[eccr] QuickLinks 268 - 28 April 2003

QuickLinks 268 - 28 April 2003

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Legal and regulatory issues

   Audiovisual
1. DE - DocuWatch Digitales Fernsehen

   Competition
2. EU / DE - ZDF kritisiert EU-Klage der Privatfunker

   Computer crime
3. UK - Father jailed for huge porn haul

   Content regulation
4. AU- Australia shutters music piracy site
5. OSCE - Media Representative focuses on freedom of expression in the
digital era
6. TN - Le gouvernement veut "nationaliser" les cybercafés tunisiens
7. UK -  Video game ad 'condoned violence'
8. UK - Internet Banner and Pop-up Advertisements Survey 2002
9. US - Group questions state site-blocking law
10. US - Monster.com's resume purge draws fire

   Convergence of telecommunications, media and information technology
11. DE - Regulation of Broadcasting and Internet Services in Germany
- A brief overview

   Copyright, trademarks and patents
12. EU - Piracy Is Not A Victimless Crime
13. FR - Peer-to-peer : les utilisateurs bientôt suivis à la trace ?
14. Madonna swears at music pirates
15. US - Suit Against Web Song-Swappers Rejected

   Data Protection (privacy)
16. FR - Fichiers de sécurité publique : la CNIL règle ses comptes
avec la police
17. IRE - Ireland finally updates data protection laws
18. US - Is Amazon.com no place for kids?

   e-Government
19. DE - Leitfaden rechtskonformes E-Government

   Interception
20. AT - Surveillance law unconstitutional in Austria
21. Surveillance Nation - Part Two

   Junk mail (spam)
22. AOL vs. Dialeranbieter Interfun
23. US - Antispam Registry Proposed

   Liability, jurisdiction and applicable law
24. US - New technologies face legal headaches
25. US - Verizon gets 14 days to ID file-swapper

   Mobile and wireless
26. EU - Probe into roaming charges delayed

   Protection of minors
27. UK - Online age check scheme launched

   Self-regulation / codes of conduct
28. EU - Support for Safer Internet Forum - prior information notice

Market & Technology

   Mobile and wireless
29. Europe - Mobile porn industry worth E2.7bn by 2007
30. Porn will not save 3G - report
31. Web access Lufthansa's hot ticket?

   Statistics
32. UK - Multichannel TV overtakes terrestrial

Forthcoming events

33. 2003-05-08 ES, Madrid - Prevención de riesgos en Internet.
Filtros: ¿educar o censurar?

1. DE - DocuWatch Digitales Fernsehen (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15818.htm

2. EU / DE - ZDF kritisiert EU-Klage der Privatfunker (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15826.htm

3. UK - Father jailed for huge porn haul (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15834.htm

4. AU- Australia shutters music piracy site (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15840.htm

5. OSCE - Media Representative focuses on freedom of expression in the
digital era (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15836.htm

6. TN - Le gouvernement veut "nationaliser" les cybercafés tunisiens
(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".
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15821.htm

7. UK -  Video game ad 'condoned violence' (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15844.htm

8. UK - Internet Banner and Pop-up Advertisements Survey 2002 (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15841.htm

9. US - Group questions state site-blocking law (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15842.htm

10. US - Monster.com's resume purge draws fire (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."
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15838.htm

11. DE - Regulation of Broadcasting and Internet Services in Germany -
A brief overview (Hans-Bredow-Institut)
von Wolfgang Schulz / Uwe Jürgens / Thorsten Held / Stephan Dreyer.
Oktober 2002 (Arbeitspapiere des Hans-Bredow-Instituts Nr. 13)
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15817.htm

12. EU - Piracy Is Not A Victimless Crime (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15816.htm

13. FR - Peer-to-peer : les utilisateurs bientôt suivis à la trace ?
(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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15820.htm

14. Madonna swears at music pirates (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15832.htm

15. US - Suit Against Web Song-Swappers Rejected (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15823.htm

16. FR - Fichiers de sécurité publique : la CNIL règle ses comptes
avec la police (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15819.htm

17. IRE - Ireland finally updates data protection laws (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15824.htm

18. US - Is Amazon.com no place for kids? (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).
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15843.htm

19. DE - Leitfaden rechtskonformes E-Government (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15815.htm

20. AT - Surveillance law unconstitutional in Austria (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15822.htm

21. Surveillance Nation - Part Two (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15829.htm

22. AOL vs. Dialeranbieter Interfun (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."
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15825.htm

23. US - Antispam Registry Proposed (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15837.htm

24. US - New technologies face legal headaches (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15839.htm

25. US - Verizon gets 14 days to ID file-swapper (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15830.htm

26. EU - Probe into roaming charges delayed (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15846.htm

27. UK - Online age check scheme launched (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15833.htm

28. EU - Support for Safer Internet Forum - prior information notice
(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 /at/ cec.eu.int) with the subject line
"SIFSUPP".
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15831.htm

29. Europe - Mobile porn industry worth E2.7bn by 2007 (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15827.htm

30. Porn will not save 3G - report (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15845.htm

31. Web access Lufthansa's hot ticket? (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15828.htm

32. UK - Multichannel TV overtakes terrestrial (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.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15835.htm

33. 2003-05-08 ES, Madrid - Prevención de riesgos en Internet.
Filtros: ¿educar o censurar? (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?
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem15847.htm

Main Sources and Contributors: Baker & McKenzie E-Law Alert, Michael
Geist BNA - ILN, cybertelecom.org, jugendschutz.net, Gerhard Heine,
David Goldstein, selfregulation.info, saferinternet.org.

QuickLinks
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the information society, particularly those relating to information
content, and market and technology.



QuickLinks is edited by Richard Swetenham (richard.swetenham /at/ cec.eu.int)



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