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The proposal for an Act designed to guarantee public access to information has been approved by the new Cabinet and media representatives. A corresponding bill, drafted in collaboration with opposition party representatives by the new Ministry for Public Information, which was created in early 2001, was submitted to Parliament. The Bill was examined and approved by Parliament in mid-April and will now be debated by the Senate over the next few weeks. The Act on free access to information of public interest is designed to regulate how every citizen should enjoy equal access to such information....

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...

In order to promote discussion on legal aspects relating to cinematographic and other audiovisual works, on 11 April 2001 the European Commission published a working paper following on from its Communication on the principles and guidelines for the Community's audiovisual policy in the digital age (COM (1999) 657 final, 14 December 1999, see IRIS 2001-1: 5 and IRIS 2000-8: 4). In the working paper, the Commission mainly focuses on the growth of the audiovisual sector, in particular cinema, and the development of a competitive European film industry. It presents various thoughts and questions on...

In its Opinion No. 226 of 24 April 2001, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe expressed its support for the latest version of a draft Convention on Cyber-crime. The Draft Convention was prepared by a Committee of Experts, which formally concluded its work with the completion of Draft No. 25 of the Convention in December 2000. The Draft Convention requires States Parties to adopt certain substantive criminal offences, i.e. crimes against the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer data, systems and communications (Articles 2-5); crimes involving the use of a computer...

On 14 March 2001, the largest internet content providers of Hungary have founded their professional organisation, the Magyarországi Tartalomszolgáltatók Egyesülete (Hungarian Content Providers' Association - MTE). The main objective of the MTE is to fulfil the self-regulatory role concerning internet content. At the time of its foundation, the MTE has also approved an Tartalomszolgáltatási Kódex (Internet content code). The code is based on the distinction between edited content, published by the content provider; paid content, that means content of commercial nature such as advertising; and user-generated...