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Tobias Raab
On 30 September 2016, the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht, OLG) of Cologne decided that the so called „Tagesschau-App“ of the Public Service Broadcaster ARD, as it was available online on 15 June 2011, violates the Interstate Broadcasting Treaty (Case no. 6 U 188/12).
The plaintiffs, eleven German publishing houses, had argued that the app violated § 11 of the German Broadcasting Treaty (Rundfunkstaatsvertrag, RStV). § 11 RStV prohibits Public Service Broadcasters from publishing content not related to their programmes in a press-like way and aims at protecting private publishers from the distortion of competition resulting from press-like activities by…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Gianna Iacino,
On 25 October 2016, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided that the arguments of the Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof, OGH) for the conviction of a publisher for identifying reporting, are relevant, but not sufficient (Appl. no. 60818/10). Therefore, the conviction of the publisher violates the freedom of expression according to art. 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
In 2006, the weekly news magazine Profil of the publisher Verlagsgruppe News GmbH published an article on the financial difficulties of the bank Hypo Alpe-Adria due to its huge speculative losses. The article mentioned the treasurer…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
This week, Ossigeno has verified and made know 8 cases of intimidation against journalists and information operators. Targeted because of their work: Nicola Aurora; Journalists; Sigfrido Parrello; Luca Simeone. They are 3 men and 5 n/d. The methods of intimidation, according to the Ossigeno classification method, fall into the following types: Frivolous defamation lawsuit (2), Obstacle to freedom
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) is joining its affiliate, the Association of Journalists of Kosovo (AJK), to denounce the ban on media to cover the initial hearing of the so-called “Land Fraud” case involving senior politicans and judges. In a press release, AJK expressed its disagreement with the reasoning of the president of this
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Recently established, the regional platform for media freedom in the Western Balkans warns about the increased use of physical violence as a tool of intimidation against journalists
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Giuseppe Carbone resented an article by the journalist Sigfrifo Parrello in which his referral by the Federal Prosecutor is described Giuseppe Carbone, president of the football club US Palmese, has instructed his lawyers to sue the journalist Sigfrido Parrello. Mr Carbone contests Parrello for an article from October 25, 2016, published on the website Costaviolanews,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Established for Nicola Bignotti, former director general of the Football Association Pavia, an inhibition for two months and a fine of 1,200 euro payable by the club The former director general – for months – has denied the reporter Luca Simeone of the newspaper La Provincia Pavese access to the grandstand and the stadium press
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is due to become law across the European Union in May 2018. As we have seen, a range of provisions within the GDPR are of particular importance to children and teenagers and their rights to participation and protection, including the proposal that under 16 year-olds should require parental consent to register for social networks […]
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Media Policy Project
From being abolished in 2013 to being relaunched in 2015, the Greek public broadcaster ERT has undergone a tumultous few years. In this post, Petros Iosifidis of City, University of London, who recently spoke at an event at the LSE on public service media in Europe, will shed light on the reasons why ERT has been widely perceived to be […]
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Media Policy Project
by Ieva Andersone
On 15 November 2016, the Latvian Association of Journalists published an announcement condemning the recently concluded criminal proceedings against a journalist for her investigative journalism activities.
According to publicly available information, in September 2015, the State Police initiated criminal proceedings against a journalist from public broadcaster LTV. The journalist was working for an investigative journalism broadcast - "Aizliegtais paņēmiens", or "The Prohibited Manner".
In this broadcast, the journalists generally perform so-called journalistic experiments in order to discover illegal or faulty procedures within public institutions or private companies.
In the relevant case, the journalist performed an experiment in order to…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
