Germany

[DE] INFOSAT publication of the right of reception

IRIS 1996-9:1/27

Ad van Loon

European Audiovisual Observatory

In IRIS 1996-7: 15, IRIS reported on a recent publication on the freedom of reception under French and European law. Now we can report that in the September issue of the German language magazine INFOSAT, an article was published on the freedom of reception in Germany. The article is based on a decision of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court) of 9 February 1994 (1 BvR 1687/92, see : NJW 1994 Heft 17) on the right of a foreign inhabitant to receive broadcasts from his native country and focusses on the right of reception of tenants vis à vis owners.