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The Hamburg Institute for New Media (HAM) has objected to some jingle-based advertisements shown on the MTV 2 Pop programme. By broadcasting twelve jingle-based adverts on this programme between 6 am and 8 pm MTV Networks violated Youth Protection provisions. What is objectionable, according to the decision of the HAM, is that the broadcast adverts encouraged children and young people to make a purchase, such encouragement exploiting their lack of experience and gullibility. In accordance with § 6 paragraph 2 of the Youth Media Protection State Agreement (JMStV), advertising may not contain any...

With the Munich 1 District Court’s ruling of 13^th September 2006, Bavarian broadcasting as well as the production company Infafilm Gmbh have been banned from making use of the cartoon figure Pumuckl without the express admission of the rights of its creator. Indeed the creator of Pumuckl had in 1978 granted the right to the production company of using the figure for the creation of a television series of 30-minute long episodes. In following productions however, such as the first feature film or the use of the figure on the Internet and on corporate stationery, the court established...

On 2 August 2006 the District Court of Cologne confirmed the fundamental legality of charging for retransmission of television programmes to bedrooms in a hotel. The plaintiff in the underlying legal dispute runs a hotel in which she transmits programme signals received via cable through the cellar to her distributor, amplifies them and distributes them to the hotel rooms. She additionally offered both hotel information and videos via the television sets. The programmes were transmitted under a cable connection contract between the plaintiff and a cable operator, under which the right was granted...

According to its Director General, Markus Schächter, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), one of the public service broadcasters in Germany, has achieved many of the objectives it laid down in its programming plan for 2004-2006. The Director General drew this conclusion in his report on the broadcaster's efforts to meet the objectives it set for itself, submitted to the ZDF- Fernsehrat ( ZDF Television Council) in Saarbrücken. According to the provisions of the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag, ZDF , the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (association...

No final decision has yet been taken on the future of advertising for private betting services in Germany. In a ruling of 28 March 2006, the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court - BVerfG ) had decided that, in its current form, the state's sports betting monopoly in the Bundesland of Bavaria was incompatible with the Grundgesetz (Basic Law) (see IRIS 2006-6:8). According to subsequent BVerfG decisions of 4 July 2006 (case no. 1 BvR 138/05) and 2 August 2006 (case no. 1 BvR 2677/04), the same applied to the state's sports betting monopolies in Baden-Württemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia....