MEDIA LAW REPORT

Ownership and Management of Mass Media

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Presidential Decree No. 1018

Limiting the ownership and management of Mass Media to the citizens of the Philippines and for other purposes.

Section 1
Mass Media print media of communication.

Broadcast Medium of Communication

Section 2
Ownership and management shall be limited to citizens of the Philippines, or to corporations or associations wholly owned and manage by such citizens.

Section 3
Any foreigner or alien residing in the Philippines and any foreign corporation doing business in the Philippines who prints or publishes, or causes to be printed or published, abroad any newspaper, magazine, periodical or other publication but circulates or causes the circulation of the same in the Philippines shall be covered by or be subject to the provisions of this Decree.

Section 4
Any person who publishes a newspaper, magazine, periodical or other publication abroad and desires to circulate it in the Philippines shall do so through a Filipino citizen or a firm or association wholly owned or controlled by citizens of the Philippines, and the said distributor shall be responsible for compliance with any requirements of Philippine law, rules or regulations and be liable for any criminal or civil action against the publication.

Section 5
Violation of the provisions of this decree shall subject the person or corporation guilty of such violation to cancellation of its permit. In addition, any person found guilty of violating this Decree shall be punished by imprisonment of from six (6) months to five (5) years or a fine of Ten Thousand (P10,000) Pesos, or both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the Court.

If the violation is committed by a corporation, the penalty shall be imposed on the officers or employees thereof who were responsible for or who committed the violation.

Section 6
All laws, decrees, orders, instructions and rules and regulations inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

However, PROVISIONS WERE MADE.

General Provision of the 1987 Philippine Constitution

1) The ownership and management of mass media shall be limited to citizens of the Philippines, or to corporations, cooperatives or associations, wholly-owned and managed by such citizens.

The Congress shall regulate or prohibit monopolies in commercial mass media when the public interest so requires. No combinations in restraint of trade or unfair competition therein shall be allowed.

(2) The advertising industry is impressed with public interest, and shall be regulated by law for the protection of consumers and the promotion of the general welfare.

Only Filipino citizens or corporations or associations at least seventy per centum of the capital of which is owned by such citizens shall be allowed to engage in the advertising industry.

The participation of foreign investors in the governing body of entities in such industry shall be limited to their proportionate share in the capital thereof, and all the executive and managing officers of such entities must be citizens of the Philippines.

Lawsuit against TV5

In December 2008, GMA Network Inc., Citynet Television, and ZOE Broadcasting Network filed a lawsuit against the management of TV5, alleging MPB Primedia Inc. (a subsidiary of Media Prima Berhad, a Malaysian company, which entered a block time agreement withAssociated Broadcasting Company to sell the airtime of TV5) of violating Article XVI, Section 3, of the 1987 Philippine Constitution.[44]

GMA Network Inc. argues restriction of foreign entities to operate and owns a Filipino company especially on broadcast media. GMA Network Inc. disputes MPB Media Inc. that it was established to skirt the anti-dummy laws and entering into an unlawful block time deal
Source: Wikipedia.org

QUESTIONS TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

Question 1
What section is this?
Ownership and management shall be limited to citizens of the Philippines, or to corporations or associations wholly owned and manage by such citizens.

Answer: SECTION 2 of PD No. 1018

Question 2
In Section 5 of PD No. 1018 states that imprisonment of from ____ months to _____ years or a fine of _______ Pesos, or both

ANSWER: SIX (6) months to FIVE (5) years, Ten Thousand Pesos

Question 3
What year was the PD No. 1018 revised?
Answer: 1987

CURRENT TRENDS IN MEDIA

GLOBAL SOCIAL MEDIA TRENDS
1.SOCIAL NETWORKS 2. BLOGGING 3. MOBILE

MEDIA CONGLOMERATES Company that owns large numbers of companies in various mass media such as television, radio, publishing ,movies and the internet.

CONCENTRATION ON MEDIA OWNERSHIP

A process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing share of the mass media.

MERGERS
Result of one media related company buying another company for control of their resources in order to increase revenues and viewership.