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On 29 May 2000, the Council of the European Union released its Decision to Combat Child Pornography on the Internet. The Decision substantially endorses the draft Decision presented by Austria on 16 December 1999 (see IRIS 2000-1: 5), while most of the amendments introduced by the European Parliament (see IRIS 2000-5: 3) have been rejected. For instance, the form of a Council Framework Decision proposed by the Parliament has not been accepted, neither has the definition of the actual offence of child pornography. Also, the Decision does not suggest that Member States take the necessary measures...

A draft of amendments to the Broadcasting Act 1992 adopted on 31 March 2000 by the Parliament provides for harmonization of Polish audiovisual law with European Union standards. In accordance with the provisions contained in the Directive on "Television Without Frontiers" some new legal definitions were added, such as the definition of sponsorship, teleshopping and surreptitious advertising (the latter is banned). Advertising issues were regulated as a whole in the law; several restrictions on advertising were introduced, some of them even stricter than those stipulated by the "Television Without...

In December 1999, based on Government Resolution No. 2198 (IX.9.), the Hungarian government prepared modification proposals to Act I on Radio and Television ("Media Act"). The proposed changes consist of 20 articles. The main purpose of the amendments is to harmonise the Media Act with the Council Directive 89/552 EEC as amended by Council Directive 97/36 EC ("Directive") and the European Convention on Transfrontier Television of the Council of Europe ("Convention"). According to the proposal, programme distribution will be considered as broadcasting and will be regulated in a separate chapter....

As the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (French regulatory body - CSA) agreed at the end of last year to the possibility of renewing the authorisation issued to the channel CANAL+ (an encrypted pay-television service broadcast terrestrially) for a further five years, the channel and the CSA had to negotiate a new agreement setting out the rules applicable to the channel. This was finalised on 29 May. The agreement currently in force has been amended on several points, particularly as regards news ethics and the protection of children and young people. In view of the growing proportion of the...

The Internet host Altern.org has again been sanctioned by the courts, this time - following the Estelle Hallyday case (see IRIS 1999-3: 3), in which it was found that access providers were liable for the circulation of unlawful content - for counterfeiting a brand-name and infringement of copyright. In the present case, there was a site devoted to sadomasochism at Altern.org under the domain name of calimero.org. The site's home-page contained the heading la page francophone de Caliméro ("Caliméro's page in French") and in the centre of the screen an exact reproduction of the character in the Caliméro...