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[Has anyone seen an English-language report on this? --Declan] ********** Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 12:54:25 -0600 From: "Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer" <ralph.hoefelmeyer@wcom.com> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Declan, FYI, Ralph [forwards snipped --DBM] << start of forwarded material >> Hi I am an Italian citizen and I want send you this mail about a new law of the italian parlament about Internet in Italy. All the internet sites have to be registred and to publish news you have to be registered as a normal newspaper. So only professional journalist will write on Internet. Liberty of speech is going to die in Italy. Please help us. I can only send few link, the pages are written in italian, but if you can traslate them I think you'll find the arguments very interesting for you. http://www.interlex.it http://www.interlex.it/tlc/48.htm << end of forwarded material >> << start of forwarded material >> I would like to inform you about the new law recently approved in Italy to extend the rules for the press and periodical press to web sites and electronic press. The new law states that EVERY web site has to be considered as a press product, and it has to print the name of the publisher (or the editor) and the city where it is published (whatever this could mean). If the site includes news or is updated periodically, which would be the case of a webzine or of a site with a news section, it falls under these following laws valid for newspapers and periodical press: 1) it has to declare a responsible managing editor, that has to be enlisted in the professional Order of Journalists 2) it has to pay a tax (of about 200$) 3) it has to be registered in the lists of the tribunal of the city where it is published. If you could do something to publish this shameful situation it may be very useful. Here you can find the entire text of the law (sorry, it's in Italian): http://www.interlex.it/testi/l01_62.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------