The Independent Television Commission yesterday brought its consultation period over the issue on whether to allow ITV to axe its News At Ten bulletin to a close (see Newsline).The ITC received approximately 1700 submissions from the public and industry bodies, and will announce its decision soon after 19 November. It also commissioned an opinion poll,… Continue reading ITC Closes Consultation Period On News At Ten
The Brussels-based Alliance for a Digital Future, a coalition of European software, technology, network and telecoms companies, has accused media conglomerates of wanting to take control of the Internet through new EU rules on copyright. The Alliance has called for incidental copies of protected works not to be covered by the proposed Copyright directive. Meanwhile,… Continue reading EU: Lobbying over copyright control
Andrew Brown, Director General of the Advertising Asssociation, has been appointed Chairman of the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP), the body which draws up the UK’s advertising rules. The appointment begins from January 1999.
The European Brands Association (AIM) is pressing the European Commission to make pan-European advertising and promotions a reality. AIM’s new research shows that a move to normalise legislation governing advertising, couponing, and sales promotions could boost growth and jobs.
The EC’s Expert Group on commercial communications met in Brussels on 22 October to continue its consideration of the regulation of discounts in the internal market. The group discussed this under the heading “Is mutual recognition possible?” Also on the agenda was an exchange of views on toy advertising, with several questions set out for… Continue reading EU: Agenda for Expert Group Meeting
The EC remains “positive and optimistic” on a data protection agreement with the US, following an informal meeting between the EU’s financial services director-general John Mogg and David Aaron, US under-secretary of commerce. “The atmosphere of the meeting was once again very positive and both sides remain optimistic that the objectives of the dialogue can… Continue reading EU: EC “positive” about accord
A proposal to establish a clear regulatory framework for the marketing of financial services at a distance within the Single Market have been agreed by the EC. The aim is to ensure a high level of protection for consumers of retail financial services and to provide financial service suppliers with a clearly defined legal framework… Continue reading EU: Distance Selling for Financial Services
The Government’s Better Regulation Task Force has warned UK ministers that they may have been wrong to support moves to ban tobacco advertising, and has urged them to avoid outright bans in future and rely on self-regulation wherever possible.
The French government has launched a FFr 40m tobacco-control advertising campaign, which promotes ‘Tabac Info Service’, a telephone information line, which aims to persuade pregnant women to stop smoking.
Jeffrey Goldstein, psychology professor at the University of Utrecht, addressing a London conference on Marketing to Children, strongly opposed calls to protect children from advertising on the basis that they could not distinguish commercials from other programming and would not understand their intention was to promote products. “Kids choose from among the commercials those that… Continue reading UK: Kids not influenced by ads
