT, Virgin Media and Five, to provide a “general industry perspective”. Regulation of these services is a requirement of the EU's Audiovisual Media Services Directive...

The Advertising Standards Authority, the self-regulatory body to which regulation of advertising content is delegated by the UK communications regulator Ofcom, has not upheld 939 complaints about a government advertisement on the effects of climate change. It did not consider the question of whether the advertisement broke the rules prohibiting political advertising, as this is a matter for Ofcom itself, and did uphold in part complaints about associated newspaper advertisements. The television advertisement for the Government’s ‘Act on Co2’ campaign showed a young girl being read a bedtime story...

On 8 January 2008, the French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced his desire to abolish advertising on the public-sector television channels. A year later the Act on audiovisual communication and new-style public-service television was adopted, following on from the recommendations of the “Commission on the new-style public-service television” chaired by Mr Copé, introducing the gradual abolition of advertising on public-service channels between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. (in force since 5 January 2009), pending its total abolition by the end of 2011 (end of analog television) (see IRIS 2009-4:10/14). Things...

On 12 March 2010, the Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA), the German collecting society for authors and music publishers, decided to adopt a new version of its membership agreement relating to the use of musical works for advertising purposes. When music is used for advertising purposes, rights management is to be exercised separately by the member and GEMA. According to the amended version of section 1(k)(1) of the membership agreement the “right to allow third parties to use a musical work [...] for advertising purposes in an individual case...

The Gesamtkonferenz der Landesmedienanstalten (General Conference of Regional Media Authorities) has given practical form to the provisions of the 13th Rundfunkänderungsstaatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement Amending Inter-State Broadcasting Agreements - RÄStV, see IRIS 2010-1/16) on product placements (PPs) in broadcasts by private television stations. The guidelines, which will have to be adopted by the Regional Media Authorities, distinguish between paid and unpaid PPs (production props), which are permitted in certain circumstances. Surreptitious advertising continues to be prohibited. Paid PPs...