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In February, all the parties in the Bundestag (Parliament) agreed on a common Bill that makes unauthorised and secret filming a punishable offence. In a corresponding amendment of the Strafgesetzbuch (Criminal Code - StGB), the protection of privacy will be increased as the existing ban on sound recordings is replaced with the new rule. Anybody who, without permission, takes or transmits pictures of another person in their home or places that are not directly visible to the public, will be liable to punishment. Such actions will be deemed to be unauthorised unless the person pictured has given...

In a recently published judgment, the Oberlandesgericht Köln (Cologne Appeal Court - OLG) decided in a dispute between a photographer (plaintiff) and the commissioner of a photograph (defendant) that the latter was not entitled under current copyright law (Art. 60 of the Gesetz über Urheberrecht und verwandte Schutzrechte (Act on Copyright and Related Rights - UrhG)) to disseminate a photograph on the Internet without the photographer's consent. On the instructions of a publishing firm, the plaintiff had taken photographs of the managing director of the defendant, a limited company (GmbH), to...

On 27 January 2004 the Conference of Directors of the Regional Media Authorities (DLM) dealt with questions concerning the acceptability of a so-called survival show (" Ich bin ein Star ­ Holt mich hier raus! " "I'm a Celebrity ­ Get Me Out of Here!"), in which "celebrities" were put in a camp in the jungle and required to perform certain unpleasant tasks. Viewers voted to decide who was to leave the camp and be eliminated from the competition. Immediately broadcasting of the show started, the Regional Media Authorities had asked the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for the Protection...

On 9 December 2003, the Regional Media Authorities published the second report on media concentration by the Kommission zur Ermittlung der Konzentration im Medienbereich (Media Concentration Commission ­ KEK). Under section 26 of the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (the Agreement between the Federal States on Broadcasting ­ RStV), a report of this kind must be published every three years. Section 26, paragraph 6 of the RStV provides that the report must contain, in particular, comments concerning the integration between television and other media-related markets (e.g. broadcasting rights or the markets...

At its meeting of 27 January 2004 the Conference of Directors of the Regional Media Authorities (Direktorkonferenz der Landesmedienanstalten ­ DLM) adopted a common stance for two international conferences in May 2004 and the year 2006, during which the broadcasting frequencies currently being used, among other things, for analogue terrestrial television are due to be reallocated. The working party given the task of elaborating a common German stance under the chairmanship of the Federal Ministry of the Economy and Employment had agreed on its conclusions in December 2003. In its report the DLM...