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The Kommission für Zulassung und Aufsicht (Licensing and Monitoring Commission - ZAK) has imposed fines totalling EUR 52,000 on several television stations for breaches of the new rules adopted by the Landesmedienanstalten (State Media Authorities) in respect of game shows and competitions (“the GWS rules”). In addition, several proceedings for regulatory offences have been initiated. The GWS rules of 23 February 2009 - in amplification of section 8a of the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (Inter-State Broadcasting Agreement - RStV) - were the first detailed set of provisions on game shows (see IRIS 2009-3:...

The Verwaltungsgericht München (Munich Administrative Court) has endorsed in several decisions the view of the Bayerische Landeszentrale für Neue Medien (Bavarian Centre for New Media - BLM) and the Kommission für den Jugendschutz in den Medien (Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media - KJM) that TV programmes in which plastic surgery is marketed for entertainment purposes can have an adverse effect on the development of children and young people. The decisions were in response to appeals by the channel MTV against decisions of the BLM permitting the broadcasting of several episodes...

In a dispute concerning the marketing model for the German football league, the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Court of Appeal - OLG) has dismissed on technical grounds the appeal lodged by Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH (DFL), the company responsible for the operation of the German football league, against a decision by the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office - BKartA). The background to the dispute was the plans drawn up by the DFL in the summer of 2008 for the central marketing of the television rights in Bundesliga matches. From the 2009/2010 season onwards, summaries of the Saturday...

In a judgment of 2 September 2009, the Landgericht Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Regional Court) prohibited the television broadcaster RTL from shooting film footage using a hidden camera in the applicant’s doctor’s surgery, thus upholding the injunction issued by the lower court. In the legal dispute concerned, RTL reporters had made sound and picture recordings at a doctor’s surgery, filming a conversation between the doctor and a person whom he assumed to be a patient but who was actually a reporter. They also filmed the reception area and the staircase leading to the surgery. It was claimed that the...

Since there is no federal model for funding the conversion of cinemas to digital screening (see IRIS 2009-8: 10 and IRIS 2010-1: 1), a number of German Länder have set up their own support schemes. One example is Bavaria, where in August 2009 the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (Bavarian Film and Television Fund - FFF) launched a special scheme for the comprehensive conversion to digital projection. To this end, cinema owners are to be given grants to help them invest in the necessary technical equipment and in its installation. A grant may be up to 25 % of the costs but no more than EUR 18,000 per screen. Arthouse...