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Along with amendment proposals for commercial radio television organisations (see IRIS 2013-10/13), another draft law is aimed at harmonising the Law regulating the public service broadcaster Ραδιοφωνικό Iδρυμα Κύπρου (RIK - Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation) with the provisions of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (2010/13/EU). In addition to the audiovisual media services of RIK, the amendments also concern radio regulation. The amendments regulate the following - Categories of goods and services, for which television advertising is prohibited during specific timeframes. - Rules about the...

On 27 August 2013, Ofcom found the long-running soap on UK TV, Hollyoaks, which is broadcast on Channel 4 each weekday evening, in breach of its Code. The cast contains characters who are mainly between 16 and 35 years old and the principal target audience is teenagers and young adults. There was a complaint from one viewer about one scene. It depicted one of the main characters being killed, having been being pushed into the path of a fast train. The concern was raised that this scene was unsuitable for viewing before the watershed, in particular because it would have been expected to have been...

In 2010, the commission for the classification of cinematographic works proposed banning under-16-year-olds from watching the film Saw 3D Chapitre Final, the final chapter in a series of successful horror films, with the warning that the film “includes a large number of particularly realistic torture scenes and a high level of brutality, indeed even savagery”. Following this proposition, and in application of Article 3 of the Decree of 23 February 1990, the Minister for Culture and Communication granted the film a screening certificate on condition that it was not to be shown to anyone under the...

On 18 June 2013, the UK Culture Secretary announced an agreement with the internet industry that the self-regulatory Internet Watch Foundation will actively seek out images of child abuse on the internet. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) was established in 1996 by the internet industry. It receives reports from internet users of sexually abusive images of children, and provides for the industry a ‘notice and takedown’ service, which alerts internet service providers and hosting companies of such content so that it can be removed. The Culture Secretary arranged a summit of major internet service...

According to media reports, the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court - BGH), in a ruling of 17 July 2013 (case no. I ZR 34/12), upheld an action brought by the Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentrale (Federation of German Consumer Organisations - vzbv) and prohibited the software firm Gameforge from advertising game accessories sold in connection with its online role-playing game “Runes of Magic”. The vzbv had already cautioned Gameforge in 2010 and had brought actions in the lower courts. However, these had been dismissed by both the Landgericht Berlin (Berlin District Court) and the Kammergericht...