3) when recording various public actions – meetings, marches, strikes, pickets, etc. – may not
instigate to take unlawful or desperate actions;
4) may not publish unfounded, unchecked accusations which are not based on facts;
5) must protect and respect a person’s right to privacy in the event of death or disease, must not
mention personal data when announcing the news about suicides or suicide attempts;
6) may not promote or depict smoking, drinking or the use of narcotic drugs in an attractive manner.
Depiction of smoking, drinking or drug addiction shall be justified only as a context when seeking
authenticity;
7) may not disseminate biased and partial information about religion, may not discriminate against
other religions;
8) must clearly introduce religious organisations and their views to avoid misleading people;
9) may not promote supernatural, unreal characteristics of people or their groups or paranormal
phenomena, with the exception of cases where such information is presented for entertainment or as a
research object. They may not create an impression that astrologers, chiromancers, clairvoyants and
bioenergetics specialists can provide advice on the future, health, money, etc.
Article 23. Journalists and their Relations with Producers and Disseminators of Public
Information
1. The producer of public information must have the rules of procedure and/or internal code of
ethics. At least one of these documents approved by the producer of public information must establish the
rights, duties and responsibility and official relations of journalists as well as the protection of journalists
against the possible restrictions of his rights.
2. Regardless of whether a journalist is linked with a producer of public information by employment
relations, the producer of public information must agree with the journalist in writing as to the use of the
journalist’s copyrighted work. Such an agreement shall also be considered a collective agreement drawn up
between the producer of public information or an organisation representing him and journalists or an
organisation representing them, laying down the conditions of use of the journalists’ copyrighted works. If
the producer of public information who uses a copyrighted work of the journalist has not agreed upon it with
the journalist in writing and is not a party to the collective agreement, the producer of public information
shall not be exempt from an obligation to remunerate fairly for the used copyrighted work of the journalist.
3. The professional and legal status of journalists and their social guarantees shall be laid down in
this Law and other laws of the Republic of Lithuania.
Article 24. Data on Participants of Legal Persons who Are Publishers of Local, Regional and
National Newspapers and Magazines or Managers of the Information Society Media
1. Legal persons who are publishers of local, regional and national newspapers and magazines or
managers of the information society media, with the exception of those referred to in paragraph 6 of Article
22 of this Law, must submit to the institution authorised by the Government in the field of provision of
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