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Ofcom has a statutory duty pursuant to the Communications Act 2003 to set standards for broadcast content as appear to it best calculated to secure the standards objectives, one of which is that “persons under the age of eighteen are protected”. This is also reflected in Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code. As such, the early morning broadcast on BBC’s Radio 1’s breakfast show of a song that included in the lyrics the word “fuck” was in breach of the Code, as children were most likely to be listening at that time. BBC Radio 1’s show “Breakfast with Nick Grimshaw” played at about 7:55 a.m. a session recording...

At its meeting on 28 January 2015, the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Committee for the Protection of Young People in the Media - KJM) gave a positive assessment of the “[verify‐U] face‐to‐face” module, an additional age verification system devised by Cybits AG for closed user groups in telemedia. According to the Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement on the Protection of Young People in the Media - JMStV), certain telemedia services that are harmful to minors may only be distributed within a closed user group. As a result, telemedia providers are required to ensure that access...

On 27 January 2015, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland published its new “Rules on Television Subtitling, Sign Language and Audio Description”. The previous rules had been in effect since 2012 (see IRIS 2012-7/28) and in 2014 a public consultation was launched on revising the rules (see IRIS 2014-7/25). The rules set out the level of subtitling, sign language and audio-description that television broadcasters must offer to the public. Under the new rules, a range of percentage targets are set for each broadcast service (television station) that they must provide for the period 2014-2018 and...

On 27 January 2015, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland published its revised code of programme standards. The previous code had been in effect since 2007 (see IRIS 2008-5/23) and in 2014 a public consultation was launched in order to update the code. The Authority noted that the review indicated that the content of the previous code remained relevant, but “the structure and wording of the code required substantial revision”. This was to ensure the code was more “user-friendly and understandable”. Thus, while the previous code had over 14 sections under both “Content Rules” and “Content Principles”,...

At its meeting on 10 December 2014, the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for the Protection of Young People in the Media - KJM) gave a positive assessment of three new age verification measures (AVS partial modules) for closed user groups in telemedia. They are Aristotle Inc.'s "Aristotle Integrity/Instant Global ID and Age Verification (Integrity)" system, edentiX GmbH's "Online Ausweischeck" and Web Shield Limited's "KYC Shield". According to the Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement on the Protection of Young People in the Media - JMStV), certain content that is...