http://www.lexferenda.com/19042006/intellect-oh-well/ daithí mac sithigh's blog on cyberlaw & media law Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:18:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.lexferenda.com/19042006/intellect-oh-well/#comment-6 Lex Ferenda » Six committees, one directive Sat, 27 May 2006 11:22:50 +0000 http://www.lexferenda.com/wordpress/?p=35#comment-6 [...] The European Parliament is holding hearings on the Audiovisual Media Services directive (the update to the EU’s Television Without Frontiers, last updated in the mid-90s) proposed by the European Commission.  TWF deals with issues such as advertising, satellite broadcasting, rights to sporting events, and so on.  The biggest issue in the debate over updating it is how to deal with ‘non-linear’ content (web-based or mobile-delivered media, essentially).  There’s been a lot of opposition from various corners of the media industries, and when I posted about the alliance of companies seeking amendments, I suggested that things were about to get more interesting.  Now that’s quite relative, I suppose, but we did have the amusing spectacle of the Commissioner responsible (Viviane Reding) apparently getting some tough questions at a press conference held to mark the Council’s outline support (that’s the EU council of ministers responsible for all this jazz, keep up at the back). [...] [...] The European Parliament is holding hearings on the Audiovisual Media Services directive (the update to the EU’s Television Without Frontiers, last updated in the mid-90s) proposed by the European Commission.  TWF deals with issues such as advertising, satellite broadcasting, rights to sporting events, and so on.  The biggest issue in the debate over updating it is how to deal with ‘non-linear’ content (web-based or mobile-delivered media, essentially).  There’s been a lot of opposition from various corners of the media industries, and when I posted about the alliance of companies seeking amendments, I suggested that things were about to get more interesting.  Now that’s quite relative, I suppose, but we did have the amusing spectacle of the Commissioner responsible (Viviane Reding) apparently getting some tough questions at a press conference held to mark the Council’s outline support (that’s the EU council of ministers responsible for all this jazz, keep up at the back). [...]

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