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A “Broadcasting Code of Conduct” consisting of 12 Articles, prepared by the Radyo ve Televizyon Ust Kurulu (Turkish Radio Television Supreme Council - RTÜK) and the Turkish Television Broadcasters Association, was signed on 3 July 2007 by Turkish television broadcasting companies including: TRT, Samanyolu TV, ATV, Kanal D, Show TV, NTV, CNN Türk, Kanal 7, Kanal A, Kral TV, Fox, Cine 5, TV8, CNBC-E, Flash TV, Kanal 1, Digitürk, Powertürk, Skytürk, and Habertürk. The main idea of this Code of Conduct is to promote a clean and safe broadcasting environment...

On 4 May 2007, the Turkish Parliament adopted the Turkish Code 5651, which regulates Internet contents and stipulates crimes committed via the Internet (see IRIS 2007-5: 19). The first part of the Code regulates criminal law matters, whereas the second part concerns civil law aspects. According to the Code, access to a website shall be banned, if there is sufficient suspicion that certain crimes are being committed via that Internet website. Those crimes are: (i) the encouraging of people to commit suicide, (ii) the sexual abuse of children, (iii) the facilitation of the abuse of drugs, (iv) the...

In February 2007, the Spanish national public service broadcaster TVE had widely advertised a programme to be shown during its primetime: an interview conducted by journalist Jesús Quintero, who had a weekly show on TVE, with another journalist, José María García, formerly one of the most popular and controversial Spanish journalists who had been out of the spotlight for several years due to illness. The interview had already been recorded, and TVE used some clips from this in the advertising for the programme. However, shortly before the beginning of the programme, TVE decided not to broadcast...

In the legal dispute concerning a television film produced on the Contergan scandal by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (West German Broadcasting Corporation - WDR), the Oberlandesgericht Hamburg (Hamburg Court of Appeal) largely set aside four judgments on 10 April 2007 against the broadcasting of the film. In July 2006, Grünenthal GmbH, the former manufacturer of the drug Contergan (thalidomide) and the lawyer who represented the victims at that time obtained an interim injunction against the broadcasting of the film (see IRIS 2006-8: 12). The Landgericht Hamburg (Hamburg District Court) had regarded...

The Slovak Ministry of Culture is expected to submit a new draft of the Media Act to the Parliament by the end of June. In cooperation with publishers, the Slovak Syndicate of Journalists has also participated in the drafting. The Minister of Culture of the Slovak Republic and the Chairman of the Slovakian Syndicate of Journalist have informed members of the Parliament concerning the urgency and necessity of the approval of such an Act. The purpose of the new Act is to regulate the exercise of the constitutional principle of freedom of speech and the right for information in the mass media, who...