The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee has proposed that the three key copyright issues (the rights of distribution, communication and reproduction) should be dealt with in one EU directive. The Barzanti Report claims that without a single legal framework, the internal market will be severely disrupted and possibly destroyed. The report also calls on the… Continue reading EU: MEPs For Copyright Controls
Italy is facing censure from the EC over its interpretation of the General Directive on Data Protection, which it implemented in May this year, the first MS so to do. But the Italian direct marketing industry is campaigning vigorously to have the legislation amended; the protests focus on the Italian government’s decision to impose an… Continue reading EU: EC Warns Italy Over Data Protection
IPC has announced the launch of its first title from the SouthBank Group’s recently established new product development team.With a cover date of Autumn/Winter Made Up! will launch on October 23 as a young women’s fashion and beauty magazine aimed at 16-24 year olds. The 132 page glossy will contain mostly real reader makeovers and… Continue reading IPC Launches Makeover Magazine
Spain’s disputed law on digital TV is likely to be approved by the European Commission this week, following changes made by the Spanish Government to the text. The amendments remove obstacles which had hindered the commercial development of Spain’s digital TV providers.
Overall it was a poor month for the national newspaper industry with just five titles showing year on year increases in readership – four of these were broadsheets. The Sunday Telegraph led the way with an increase of almost 15% year on year to 2.36 million while the Guardian rose over 6% to 1.346 million.… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS – August
ITV and Barclaycard have announced that they are to join forces to sponsor the ITV Barclaycard Champions of Sports Awards – a celebration of British sporting achievement. The deal involves Barclaycard being both the event and broadcast sponsor and is part of their build-up programme to sponsor British athletes for the Sydney 2000 Olympics.The sponsorship… Continue reading ITV And Barclaycard To Sponsor Sports Awards
The European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA) has published its new edition of “Advertising Self-Regulation in Europe”. The text covers self-regulatory systems in the EU, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey. It also includes and examines the codes of conduct introduced by the various national self-regulatory bodies; national legislation; comparative tables of the… Continue reading EU: EASA Analyses Self Regulation
At last week’s Labour Party conference Mr Frank Dobson, UK secretary of state for health, promised party delegates that “we’ll ban tobacco advertising”. Meanwhile the British-based advertising agency Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO has started working on behalf of the anti-smoking lobbying group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) to study the loopholes that might emerge… Continue reading UK: Ban Campaign Mobilises
A new policy report from the UK Consumers’ Association – Communications Regulation; making the right connections – proposes a rationalisation of the current regulatory framework for the communications industry as a whole in the UK. It calls for a single regulator that would merge the functions of the ITC, Oftel, the Radio Authority and (possibly)… Continue reading UK: CA Wants Single Regulatory Body
The Swedish government in conjunction with the Komsumentverket, the Swedish national board of consumer policy, are seeking the removal of alcohol advertisements by the state alcohol company Vin & Spirit from the Internet. Legal action is expected to be taken by the two state bodies against Vin & Spirit to enforce the demand. Vin &… Continue reading SWE: New Conflict Brewing
