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Media and Sport Code

By Giovanni Maria Riccio

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On August 2, 2007 the Ministry of Communications has approved a self-regulation code. The code was also endorsed by all radio and television publishers associations and by Europa tv, Prima tv, Rai, Rti, Sky, Telecom Italia Media, Ordine dei giornalisti and Federazione italiana editori di giornali. By this Code all sport information leading actors, express their strong opposition to violence in stadium, well aware that means of mass communications, from usual to new media, could be useful to condemn publicly violence in all sport events, particularly in soccer. The Code imposes instructions just in radio and television broadcastings hosting where, in case of infringments, the entertainer immediately detaches the tv broadcasting and provider from the event while resorting to required means, i.e. break of programme, postponement of a link till the dismissal of the responsible, to bring the programme back in fairness. In case of recorded programmes, tv broadcasting and providers are committed to check them proviously, hampering the broadcasting of events which infringes the ?Media and Sport Code?.

Full post as published by Internet Law - Copyright Law on November 21, 2007 (boomark / email).