Law on the Media No. 01/NA, dated 25 July 2008 10 of 13 http://www.laoservicesportal.gov.la/index.php?r=site/displaylegal&id=92 The broadcasting program and pictures of the Lao media shall produce and put on air from the territory of the Lao PDR. In the event that there is a purpose to broadcast such program in foreign counties it shall obtain the authorization from the concerned media supervision organization. The broadcasting program and pictures of foreign counties that there is a purpose to put on air in the Lao PDR shall obtain the authorization from the government of the Lao PDR. Article 46.Use of Media through Internet The use, services through the internet shall coordinate and obtain the authorization from the competent concerned organization including to strictly implement laws and regulations. Article 47.Duplication of media’s Products All types of media’s products shall reserve the copyright, be duplicated and shall keep in good condition at least for a period of twenty five years. Article 48.Press Release Conference’s arrangement The organization and individual wishing to arrange a press release conference on some issues shall obtain the authorization from the media’s supervision organization after having coordination and the consent from the concerned organization. Article 49.Finance of the Media’s Organization The finance of the state’s media’s organization is supported by the state’s budget, academic income, the assistance from sponsors, individuals and organizations within the country and from overseas. The media’s organization can correctly and appropriately establish a fund for development of the media in compliance with laws and regulations on the Finance. The management and the use of money, the fund of the state’s media organization are regulated in a specific regulation in consistency with the Law on State’s Budget and other concerned laws. The media’s organization has the right to conduct business and provide some services according to its possibilities and in compliance with laws and regulations in order to create an additional income for its own development. Chapter VII Prohibitions Article 50.Prohibitions to the Media’s Organization Prohibitions to the media’s organization include: 1. It is prohibited to incite, promote the acts that create the damages to the benefits of the nation and the population; 2. It is prohibited to disclose the secret of the nation and the official confidentiality; 3. It is prohibited to divide the solidarity and the revenge between the multi-ethnics and the solidarity between nations; 4. It is prohibited to promote the use of violence and the propagation to serve all types of invasion wars; 5. It is prohibited to release news to distort the reality touching to the dignity of organizations and individuals; 6. It is prohibited to propagate, to incite and promote commission of crime and misfortune: narcotic addicted, gambling, hooliganism, an act of indecency; 7. It is prohibited to propagate to promote alcoholic drinks, blind belief and other negative phenomena; 8. It is prohibited to publish news, texts and program that have been ordered to forbid or be already seized; 9. Other prohibitions as provided in laws and regulations. Article 51.Prohibitions for Media’s personnel It is prohibited to reporters, contributors, media technicians to create all types of information that breach the ethics of Lao reporters, use the half breed language, and use the rude words including other prohibitions to media’s organization as provided in article 50 of this law. For the speaker, master of ceremonies, it is prohibited to wear impolite dress during the on air time on television. Article 52.Prohibitions for Organizations and other Individuals Prohibitions for organizations and other individuals are as follows: 1. It is prohibited to obstruct the activities of the reporter and interfere the lawful contents of the news, texts and programs; 2. It is prohibited to obstruct the production and dissemination of all types of lawful media’s products; 3. It is prohibited to produce, import and disseminate the media’s products without obtaining the authorization; 4. It is prohibited to bribe reporters or media’s organization to release news, texts according to their thinking; 5. It is prohibited to use the violence, oppress, threat, libel, defamation, gross insult, use rudeness to reporters or media’s organizations; 6. Other prohibitions as provided by laws and regulations. Chapter VIII Administration and Inspection of the Media Article 53.Media’s Administration Organization The government administrate the media in centralized and uniform manner in the entire country by assigning to the Ministry of Information and Culture to directly coordinate with ministries, other concerned sectors and the local administrative authorities in the administration of the media, the 25/09/2018, 14:25