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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...

On 20 February 1997, the State Duma passed in the first reading (for a Bill to become law, there should be three readings in the Duma, approval by the Upper House, and signing by the President) a Bill on Limitations of Circulation of Products, Services and Performances of Sexual Character in the Russian Federation. The Bill, drafted by the Committee on Culture of the Duma permits, in accordance with Article 242 of the 1997 Criminal Code, the sale and distribution of legal pornography (as opposed to pornographic material which is considered to be illegal ). At the same time, for the first time...

In March 1997, a new Film Act was adopted in Denmark, of which the main features are the following: The State film bodies, including the Danish Film Institute, the National Film Board of Denmark, the Danish Film Museum, the Danish Film Institute Workshop and the National Film Censorship Board are merged into one institution called the Danish Film Institute. The Institute has the same tasks as the separate institutions it replaces. The age limits of film censorship are now lowered from 12 and 16 to 11 and 15. The guiding age limit of 7 is preserved. The guiding age limit means that parents are advised...