Search results : 1510

Is the film The Fifth Element a victim of its own success? Apparently, as illustrated by a recent ruling by the Regional Court in Paris in a case the producer and director of a film brought against the cell phone company SFR and the advertising agency Publicis on the grounds of infringement of copyright and parasitic use. Luc Besson and the company Gaumont claimed that, in a major advertising campaign for a new service offered by the phone operator, the defendants had presented the actress who starred in the film, Mila Jovovich, in the appearance and costume of the main character in the film, placing...

On 20 April 2004, the media department of the Bundeskanzleramt (Federal Chancellery) tabled a comprehensive Bill amending three Broadcasting Acts. If passed, this would represent the biggest shake-up since the legal framework was reorganised in 2001. For the first time, national private radio will be permitted. In recent years, in order to make radio broadcasting more profitable, shareholding restrictions have been relaxed and channel takeovers facilitated; now, it will be possible to exploit additional synergies by combining licences. This will only apply to existing licences. Private radio stations...

Amendments to the legislation on Slovak Television and Slovak Radio, which had been expected since 1999, were passed by Parliament in December 2003 and came into force on 1 January 2004 (Act on Slovak Radio) and on 1 February 2004 (Act on Slovak Television) respectively. The zákon o Slovenskom rozhlase (Act on Slovak Radio) and the zákon o Slovenskej televízii (Act on Slovak Television) replace the rules of 1991, the Act on Slovak Television No. 254/1991 Zb and Act on Slovak Radio No. 255/1991 Zb, which previously were the legal tools dealing with the transition from state media to public service...

Under Article 1 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (as amended), the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) is authorised to make recommendations to the editors and distributors of audiovisual communications services regarding compliance with the principles set out in the Act. On the basis of this, having observed that a number of television channels were increasingly promoting the calling of surcharged telephone services or telematic services that could not be classified as advertising, particularly in order to take part in games, to vote or to contribute to a programme,...

In its decision of 11 January 2004, the Eidg. Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation (Federal Department for Environment, Transport, Energy and Communication - UVEK) clarified certain issues concerning the boundary between the responsibility of the programme supervisory body and the licensing authority. The UVEK ruled that the Unabhängige Beschwerdeinstanz für Radio und Fernsehen (Independent Broadcasting Complaints Authority UBI) was responsible for examining the compatibility of advertising spots with the ban on political advertising, since this question affected key aspects...