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In its judgment of 25 November 2020, the Administrative Court of Cologne (Case No. 6 K 2650/22) confirmed that streams that are broadcast live on the Twitch platform are to be classified as broadcasting and must comply with the relevant regulations for broadcasters on the protection of minors in the media. In 2021, the plaintiff had broadcast the first eight minutes of the film Mortal Kombat on his live stream on the Twitch platform. This sequence contained fight scenes and depictions of violence that are not suitable for children and young people under the age of 16. The clip was shown before...

The Düsseldorf Administrative Court upheld urgent applications by Aylo Freesites Ltd (the Applicant) in four decisions (Case Nos. 27 L 1347/24, 27 L 1348/24, 27 L 1349/24 and 27 L 1350/24) dated 19 November 2025. The court ordered that the blocking orders issued by the State Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM NRW) against Internet access providers (access providers) with regard to the German-language telemedia offers Pornhub and Youporn operated by the Applicant are not to be enforced for the time being. This means that access to the pornographic content in question by the access...

The Higher Administrative Court (OVG) for the state of Schleswig-Holstein confirmed the decision of the lower court in summary proceedings on 18 December 2025 (Case No. 6 MB 24/25), according to which Facebook users are currently not sufficiently informed about the central criteria according to which content is displayed on the platform. The media law complaint issued by the Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein Media Authority in October 2024 and the requirement for transparency information to be easily viewed, directly accessible and permanently available in accordance with the Interstate Media Treaty...

In its judgement of 11 November 2025 (case no. 42 O 14139/24), the Landgericht München I (Munich Regional Court I – LG) ruled that the memorisation of linguistic works in AI language models, both when they were processed in the model and when they were delivered to the user in response to a corresponding prompt, constituted an act of reproduction within the meaning of copyright law. Although reproduction during the creation of training data material fell under the limitation of text and data mining, this did not apply to the process of training the model itself. As a consequence, the...

On 22 October 2025, the Rundfunkkommission (Broadcasting Commission) of the federal states adopted key points for a reform of the Medienstaatsvertrag (state media treaty – MStV), the aim of which is to safeguard the communication-related foundations of a free and democratic society in Germany. The new Digitale Medien-Staatsvertrag (digital media state treaty – DMStV) focuses on strengthening content providers and refinancing of journalistic offerings, guaranteeing free communication spaces, organising effective supervision, enabling economic growth and safeguarding diversity of opinion. The...