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The US Supreme Court recently upheld the FCC’s modified broadcast indecency policy, which prohibits the on-air use of indecent “fleeting expletives’—that is, sudden, usually surprised outbursts of one or two indecent words. The Commission’s policy went back to FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U.S. 726 (1978), which emphasized the harm of the “repetitive occurrence” of indecent language - in that case, George Carlin’s famous 12-minute “Seven Dirty Words” monologue. The changes also were challenged under the free speech clause of the Constitution, but the Court refused to consider these arguments...

On 31 March 2009 the Slovenian mobile telephone operators signed Samoregulacijski kodeks ravnanja operaterjev mobilnih elektronskih komunikacijskih storitev o varnejši rabi mobilnih telefonov s strani otrok in mladoletnih do 18. leta (self-regulatory ethical rules for handling the mobile electronic communication services in regard to the safer use by minors below the age of 18). The self-regulatory document was articulated with reference to the “European Framework for Safer Mobile Use by Younger Teenagers and Children” (the self-regulatory guidelines of the GSM Europe, an interest group of the...

In 2008 the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia established a Working Group for the Transposition of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive into Croatian Media Legislation. The Working Group has concluded a series of meetings and their proposal for a draft law is now in public discussion. The proposed Draft Law on Electronic Media of 29 April 2009 regulates in particular: - the specific terms used in the Law, - the general principles of the activities and the provision of audio and audiovisual media services, - the promotion and protection of the interests of the Republic of Croatia, -...

The State chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate, which currently chairs the Broadcasting Commission of the Länder , has published a draft 13th Rundfunkänderungsstaatsvertrag (amendment to the Inter-State Broadcasting Agreement - RÄStV). One of the issues covered by the amendment is product placement, which is to be defined in Art. 2(2)(11) of the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (Inter-State Broadcasting Agreement - RStV). The ban on surreptitious advertising, product and thematic placement and related practices will be incorporated in the newly added Art. 7(7)(1) RStV (instead of Art. 7(6)(1), where it is...

On 6 May 2009, the European Parliament voted on the informal political agreement reached with the Commission and the Council in the discussions following last autumn’s first reading of the Telecoms Package. The package involves a revision of the EU’s electronic communications regulatory framework, appertaining to five existing Directives and as encapsulated in three separate legislative proposals and corresponding Parliament reports (see IRIS 2008-10: 4). The EP approved the new package in its entirety, save for one modification: it reinstated amendment 138 of the Trautmann report, a controversial...