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The Department for Legal Information analyses key legal issues linked to the audiovisual sector and reports on major legal developments and ground breaking cases which affect media legislation in Europe.
IRIS Plus 2001-5: Changing Aspects of Broadcasting: New Territory and New Challenges
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
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?
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 2001-2: National Film Production Aid: Legislative Characteristics and Trends
This edition of IRIS plus offers a synopsis of various legislative provisions concerning direct national support for film production.
IRIS Plus 2001-1: Non-Discriminatory Access to Digital Access Control Services
This edition of IRIS plus deals with electronic conditional access systems and their function as gateways to digital services.
IRIS Plus 2000-5: Who Owns Electronic Rights?
A round table conference was held on 27 May 2000 at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam (IViR) to discuss the issue of the ownership of copyrights, with special focus on the new electronic media. The conference was organised by the Institute for Information Law in...
IRIS Plus 2000-4: MP3: Fair or Unfair Use?
This article dates from 2000 and explores some of the legal problems arising from the then current uses of MP3 technology by considering case law from various European countries and the United States. The case law is selected and presented according to the chronology of technical developments.
IRIS Plus 2000-3: The Financing of Public Service Broadcasting in Selected Central and Eastern European States
As Illustrated by Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Slovakia for the year 2000.
IRIS Plus 2000-2: The Electronic Rights War
Who Owns the Rights to New Digital Uses of Existing Works of Authorship? Some stock taking reflecting the situation as of April 2000.
IRIS Plus 2000-1: Copyright and Related Rights in the Audiovisual Sector
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.
