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The Nordic Information Center for Media and Communication Research (Nordicom) has set up an international clearinghouse on children and violence on the screen. The Clearinghouse receives financial support from the Government of Sweden and UNESCO. Its objective is to inform researchers, policymakers, media professionals, teachers, voluntary organisations and interested individuals on: - research findings concerning children, young people and media violence; - ongoing research on children and media violence; - children's access to mass media and on their media use; - available training on children...

Two reports have been published in Sweden concerning the freedom of expression and the possible abuse of it. One of the reports proposes to apply the rules on freedom of expression also to the new media. It suggests that this freedom should cover all expressions, more generally referred to as "technical recordings". The other report deals with child pornography and it proposes that such pornography should be considered criminal offence. It is suggested that the Criminal Code should prohibit all production, transfer, licensing or showing of child pornography, as well as buying such material and...

Upon recommendation by the Canadian Information Highway Advisory Council (IHAC), the federal Government of Canada commissioned a study on the liability of owners, operators and users of bulletin boards, Internet and Usenet sites. The study was published in February 1997 and deals with the legal aspects of issues like obscenity, child pornography, hate propaganda, trade-marks infringement, defamation, invasion of privacy, communication of erroneous information, violation of secrecy, unfair competition, copyright infringement, and electronic commerce.

On 10 March 1997, an interdepartmental working group presented a paper to the Chairman of the Lower Chamber (Tweede Kamer) of the Dutch Parliament, with the title: (Niet voor alle leeftijden: audiovisuele media en de bescherming van jeugdigen) " Not for all ages: audio-visual media and the protection of youth ". This paper represents the view of the Dutch Government on the subject of the protection of young people against harmful material in the wide area of audio-visual media. Attention is paid to recent developments being the subject of this policy, in the Netherlands as well as in a European...

The UK National Heritage Secretary (the minister responsible for broadcasting matters) announced on March 5 that she is considering making an order to ban the satellite TV channel `Satisfaction Club'. She had received notification from the Independent Television Commission that it was a pornographic service which the Commission considered unacceptable, and in accordance with the EC Broadcasting Directive has notified the broadcaster, the Italian authorities and the European Commission that the service was considered to have manifestly, seriously and gravely infringed the Directive's provisions...