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On 31 October 2012, the German government decided to amend the Bundesarchivgesetz (Federal Archive Act) to make it compulsory for producers and co-producers of German cinema films to register them in a Federal Archive database. The aim of this obligation to register is to safeguard the national film heritage. According to the Federal Government, films are not only economic but also cultural goods and comprehensive registration is accordingly in the overall public interest. Up to now, copies of films funded with public money have had to be deposited with federal and regional (Land) film funding...

In the late summer of 2012, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting - RBB) submitted to its statutory bodies a final report on the “Package of measures for increasing the potential number of licence payers in Berlin”. The aim is to induce those consumers of broadcasting services who possess operational radio and television sets, but have not paid the licence fee up to now, to comply with this requirement. The implementation of the package of measures was proposed in 2008 by the Kommission zur Ermittlung des Finanzbedarfs der Rundfunkanstalten (Commission for Establishing the...

The TV show “Tag des Glücks” (“Day of Luck”) run by the lottery organisation Süddeutsche Klassenlotterie (SKL) was taken off air in October 2012. This was the response of the companies involved to several decisions of the Kommission für Zulassung und Aufsicht (Licensing and Monitoring Commission - ZAK), which had criticised the show and stopped its broadcasting on several occasions in the past few years. The ZAK had repeatedly found that the programme had infringed the ban on the public advertising of gambling pursuant to section 5(3) of the Glücksspielstaatsvertrag (Inter-State Treaty on Gambling...

On 23 August 2012, the Verwaltungsgericht (Administrative Court) in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ruled that the award of third-party broadcasting time by theRhineland-Palatinate Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation (Regional Media and Communications Agency - LMK) in the case of the main broadcaster Sat.1 SatellitenFernsehen GmbH (Sat.1) was unlawful. It criticised virtually the entire selection and licensing procedure, especially owing to the failure to involve Sat.1. According to section 26(5) of the Staatsvertrag für Rundfunk und Telemedien (Inter-State Agreement on Broadcasting and Telemedia...

According to unanimous reports by the parties involved, the Verband Deutscher Drehbuchautoren (Association of German Scriptwriters - VDD), Allianz Deutscher Produzenten (German Producers’ Alliance) and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (German public service broadcaster - ZDF) have reached an agreement on the main provisions of contracts between commissioned producers and authors. The agreement is designed to bring existing contractual structures into line with the changing conditions of use in the digital world and to ensure that authors are fairly remunerated. The starting point is the selection of...