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According to press reports, the head of the State Chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Land in overall charge of the discussions, has announced that at their mid-September 2008 meeting the heads of the State and Senate chancelleries agreed on solutions to the outstanding issues concerning the implementation of the compromise with the European Commission. These solutions are to be incorporated into the 12. Rundfunkänderungsstaatsvertrag (12th Inter-State Broadcasting Agreement – RÄStV). In talks with Commission representatives on 16 September 2008, these outline proposals were then clarified...

Lottery tickets and sweets do not have to be kept separate after all. Reports had stated that lottery tickets and sweets had to be kept separate from one another in future according to a decision by the Berlin Landgericht (Regional Court – LG) in connection with an application for an injunction against the lottery organiser Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin (DKLB). However, this decision was set aside in its entirety following the latter’s appeal lodged on 7 October 2008. The original decision of 7 August 2008 (Case 103 O 134/08) stated that the lottery ticket counter should not be together with,...

The Cologne Landgericht (Regional Court – LG), in a decision of 2 September 2008, and the Düsseldorf LG, in a decision of 12 September 2008, are the first German courts to reach decisions on the new right to copyright information enshrined in section 101(9) of the Urheberrechtsgesetz (Copyright Act, – UrhG). This right has existed since 1 September 2008 and implements Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights. The applicant for an injunction in both cases was a company that possesses rights in sound recordings. Some of these recordings were illegally distributed over...

In its recently published annual report, jugendschutz.net, the body founded in 1997 by the Youth Ministers of the Bundesländer to monitor youth protection on the Internet and which is attached to the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for the Protection of Young People in the Media), reported a record number of infringements of youth protection laws on the Internet in 2007. The organisation reported a total of 2,883 infringements, 10% more than in the previous year. Most of the infringements were committed on pornographic and extreme right-wing Internet sites. However, social networking...

On 1 September 2008, the Zehnte Rundfunkänderungsstaatsvertrag (10th Agreement Amending the Inter-State Broadcasting Agreement - 10. RÄStV) entered into force in all 16 German Bundesländer . In particular, the new Agreement provides for the restructuring of media supervision in the Länder (Art. 35 ff. of the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag – Inter-State Broadcasting Agreement – RStV) as well as new access rules and rules for platform operators (Art. 50 ff. RStV). It also includes new rules on the organisation of competitions (Art. 8a RStV). Under Art. 35 para. 2 nos. 1 and 7 RStV, the licensing of private...