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The Minister is of the view that it would be better for the further development of the portalsite and accompanying services to take place independently of the Government. Arguments for this include the Minister's reservations about being in a position whereby he would be able to influence the content of education by determining the content of the portalsite. Continued responsibility for Kennisnet could leave him in such a position. The Minister published a handvest (charter) entitled Kennisnet which, inter alia, allows limited-scale advertising on Kennisnet. He believes that the participation...

From 17 May, new Independent Television Commission (ITC) regulations concerning airtime sales arrangements and certain types of share deals are in force. The aims of the revision are to "provide a more streamlined approach to regulation in this sector," to bring "the ITC's rules into line with the Competition Commission's decision [...] regarding further consolidation of ITV ownership" and to "help establish a more competitive market". Some of the pre-existing rules have been relaxed or amended and there are several new prohibitions, e.g. on joint selling by Granada and Carlton (ITC licensees)...

A year ago, as required by Article 26 of the Directive itself, the Commission began preparing for a review of the "Television Without Frontiers" Directive 89/552/EEC as amended by Directive 97/36/EC, by publishing a call for tender for various studies relating to different parts of the text. Reports on the quota system (Art. 4-6, see infra) and on the impact of TV advertising and teleshopping on minors were also commissioned. According to the Education and Culture Commissioner, the review of the Directive will focus particularly on a liberalisation of the provisions on advertising, sponsorship...

Having previously decided (albeit with no legal basis) that, under copyright law, someone who sets up a hyperlink actually reproduces the "linked-in" contents (see IRIS 2000-7: 9), the Oberster Gerichtshof (Supreme Court - OGH) recently dealt expressly with the question of liability for hyperlinks from a competition law point of view for the very first time. The facts of the case are as follows: the first plaintiff is the publisher of the Kurier daily newspaper and the second plaintiff is its subsidiary, which deals with advertising. The defendant, an employment agent working in the field of staff...

During the spring and summer of 2000 the Swedish national terrestrial channel TV4 broadcast more than ten programmes from the very popular children's series "Pokémon". When an episode was finished - and the message "to be continued" had been shown - the viewers were requested to keep their seats: "Don't leave yet. Now follows the Pokémon-rap". In this rap a selection of characters from the series are presented and the message "Gotta catch' em all" is repeated several times. When the rap is finished the programme ends with a billboard and the "Pokémon song". The Swedish Broadcasting Commission...