Secondary Stage of IT Revolution and the Legal System

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The summary of the research results are as follows.Firstly we could work on the draft for the revision of "The Modern Development of Broadcasting System", edited by Profs. Funada and Hasebe.This work is a little behind the schedule due to the changes in the circumstances surrounding the Broadcasting. Secondly, behind these changes in circumstances are the several movements leading to the amendments of Broadcasting Law.For example,(1) legal issues on NHK (2)amendments of law concerning the relaxation of the exclusion principle of massmedia concentration(3) distribution of the terrestrial digital broadcast by Internet Our co-research is targetting on the above mentioned movements.Individual research result will be disclosed and put together into one book.Prof. Hasebe is responsible for the comparison research on NHK issues with those of BBC.Concerning the relaxation of the exclusion principle of the concentration, concentration through holding company is exceptionally allowed.The Internet distribution of the terrestrial digital broadcast contains some problems, so we need more discussions.