Mise à jour : 17 septembre 2012 (Rédaction initiale : 13 septembre 2012 )

Sur le vif

The creator of Wikileads, Julian Assange, has been the subject of a documentary which was screened on British television Channel 4, in which he is seen dancing in a night club. Believing that there is a violation of his privacy, he seized the British media regulator, Ofcom. The latter, by a decision of 10 September 2010, rejected the complaint, based not so much on the argument that it is a public place and that the image has already been circulated but rather the plaintiff has been associated with the development of documentary and he could give additional facts or contradictory arguments to those gathered by the channel. Is measured here that could be the office of a controller wich supports both the regulation of content and container.

Mise à jour : 17 juillet 2012 (Rédaction initiale : 10 juillet 2012 )

Sur le vif

The regulator of telecommunications and media in United Kingdom (Ofcom) published on, June 6, 2012 a report to measure media pluralism. In response, the State Secretary Jeremy Hunt writes on June 18 letter to the chairman of Ofcom, Colette Bow, for him make comments, astonishments, suggestions and remind him of the prerogatives of the Secretary of State in the matter. The set is made with the friendliness that fits between friends that are written and signed by their first names, formulas are in conditional tense in being enveloped in a respectful classicism, which is the form taken by the confrontation between the executive and the regulator. Tension is always high, whatever form it takes, when it comes to media.

Mise à jour : 15 mai 2012 (Rédaction initiale : 11 mai 2012 )

Sur le vif

On May 4, 2012, Ofcom announced the award of four new community radio licences for services in the south west of England. Community raido service are provided on a not-profit basis focusing on the delivery of specific social benefits tot a particular geographical community or a community of interest. The new awards mean that 251 community radio licences have been awordes for four services in Cornwall and Devon. Some radio services are about health thematics or weillbeing and lifestyle topics, others provide community radio services, for example to villages.

Mise à jour : 9 mai 2012 (Rédaction initiale : 3 mai 2012 )

Sur le vif

The press and television Murdoch group is sued for getting information in an illicit manner, by violating the privacy of personalities, having established connections within the police in order to be informed, etc. Concerning, the television media, activity can be practised because of the prior allocation of a broadcasting license by the regulator. However, the British regulator Ofcom, said April 24, 2012 that he was studying the question of whether the operator could maintain its license in view of the findings made during the parliamentary investigation establishing phone tapping fixed by it.