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In the dispute between Dynamic Medien Vertriebs GmbH and Avides Media AG, the Landgericht Koblenz (Koblenz District Court) lodged with the ECJ on 31 May 2006 questions on the preliminary ruling under Art. 234 of the EC Treaty (Case no. C-244/06). The question referred concerns in particular whether and to what extent national provisions that make mail order sales of image storage media (DVDs, videos) dependent on their being labelled as having been examined by a national body as to their availability to young persons are incompatible with the principle of the free movement of goods. In particular,...

On 1 July 2006, German mobile telephone service providers O2 Germany, The Phone House Telecom, T-Mobile and Vodafone joined the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia-Diensteanbieter e. V. (voluntary self-monitoring body for multimedia service providers - FSM). The FSM is responsible, for example, for the self-monitoring of online content, and is part of the German co-regulatory system for the protection of young people in the audiovisual media. For the mobile phone companies that have joined the FSM, implementation of the 2005 code of conduct for mobile phone providers in Germany concerning the...

When it adopted the draft budget for 2007, the Federal Government also decided to take steps to support the German film industry. From 2007, as part of a project entitled “ Anreiz zur Stärkung der Filmproduktion in Deutschland ” (incentive to strengthen film production in Germany), the Government will provide EUR 60 million of film aid per year for the duration of the parliamentary term. Under the proposed rebate system, which is similar to the one introduced in Great Britain in April this year, film producers will be reimbursed between 15% and 20% of production costs spent in Germany. The sum...

On 28 July 2006, the Landgericht Hamburg (Hamburg District Court - LG Hamburg ) prohibited the broadcast by Westdeutsche Rundfunk (WDR) of the current version of a TV film about the Contergan scandal. In doing so, the court confirmed temporary injunctions that had previously been granted. At the end of the 1950s, thousands of women had given birth to deformed babies after taking the drug Contergan . The manufacturer of Contergan , Grünenthal GmbH , and a lawyer, whose life story is depicted in the film, had instigated proceedings against WDR and the production company Zeitsprung . The press chamber...

At the end of June 2006, a case brought before the Landgericht Hamburg (Hamburg district court) against the Internet search engine operator Google following an alleged breach of copyright ended when the Darmstadt-based Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG) - an academic organisation that functions as a publishing company - withdrew its application for a temporary injunction during oral proceedings on the advice of the court. The legal dispute followed an argument between WBG and Google concerning the scanning, reproduction and publication of book content. Last year, Google launched a project...