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The updated law on media in Uzbekistan has expanded the term "media" to include "Web sites in publicly available telecommunication networks". With this definition the law includes almost all Web sites that in some way can act as media sources. But local Internet experts say that this update in the definition could create potential difficulties in the functioning of certain types of Web sites, including blogs, newsfeeds, portals, electronic journals, and forums. Updates to the law again confuse Internet-based media sources with traditional media. The law states that the "production of Internet-based media" is "a single/separate issue". Does this include the first page of a Web site, which is being updated everyday? Does it count as a separate issue if only a part of the Web site is being updated? Critics complain that the terms used in the law, such as "distribution" and "content", are difficult to apply to Web sites and that overall, the particularities of Internet-based media are not considered. Therefore, this law puts Internet-based media into a situation in which considering the particularities of Internet-based media, it is impossible to fulfill all the obligations and regulations for successful registration and functioning of Web sites as Internet media resources. Also Article 2 of the law states that this law refers not only to all the locally created and resident Web sites in the republic of Uzbekistan, but also to all the foreign media sources that distribute their content on the territory of this country. That means that if a foreign media organization distributes its content on the territory of Uzbekistan its actions fall under the regulation of this law. In this context the definition of the word "distribution" remains uncertain. Source: Infocom. http://ru.infocom.uz/more.php?id=2122_0_1_80_M