Broadcasting - European Audiovisual Observatory

IRIS Plus 2002-4: In Search of Lost Rightsholders: Clearing Video-on-Demand Rights for European Audiovisual Works

01/09/2002 Author: Francisco Javier Cabrera Blázquez, European Audiovisual Observatory

This article investigates the conflict between copyright protection and new ways of exploiting audiovisual works. The key role that collecting societies might play and the need for corresponding legal provisions are discussed in particular.

IRIS Plus 2002-3: Co-Regulation of the Media in Europe: European Provisions for the Establishment of Co-regulation Frameworks

01/06/2002 Author: Dr Carmen Palzer, Institute of European Media Law (EMR), Saarbrücken/ Brussels

This article discusses the role that co-regulation plays in the audiovisual media, focusing on European Union and Council of Europe provisions that need to be implemented through national legislation. The European legal framework for co-regulation is primarily described using the example of the...

IRIS Plus 2002-1: Media Supervision on the Threshold of the 21st Century What are the Requirements of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Concentration Regulation?

01/02/2002 Authors: Alexander Scheuer & Peter Strothmann, Institute of European Media Law (EMR), Saarbrücken/Brussels

The following article is based on the ideas that were brought to a workshop held by the European Audiovisual Observatory and the Institute of European Media Law (EMR).

IRIS Special 2001 - Television and Media Concentration - Regulatory Models on the National and the European Level

01/12/2001 Authors: Susanne Nikoltchev (Ed.), European Audiovisual Observatory

This book is intended first and foremost to contribute to a better understanding of the variety of legal problems and regulations that are relevant to limiting concentrations of power in the medium of television.

IRIS Plus 2001-5: Changing Aspects of Broadcasting: New Territory and New Challenges

01/12/2001 Author: Tarlach McGonagle, Institute for Information Law (IViR) University of Amsterdam

This issue of IRIS plus provides another part of the jigsaw on the theme of the convergence of the audiovisual media.

IRIS Plus 2001-4: Media supervision on the threshold of the 21st century - structure and powers of regulatory authorities in the era of convergence

01/09/2001 Authors: Carmen Palzer & Caroline Hilger, Institute of European Media Law (EMR)

In this edition of IRIS plus, the Observatory addresses current concerns surrounding the adaptation of regulatory mechanisms to the emergence of new media.

IRIS Plus 2001-3: Does the Existing Regulatory Framework for Television Apply to the New Media?

01/06/2001 Authors: Tarlach Mc Gonagle, Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam

This edition of IRIS Plus focuses, in particular, on an overview of the definition of "broadcasting" and "new media services" provided for in the current European legal framework.

IRIS Plus 2001-1: Non-Discriminatory Access to Digital Access Control Services

01/02/2001 Authors: Natali Helberger, Institute for Information Law (IViR), Alexander Scheuer & Peter Strothmann, Institute of European Media Law (EMR)

This edition of IRIS plus deals with electronic conditional access systems and their function as gateways to digital services.

IRIS Plus 2000-3: The Financing of Public Service Broadcasting in Selected Central and Eastern European States

01/06/2000 Authors: Kerstin Däther & Alexander Scheuer, Institute of European Media Law (EMR)

As Illustrated by Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Slovakia for the year 2000.

01/02/2000 Authors: Natali Helberger, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, Francisco Javier Cabrera Blázquez & Susanne Nikoltchev, European Audiovisual Observatory

The following contribution informs on the situation in the field of copyright and related rights in the year 2000. It focuses on the then applicable regulation and ongoing developments concerning WIPO and the EC.