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The Minister for Culture had appealed to the Conseil d'Etat to overturn the decision delivered by the Administrative Court of Appeal on 8 December 2015 which, in response to an application from a traditionalist Roman Catholic association, cancelled the classification licence that included a ban on the film being shown to anyone under 12 years old and required the warning “Contains numerous realistic sex scenes likely to be disturbing to young audiences”. The warning and the ban had been issued by the French Classification Board in July 2013 for the film ‘La vie d'Adèle: Chapitres 1 et 2’ (English...

The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on 11 July 2016 that it had reached a settlement with Warner Brothers Entertainment (“Warner Brothers”) to resolve allegations that it deceived consumers during a marketing campaign for a video game. The FTC’s complaint stems from an online marketing campaign that Warner Brothers undertook in 2014 to generate publicity within the gaming community for the new release of Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, a fantasy role-playing game. Warner Brothers paid “influencers” tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars and told them how to promote the...

On 19 July 2016, the Ministry of Economy and Finance (Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze) issued a decree to identify the “specialised media” to which the general prohibition of gaming advertising on television and radio broadcasts between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. does not apply. The Decree has been published in the Official Journal on 8 August 2016. Restrictions on gaming advertising were introduced by Legislative Decree no. 158 of 13 September 2012 (“Decreto Balduzzi”). In addition, Section 1, paragraph 939 of Law no. 208 of 28 December 2015 sets forth the prohibition on “generalist radio and...

At the end of February 2016, the Chair of the Commission for the Classification of Cinematographic Works, submitted to the Minister for Culture a report on the classification of cinematographic works with regard to minors between 16 and 18 years of age. The report follows on from a number of controversies connected with the courts’ suspensions of approval certificates for films including scenes of extreme violence or non-simulated sex. The public authorities are indeed currently reconsidering “the automatic nature of banning showing [such content] to minors, which is the result of current law as...

The Croatian regulatory authority, the Agency for Electronic Media (AEM), and UNICEF, in cooperation with the Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Faculty of Political Science, the Institute of Lexicography, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC), and the Croatian Film Association (amateur film and film schools) have launched an online portal for media literacy. The portal broadens the recent campaign of the AEM and UNICEF, entitled "Let’s choose what we watch", which has shown through various examples the potential impact of media on children and parents (IRIS 2016-1/17). The portal is intended to inform...