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(Hans-Bredow-Institut) Eine Sichtung ausgewählter Dokumente und wissenschaftlicher Studien. Das Hans-Bredow-Institut sichtet im Auftrag der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Landesmedienanstalten (ALM) Dokumente von Regulierungsinstanzen, in- und ausländischen sowie supranationalen Organisationen und Verbänden sowie aus dem wissenschaftlichen Bereich und erstellt Zusammenfassungen, die auf die für die Arbeit der Landesmedienanstalten relevanten Fragen fokussiert sind. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei neben inländischen Institutionen solche aus den USA, Kanada, Großbritannien und Frankreich. Daneben wird die am Institut gesammelte wissenschaftliche Literatur ausgewertet.
(Heise) Als "Schlag ins Gesicht der deutschen Medienpolitik" kritisiert ZDF-Intendant Markus Schächter die vom Interessensverband der privaten elektronischen Medien in Deutschland (VPRT) in Brüssel vorgetragene beihilferechtliche Beschwerde über das Online-Angebot von ARD und ZDF. Der Verband wolle mit dieser Beschwerde die ordnungspolitischen Rahmenbedingungen für den Rundfunk in Deutschland zu Gunsten der privaten Rundfunkveranstalter verändern, heißt es in einer Erklärung des ZDF. Sie ziele auf eine Senkung der Rundfunkgebühren, Änderung der Besteuerung und die Blockierung der Internet-Aktivitäten des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks ab.
(BBC) A man caught with what is thought to be one of the biggest ever hauls of internet child porn in the Operation Ore inquiry has been jailed for four months. Nicholas Ferry, 42, from Thame in Oxfordshire, admitted possessing 250,000 indecent images. The father-of-two had also downloaded 495 obscene videos of youngsters on to his computer, Aylesbury Crown Court heard.
(Reuters) Australian police have closed down an Internet music piracy site and arrested three students in an alleged copyright scam that cost the music industry at least $37 million.
(OSCE) The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has published a booklet titled From Quill to Cursor - Freedom of the Media in the Digital Era. Experts from UNESCO and the Council of Europe as well as journalists and internet service providers contributed their papers from a one-day workshop on freedom of the media and the Internet that was held in Vienna in November 2002.
(Transfert) Le gouvernement tunisien gèle l'octroi d'autorisations pour les cybercafés privés et annonce son intention de limiter l'accès à internet à des "centres de services publics" contrôlés par l'Etat. Les autorités rappellent qu'elles "procèdent à la révision approfondie et minutieuse (sic) des critères d'octroi des autorisations d'exploitation des centres publics d'internet".
(BBC) A poster for a video game has been found by the UK's advertising watchdog to condone violence. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that a poster for Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance was irresponsible and likely to incite people, especially children, to violence.
(ASA) The Advertising Standards Authority has published findings from a survey into the compliance of Internet advertisements with the British Codes of Advertising and Sales Promotion.
(CNET News.com) The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) has appealed the Pennsylvania attorney general's recent decision not to disclose the list of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to sites suspected of featuring child pornography. CDT is seeking the list because it suspects the government's campaign is overly broad and has forced Internet service providers (ISPs) to cordon off unoffending sites as well.
(CNET News.com) Job-hunters at Monster.com who happened to go to school in Syria or Iran may be in for an unpleasant surprise. So might employers using the popular job-search site, which boasts more than 800,000 job postings, to advertise open positions in Sudan, Burma and five other countries. In a move the company claims is designed to comply with federal regulations, Monster.com will delete most references to those countries from job postings and resumes. A note that Monster.com sent to affected users says: "Your resume will be altered, removing all sanctioned countries from your resume."
(Hans-Bredow-Institut) von Wolfgang Schulz / Uwe Jürgens / Thorsten Held / Stephan Dreyer. Oktober 2002 (Arbeitspapiere des Hans-Bredow-Instituts Nr. 13)
(IFPI) Speech by Iain Grant, Head of Enforcement, IFPI. European Parliament, 23 April 2003. The economic damage done by piracy is enormous, but its impact goes beyond the financial losses to record companies. Its victims are: artists who are not paid for their creative work; economies starved of new investment; governments who lose hundreds of millions of tax revenue; and consumers who ultimately get less diversity and less choice.
(Forum des droits sur l'internet) Dans le cadre du projet de loi relatif à la protection des données personnelles, les sénateurs ont autorisé les personnes morales de droit privé à procéder à des traitements de données relatifs aux infractions et condamnations. Une première application pourrait viser les utilisateurs des réseaux peer-to-peer.
(BBC) Popstar Madonna is known as a woman who does not mince her words. She has used her forthright manner to try to stop online piracy of her latest album, American Life. File-sharing networks have been flooded with fake tracks, which contain no music but instead have Madonna saying; "What the f*** do you think you are doing?" But despite efforts to stop unauthorised copies appearing on the net before its release, the album was readily available for download on several MP3 websites last week.
(Reuters) A federal court in Los Angeles denied a request to shut down Internet song-swapping services Grokster and Morpheus, handing a stunning setback to the record labels and movie studios that have sought to curb unauthorized downloading of their works. The judge said the two services should not be shut down because they cannot control what is traded over their system. Like a videocassette recorder, the software could be used for legitimate purposes as well as traffic in copyrighted songs and movies, he said.
(Transfert) La gestion des fichiers policiers laisse à désirer, et les demandes d'accès à de tels fichiers ont doublé depuis l'an passé, selon Michel Gentot, président de la Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL). Le texte de son intervention lors de la conférence de printemps des commissaires à la protection des données n'est pas des plus tendres avec la façon qu'ont les forces de l'ordre de surveiller et de ficher les citoyens. Intitulé La CNIL et les fichiers de sécurité publique, ce discours a été donné devant les commissaires, réunis à Séville les 3 et 4 avril dernier. Voir aussi La transposition de la directive vie privée et communications électroniques en France de Mme Cécile ALVERGNAT, membre de la CNIL et Loyauté et cohérence dans les transferts de données vers les pays tiers,de M. Marcel PINET, membre de la CNIL.
