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Refine your searchIRIS 2004-8:1/1 European Court of Human Rights: Case of von Hannover v. Germany | |
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The European Court of Human Rights in a judgment of 24 June 2004 has come to the conclusion that Germany has not awarded a sufficient level of protection to the right of privacy of Princess Caroline von Hannover. On several occasions Caroline von Hannover, the daughter of Prince Rainier III of Monaco, applied to the German courts for an injunction to prevent any further publication of a series of photographs which had appeared in the German magazines Bunte, Freizeit Revue and Neue Post. As Caroline von Hannover was undeniably to be considered as a contemporary public figure " par excellence... |
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IRIS 2004-7:1/5 [AT] Electronic Media to Be Taken into Account in Media Act | |
On 8 June 2004 the media department of the Austrian federal chancellery tabled a comprehensive bill amending the Media Act currently in force in Austria. The 1981 Media Act applies to all mass media, irrespective of the dissemination technology used. In principle, therefore, it already applied to all forms of electronic media, even though there were no provisions relating specifically to individual media. This meant it was unclear, however, whether all the provisions of the Act actually applied to information available on the Internet, and since the specific features of the Internet were not taken... |
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IRIS 2004-7:1/1 European Platform of Regulatory Authorities: 19th Meeting in Stockholm | |
The 19 meeting of the European Platform of Regulatory Authorities (EPRA) took place on 3 and 4 June 2004, organised jointly by the Swedish Broadcasting Commission and the Swedish Radio and TV Authority. One theme discussed at the meeting was the dividing line between the need to protect privacy and the right to information deemed to be in the public interest, including the difficulties associated with the protection of privacy in the context of information published on the Internet. A number of points were raised, including the question of who is responsible for privacy protection and in respect... |
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IRIS 2004-6:1/23 [FR] Act on Confidence in the Digital Economy Adopted | |
Article 1 of the Act on confidence in the digital economy, adopted by the Senate at its second reading on 8 April and examined by the Joint Committee on 27 April, creates a separate legal scheme applicable to Internet (see IRIS 2004-3: 8). The text lays down a number of definitions that establish Internet's place in French law relating to audiovisual communication. More particularly, the Act creates the notion of "communication to the public by electronic means", which refers to the making of signs, signals, documents, images, sounds or messages of any kind that do not have the characteristic features... |
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IRIS 2004-6:1/16 [DE] Promoting the Act Prohibiting Unauthorised Photography | |
TheBundestag (Federal Parliament) has further promoted the initiative of the Bundesrat (Federal Council) on the protection of privacy against unauthorised photography (see IRIS 2003-10:13 and IRIS 2004-3: 6). On 29 April the Federal Parliament adopted a corresponding act amending the penal code with the votes of all parliamentary factions. The modification of the previous bill stipulates that certain non-indictable cases of socially inappropriate behaviour shall be excluded from criminal liability. This includes in particular cases when the offender does not positively know that disclosure of pictures... |