Broadcasting in UK Law
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Murphy v Media Protection Services Ltd
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The charges against Ms Murphy were that on 19 th August 2006 and on 25 th September 2006 she "dishonestly received a programme included in a broadcasting service provided from a place in the United Kingdom with intent to avoid payment of any charge applicable to the reception of the programme".
The question is to be answered by identifying what is said to be the "programme included in a broadcasting service", then determining where that broadcasting service is provided from. In the present case, there is no doubt that the core of the transmissions received by Ms Murphy, the visual images and the ambient sound of the matches themselves, was transmitted for simultaneous reception by members of the public and was capable of being lawfully received by them from BSkyB.
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R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Brind
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But where Parliament has conferred on the executive an administrative discretion without indicating the precise limits within which it must be exercised, to presume that it must be exercised within Convention limits would be to go far beyond the resolution of an ambiguity.
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Pro-Life Alliance v BBC
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Nevertheless the European Court of Human Rights unanimously found an infringement of Article 10, mainly (it seems) because of the monopoly positions enjoyed in Switzerland by a single public broadcasting corporation and a single company controlling television commercials. The judgment does not, with respect, give full or clear reasons for what seems to be a far-reaching conclusion.
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Youview TV Ltd v Total Ltd
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Mr Malynicz pointed to the Nice Classification, Ninth Edition. He did so not in order to construe what "telecommunications services" meant in his clients' specification, recognising that would be impermissible. Instead he drew attention to the explanatory note to show that as a matter of language, telecommunications could include both telephony, data message transmission and radio and television.
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R (on the application of ProLife Alliance) v British Broadcasting Corporation
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The great majority are performed on the third of the five permitted grounds under the Abortion Act 1967 as amended: that is that the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman.
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R v Broadcasting Standards Commission, ex parte British Broadcasting Corporation
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To my mind the privacy of a human being denotes at the same time the personal "space" in which the individual is free to be itself, and also the carapace, or shell, or umbrella, or whatever other metaphor is preferred, which protects that space from intrusion. An infringement of privacy is an affront to the personality, which is damaged both by the violation and by the demonstration that the personal space is not inviolate.
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Reinventing the Market? Competition and Regulatory Change in Broadcasting
The reforms instituted by the Broadcasting Act 1990 led to a period of turbulence and upheaval within broadcasting with results that were at best unintended and, at worst, seriously undermined the ...
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Guidelines for an Independent Regulatory Framework for Commonwealth Broadcasting Organisations
Introduction. Independent regulation. Creation and Remit. Appointments and termination. Funding. Accountability. Secretariat Proposal. An independent public service broadcaster ("PSBS"). Creation a...
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Trade Union Mergers in British and Australian Television Broadcasting
A complex set of forces facing trade union organizations has meant that union restructuring vis‐à‐vis merger activity has been a prominent feature of many Western labour movements in the 1980s and ...
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BROADCASTING AND TEAM SPORTS
Television rights are the largest component of revenues for major sports in large, rich nations. Among these nations, the market structure for rights varies due to different competition policies to...
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MEDIA INTELLIGENCE, DECEMBER 2012: TELEVISION & BROADCASTING
Repost from a bulletin from the Media & Sport Group at DLA Piper TELEVISION & BROADCASTING Trade marks and passing-off in internet broadcasting In a court-ordered expedited trial the High Court con...
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Eleven Sports challenges football ‘Blackout’ by broadcasting La Liga games
Eleven Sports, the global sports provider, has contravened UEFA rules, which prohibit live coverage of football in the UK between 14:45 and 17:15 on Saturdays by broadcasting Barcelona’s La Liga fi...
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