(out-law.com) Ireland has finally implemented the 1995 Directive on Data Protection, almost five years after the expiry of the EU's deadline. Ireland becomes the 14th of the 15 Member States to get its domestic privacy legislation in order. Luxembourg has still to comply. see Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 A Compendium.
(CNET News.com) Eleven groups, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Junkbusters, have filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), asking that it investigate whether Amazon is letting children 12 years old and younger post reviews of toy products without their parents' consent, which violates the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
(Pressemitteilung) Im Rahmen der Begleitforschung des MEDIA@Komm-Projekts ist soeben ein Leitfaden zum rechtskonformen E-Government erschienen, , der Fragen rund um den "Bau" des virtuellen Rathauses beantwortet.
(out-law.com) A recent decision by Austria's Federal Constitutional Court says that the Austrian law that compels the country's telcos and ISPs to implement retention measures at their own expense is unconstitutional.
(MIT Technology Review) In pursuit of security and service, we are submitting ourselves to a proliferation of monitoring technologies. But a loss of privacy is not inevitable.
(Heise) Per Einstweiliger Verfügung ließ AOL dem Dialer-Anbieter Interfun untersagen, künftig "E-Mails zum Zwecke des Vertriebs von Zugangs-Software für Erotikdienste oder zur Bewerbung solcher Dienste zu versenden, ohne dass bereits eine Geschäftsbeziehung mit dem Empfänger besteht oder dessen tatsächliches oder mutmaßliches Einverständnis für den Empfang vorliegt."
(IDG News Service) A coalition of e-mail service providers plans to develop registries intended to separate the legitimate bulk e-mailers from the spammers. It will focus on a certification process for companies sending out bulk e-mail. Vendors who pass the certification will get a sort of seal of approval.The certification process for the registry, code-named Project Lumos, will require bulk e-mailers to reveal their identities. It proposes imposing a standard system for including all sender information in mail headers, and an authentication process that provides a secure proof of identity in the SMTP header.
(CNET News.com) Companies face a host of legal land mines that they need to consider when developing emerging technology, lawyers at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference told developers. The lawyers said companies are increasingly wielding patent and copyright laws such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to thwart competitors and maintain their market share. As a result, the lawyers said, we're heading toward a world where companies increasingly need to consider the legal ramifications of their products.
(CNET News.com) A U.S district court ruled for a second time that Verizon Communications must give up the identity of an anonymous Internet subscriber accused of swapping music files online.
(Europemedia.net) The European Commission probe into roaming charges from mobile operators - the service that allows mobile customers to use their phones in other countries - will not produce any findings before August, according to a report in the Financial Times.
(Guardian) An electronic age verification scheme designed to crack down on paedophiles who use the internet to groom child victims was launched today by the UK's largest photo ID card scheme, CitizenCard. The scheme, interactiveAgeCheck (iAC), which CitizenCard claims is the first of its type in the UK, will allow internet companies - such as chatroom operators - to check the age and identity of their users. see Press Release.
(OJ) 2003/S 71-061277. A call for tenders is planned in June or July 2003 to provide a secretariat to support the Safer Internet Forum, including subject-field experts to suggest themes of study, prepare working papers, moderate discussions and record conclusions. To receive individual notification when the call for tenders is published, send an e-mail to iap@cec.eu.int with the subject line "SIFSUPP".
(Europemedia) In stark contrast to a more circumspect research issued recently by Strategy Analytics, a new report from Strand Consults predicts that adult mobile content will grow from a total market value of E553m in Western Europe in 2003, to a very conservative estimate of E2.7bn by the end of 2005. Even though this figure could easily be much higher, the report claims, E2.7bn is well over 10 per cent of the total value of the mobile services market.
(Cellular News) Strategy Analytics has released a new report that suggests wireless porn will be limited to just US$1 Billion in 2008. With so much pornography available for free on the fixed Internet, demand for adult material will continue to be largely met by fixed Internet services.
(CNET News.com) Lufthansa sees "no reason whatsoever" to ground plans to offer high-speed Web access to passengers in 2004. The airline has been testing equipment and services from Connexion by Boeing, the wireless technology subsidiary of the aerospace giant. Passengers on 140 Lufthansa flights have been able to use their laptops to access the Internet at broadband speeds.Between 50 and 80 passengers per flight used the service. Web traveling passengers were "doing lots of streaming video" and even using the Web to make phone calls.
(Guardian) BBC1 and ITV have been pushed into second place in the ratings by satellite and cable channels for the first time in TV history. The figures are a major milestone as they take into account the 50% of homes that have only five channels - digital channels narrowly outstripped BBC1 and ITV last year but only in multichannel homes. The shift towards multichannel viewing has serious implications for advertisers, the ongoing argument surrounding public service broadcasting in a digital age and the BBC's bid to retain the licence fee.
(FCR) El acto de presentación del programa de sensibilización INTERNET SEGURA tendrá lugar el próximo día 8 de mayo en Madrid. La campaña INTERNET SEGURA se lanzará en 7 países europeos, con el apoyo del Plan de Acción por una Internet más segura de la Comisión Europea (proyecto SafeBorders). Expertos internacionales y nacionales en el tema aportarán el resultado de sus experiencias y debatirán sobre distintas cuestiones: - ¿Interesan los sistemas de filtrado? ¿Por qué?; - ¿Qué sistemas de prevención se pueden utilizar?; - ¿Qué opinan los expertos?
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