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The interpretation of the concept of broadcasting has been the subject of discussion in Germany for some time (see IRIS-6:9). At the heart of the problem is the treatment of the new media. Broadcasting is defined in Article 2 of the Agreement on Broadcasting between the Federal States in United Germany (RStV) as presentation and dissemination to the general public of performances of any kind in words, sound or pictures using electrical vibrations with a conductor or without a connecting conductor. This raises the problem of the position of multi-media services. In particular there is the question...

On 30 March 1995 the Slovenian Parliament passed legislation on copyright and related rights. The Act entered into force on 29 April 1995, and is now also available in English. The area covered by the act includes not only the primary protection of the author of literary, scientific and artistic works (copyright), but also the secondary protection of the related rights of performing artist-s, producers of phonograms and films, broadcasting companies and publishers. According to Section 5-II-2 of the Copyright Act, computer programmes are also specifically included in the scope of protection provided...

On 22 September 1995 and on 19 October 1995, the Russian President's Judicial Chamber on Information Disputes took a decision in regards to the protection of the privacy of the individual against the media. The first decision concerned a complaint by a Member of Parliament regarding the broadcasting of inaccurate information by the television broadcaster ORT. ORT had broadcast information on a fight in the halls of a State Duma session. In its report on the fight, ORT only mentioned the surname of the MP involved in the fight. The problem was that there are two MPs with the same surname. The one...

On 14 December 1995, in a second reading, the European Parliament amended the common position of the Council on a directive on the legal protection of databases. Once the Directive has been adopted and transposed into the national laws of the EU Member States, makers or rightholders of a database may no longer prevent a lawful user of the database from extracting and re-utilizing insubstantial part-s, provided that such user does not unreasonably prejudice either the legitimate interests of the holder of the sui generis right or the holder of copyright or a related right in respect of the works...

On 3 November 1995, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe recommended the governments of its member States a number of guiding principles to follow in criminal procedures connected with information technology. These priciples may be relevant in a case like CompuServe's newsgroups ( see : elsewhere in this issue under `The Global Information Society') or the Scientology case in the Netherlands ( see : IRIS 1995-9: 4). The principles recommended, concern the search of computer systems, the seizure of data, technical surveillance (interception of data communications), obligations to...