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The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has delivered a judgment concerning restrictions on literature about same-sex relationships written specifically for children. The ECtHR found that measures taken against a children’s book of fairy tales had intended to limit children’s access to information depicting same-sex relationships as essentially equivalent to different-sex relationships. According to the ECtHR, the fairy tales had not contained sexually explicit content, nor had they promoted same-sex families over others. On the contrary, the fairy tales...

On 13 and 15 July 2022, alleging that minors could access the pornographic websites Pornhub, Tukif, Xhamster, Xnxx and Xvideos simply by stating that they were aged 18 or over, in violation of Article 227-24 of the Penal Code, the president of ARCOM (the French audiovisual and digital communications regulator) summoned numerous Internet access providers to appear before the president of the Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris (Paris judicial court) on the basis of Article 23 of Law no. 2020-936 of 30 July 2020 and asked the court to order them to block access to the sites concerned. During the proceedings,...

The Statute of Slovakia “On Media Services and on Adoption of Amendments to Certain Statutes” (the Statute on Media Services) was adopted by the National Council (Parliament) of the Slovak Republic on 22 June 2022, and enters into force on 1 August 2022, and in part – on 1 January 2023 and on 1 January 2027. The Statute contains 244 Articles and regulates the activities of broadcasters, providers of audiovisual media services, operators of rebroadcasting, multiplex providers and video hosting providers, if they are registered, headquartered or reside in Slovakia. Suppliers...

Ofcom has determined that Glastonbury Festival's onsite radio station Worthy FM 87.7 (Worthy FM) breached Rules 1.14, 1.16 and 2.3 of the Broadcasting Code by playing records that contained offensive language, at a time likely to be heard by children, even if relatively low in numbers. Worthy FM is a radio station that plays music during the duration of the Glastonbury music festival. The main audience are festival goers but the programming is transmitted in the county of Somerset where Glastonbury is located. Worthy FM has a Restricted Service Licence (RSL) granted by Ofcom and the licensee...

In December 2022, Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, published research into what viewers think and how they feel about commercial references in and around TV programmes. This is the first time in over 15 years that the regulator has carried out extensive research in this area. The findings are intended to inform its current guidance to the rules on content regulation. What is a commercial reference? All broadcast TV content comprises programming and advertising. In addition to income from adverts in commercial breaks, broadcasters generate revenue from references to products,...