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NORWEGIAN MEDIA LAW RESOURCES

1. GENERAL LAW RESOURCES

The best website for researching in Norwegian statutes and regulations is:

http://www.lovdata.no/info/lawdata.html

Here you will find Statutes in force, repealed statutes, Parliamentary Decisions, Central and Local Regulations, Legal Gazettes etc. There is also a link for Court Decisions, but only the last 6 months are available for free.

Information from government and ministries with links to white papers, propositions, official Norwegian reports, legislation etc, is also available on the website:

http://odin.dep.no/odin/english/bn.html

Law Libraries at universities in Norway have collected general law resources on a website for Norwegian scholars. A lot of information is available in English, for instance there is a link to translated Norwegian laws.

http://juridisk.net/english/

A variety of law information will also be found on the joint internet venture of The Norwegian Bar Association, The Norwegian Association of Lawyers and Centre for Continuing Legal Education:

http://www.jus.no/?id=75

2. MEDIA LAW AND ETHICS

The Norwegian Union of Journalists has probably the most useful website on Norwegian Media Law and Ethics:

http://www.nj.no/English/

Here you will find links to the Code of Ethics of the Norwegian Press, to rights and duties of the editor, Agreements on copyright, Statutes of the Norwegian Union of Journalists and debates concerning questions of media regulation at the moment.

The Code of Ethics of the Norwegian press is also available in English on this website:

http://www.presse.no/Vær%20Varsom%20English.htm

The Norwegian Press Association (Norsk Presseforbund) nor the Norwegian Press Complaints Commission (Pressens Faglige Utvalg) do not have English language pages on their websites.

The Norwegian Media Authority is an administrative instance, monitoring the Norwegian statutes concerning media ownership and market regulation, and has some information in English on the following website:

http://medietilsynet.no/english/

3. BROADCASTING AND NEWSPAPERS

The NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) is Norway's major broadcasting institution with nine radio channels and two TV channels http://www.nrk.no/informasjon/about_the_nrk/

NRK is a Public Service Broadcaster.

Ethical programme guidelines at NRK will be found at this site:

http://www.nrk.no/informasjon/about_the_nrk/234986.html

The main commercial TV station in Norway is TV2, but at the time being TV2 has no English website, but they have news in English on this site: http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/english/

Main newspapers in Norway are

VG  http://vginfoeng.vg.no/

Dagbladet http://www.dagbladet.no/annonseweb/english_start.html

Dagens Naeringsliv (business) http://avis.dn.no/annonse/english/

Aftenposten http://www.aftenposten.no/english/

4. MEDIA RESOURCES

The Norwegian Institute of Journalism (www.ij.no) is a knowledge and resource centere for media practitioners. English website is available: http://www.ij.no/omij/aboutij.htm

Nordic Media Research in general will be found on this website:

http://www.nordicom.gu.se/eng.php?portal=about&main=