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At its meeting of July 2014, the Compliance Committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) upheld, in part, a complaint made against the broadcast of a dance routine, which included clear sexual overtones. The complaint concerned the broadcast of the dance routine at 6:30pm on a Sunday evening on RTÉ television’s The Voice of Ireland, without any prior audience warnings or notifications as to the nature of the content. Under section 48 of the Broadcasting Act 2009, viewers can complain about broadcasting content, which they believe is not in keeping with broadcasting codes and rules....

In mid-September 2014, the Federal Government submitted a “report on the measures taken in 2013 to remove telemedia services containing child pornography” in accordance with Article 184b of the Strafgesetzbuch (Criminal Code - StGB) to the German lower House of Parliament (Bundestag)”. In the digital world, images of sexual abuse of children are distributed to a high but unknown number of users worldwide. There is therefore an urgent need to effectively protect the victims of this abuse. With this aim in mind, the Federal Criminal Police Authority (Bundeskriminalamt - BKA), the national body jugendschutz.net,...

In a ruling of 22 September 2014 (case no. 13 K 4674/13), the Verwaltungsgericht Köln (Cologne Administrative Court - VG) upheld a private collector’s right to a copy of a pornographic film. The plaintiff had initially asked the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien (Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young People - BPjM) for a copy of the classified video film, which was no longer available to buy, “for his own use”. His request was rejected by the BPjM on the grounds that, firstly, the request had not been made within the scope, and for the purposes of the Freedom of Information...

On 2 August 2014, three new media acts, namely the Act on Public Information and Media, the Act on Electronic Media, and the Act on Public Service Media were adopted by the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and published in the Official Gazette No. 83/2014. The adoption of these acts was one of the main goals set in the Media Strategy, which the Government adopted in September 2011 and follows the stakeholder consultations and public debates that were held in 2013. Superseding a more than a decade old legislation, the new acts are introducing significant changes to the legal framework,...

On 18 August 2014, the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Committee for Youth Protection in the Media – KJM) published a press release, in which it presented the cases it had examined during the first half of 2014 following alleged breaches of the Staatsvertrag über den Schutz der Menschenwürde und den Jugendschutz in Rundfunk und Telemedien (Inter-State Agreement on the Protection of Human Dignity and Minors in Broadcasting and Telemedia – JMStV). In order to monitor the broadcasting sector, the KJM relies on the staff of the Land media authorities, which evaluate possible breaches of the JMStV...