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In October 2007, non-public negotiations started for a new international trade agreement on counterfeiting, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), between the trading partners EU (represented by the European Commission), the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Morocco, Singapore and Switzerland. ACTA aims at becoming a new plurilateral treaty, improving global standards for the enforcement of intellectual property rights, for a more effective combat against trade in counterfeited and pirated goods. Until recently, the negotiations on ACTA were secret....

On 19 April 2010 the Ministers responsible for the Telecommunications and Information Society of the EU member states and the European Economic Area adopted, under the Spanish Presidency, the Granada Declaration on the Digital Agenda. The Declaration notes that the EU2020 Strategy calls for the EU to find a fast and effective road to recovery following the recent economic downturn. Given that the ICT sector is a crucial driver of growth and jobs in the EU economy, Europe could put itself back on the fast track to growth by raising its global competitiveness in the digital economy. To this end,...

On 16 December 2009 the Government adopted the “Concept of Media Education in the Slovak Republic in the Context of Lifelong Learning” (hereinafter referred to as “Concept”). This Concept has been elaborated according to the Government Programme. The requirement to create conditions for the realisation of media education results from various EU documents that underline the importance of information technology. According to Council Directive 89/552/EEC (transposed into Slovak law by Act No. 498/2009 Coll., see IRIS 2009-9: 18) the member states are obliged to submit to the European Commission a...

Germany’s second public service television channel Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) may no longer broadcast, in the form that was the subject of the action, a remark by the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Documents that Gregor Gysi, the leader of the Die Linke party in the Bundestag, “knowingly and deliberately” reported to the Stasi on a critic of the GDR regime. This was decided on 23 March 2010 by the Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht Hamburg (Hanseatic Court of Appeal - OLG, which confirmed the judgment of the lower court. On 4 September 2009, the Landgericht Hamburg (Hamburg Regional Court)...

The European Court of Human Rights in five judgments of 6 April 2010 came to the conclusion that Finland had violated the right of freedom of expression by giving too much protection to the right of private life under Article 8 of the Convention. In all five cases the Court was of the opinion that the criminal conviction of journalists and editors-in-chief and the order to pay damages for disclosing the identity of a public person’s partner amounted to an unacceptable interference with the freedom of expression guaranteed by Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights. All applicants...