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A “Broadcasting Code of Conduct” consisting of 12 Articles, prepared by the Radyo ve Televizyon Ust Kurulu (Turkish Radio Television Supreme Council - RTÜK) and the Turkish Television Broadcasters Association, was signed on 3 July 2007 by Turkish television broadcasting companies including: TRT, Samanyolu TV, ATV, Kanal D, Show TV, NTV, CNN Türk, Kanal 7, Kanal A, Kral TV, Fox, Cine 5, TV8, CNBC-E, Flash TV, Kanal 1, Digitürk, Powertürk, Skytürk, and Habertürk. The main idea of this Code of Conduct is to promote a clean and safe broadcasting environment...

On 21 June 2007, the Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament) adopted amendments to the Alkoholio kontrolës ástatymas (Act on Alcohol Control). The amended Act establishes stricter requirements in regard to the advertising of alcohol. The aim of the new provisions is to reduce the spread of alcohol usage in the society, particularly among young people. Under the new provisions of the Act, the advertisement of alcohol in television is prohibited from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. This new provision shall enter into force on 1 January 2008. According to the present Law on Alcohol Control, the advertisement of alcohol...

Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, has fined the BBC GBP 50,000 for the unfair conduct of a premium rate telephone competition. It is the first time that the BBC has been fined. A report commissioned by Ofcom has also found that there are systematic failures in compliance in the running of such competitions by a large number of broadcasters; the costs to competitors of such unfair treatment may run into millions of pounds. The BBC case concerned a telephone competition run on the BBC children’s programme “Blue Peter”. It was unusual in two ways; firstly because the proceeds went, not to the...

On 4 May 2007, the Turkish Parliament adopted the Turkish Code 5651, which regulates Internet contents and stipulates crimes committed via the Internet (see IRIS 2007-5: 19). The first part of the Code regulates criminal law matters, whereas the second part concerns civil law aspects. According to the Code, access to a website shall be banned, if there is sufficient suspicion that certain crimes are being committed via that Internet website. Those crimes are: (i) the encouraging of people to commit suicide, (ii) the sexual abuse of children, (iii) the facilitation of the abuse of drugs, (iv) the...

“Manhunt 2”, made by Rockstar Games for PS2 and Nintendo Wii consoles, cannot be legally supplied for the time being within the UK. This follows the decision by the British Board of Film Classification - BBFC not to give it a classification. In 2003,“Manhunt 1” was classified “18”, i.e., no-one under 18 may rent or buy it. The BBFC stated that the principal reasons underlying its decision included: - The unrelenting focus on stalking and brutal slaying;- The sustained and cumulative casual sadism in the way in which killings are committed; and - its unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone....