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A federal working party under the guidance of the Federal Office for Justice has published a report on a number of points of law arising in connection with worldwide data exchange on the Internet, which has developed enormously in recent years. The report provides an overview of matters of criminal law, data protection law and copyright, and makes a number of recommendations to access providers with a view to preventing the illegal misuse of data networks. This supports the efforts of the Internet branch to set up a code of conduct for Internet access providers. The working party does not envisage...

On 25 July 1996, the European Commission published its Green Paper "Living and Working in the Information Society: People First". The Green Paper is based upon the work of two main groups which were established by the Commission in 1995. A High Level Group of Experts began its work in May 1995 and presented its preliminary report "Building the Information Society for us all" in January 1996 ( see IRIS 1996-3: 3). In parallel, the Commission created an Information Society Forum, which is broadly based and consists of 128 members. The Forum's first annual report was adopted in June 1996 ( see elsewhere...

On 11 June 1996, compromise suggestions by the Presidency enabled the Council to reach full political agreement, by qualified majority, on a common position regarding amendment of Directive 89/552/EEC (the "Television without Frontiers" Directive). The common position will be formally adopted when the text has been finalised; it will then be sent to the European Parliament for a second reading under the joint decision procedure. The Belgian, Greek and Irish delegations have indicated that they will abstain in the vote; Sweden will vote against. The common position will incorporate most of the...

The Broadcasting Standards Council, the body established under the 1990 Broadcasting Act to monitor the portrayal of violence, sex and matters related to taste and decency in television, cable, radio and satellite services, has just published its fourth annual monitoring survey. The findings relate to three areas: violence, sexual activity and 'bad language'. The key issue of audience concern remains the depiction of violence. However, the first significant change in the proportion of those registering a concern about this issue is recorded in this annual report (for 1995) - 57% saying that there...

On 14.12.1995 the People's Council of the Slovak Republic adopted legislation on the film industry. The new act covers the production and commercialization of cinema and video films, but not productions purely for television. As well as giving a range of definitions, the act contains certain obligations incumbent on producers of audiovisual works in the Slovak Republic and commercialization companies (registration duty, obligation to comply with provisions for the protection of children and young people), prohibits the commercialisation of violent and pornographic films, and contains provisions...