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Refine your searchIRIS 2002-9:1/12 [DE] MTV “Freak Show” Endangering Minors | |
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In two emergency rulings, the Verwaltungsgericht München (Munich Administrative Court - VG München) had to determine the degree to which the "Freak Show" programme broadcast by music channel MTV and based on the American programme "Jackass" constituted a danger to minors. The relevant supervisory body, the Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien (Bavarian New Media Office - BLM), had banned the repeat showing of six programmes which had already been broadcast and were deemed to be obviously capable of seriously endangering minors. It had also restricted the showing of further episodes to the... |
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IRIS 2002-8:1/25 [DE] Federal Supreme Court Rules on Electronic Press Reviews | |
In a decision of general principle, the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court - BGH) has ruled that the socalled "press review privilege" described in Section 49.1 of the Gesetz über Urheberrechte und verwandte Schutzrechte (Act on Copyright and Related Rights - UrhG) also applies to electronic press reviews under certain conditions. This means that, if those conditions are met, the copyright collecting company Wort (VG Wort) may also demand the statutory fees from publishers of electronic press reviews. The plaintiff in the legal dispute to which the judgment referred was a daily newspaper,... |
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IRIS 2002-8:1/11 [DE] Consequences of Cable Digitisation for Analogue Channels Under Discussion | |
At the end of July, the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin (Berlin Administrative Court - VG) issued an important decision concerning the switch-over to digital broadcasting. Its ruling contains guidelines on how users might be expected to keep up with technical advances in relation to the switch from analogue to digital transmission. The dispute between the European cultural channel ARTE and the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (BerlinBrandenburg Media Authority - MABB) concerned the broadcaster's right to analogue transmission capacity within the broadband cable network for its afternoon programmes which... |
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IRIS 2002-8:1/10 [DE] Youth Protection Rulings | |
In a ruling published at the end of June 2002, the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin (Berlin Administrative Court - VG Berlin) gave its opinion on, inter alia, the expertise and pluralist structure of the Gemeinsame Stelle Jugendschutz und Programm der Landesmedienanstalten (Joint Body for Youth Protection and Programmes of the Regional Media Authorities - GSJP), the Medienrat (Media Council) of the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (Berlin-Brandenburg Media Authority - MABB) and the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Fernsehen (Voluntary Self-Regulatory Authority for Television - FSF). The case concerned an application... |
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IRIS 2002-8:1/9 [DE] Surreptitious Advertising Acquittal Quashed | |
The Oberlandesgericht Celle (Celle High Court of Appeal - OLG) recently quashed the decision by the Amtsgericht Hannover (Hannover District Court - AG) to acquit "Big Brother" producer Endemol Entertainment Productions GmbH (Endemol) on the charge of surreptitious advertising. It referred the case for review. The Niedersächsische Landesmedienanstalt (Lower Saxony Regional Media Authority -NLM) had fined Endemol because its then managing director had deliberately broadcast surreptitious advertising. During the live broadcast in question by RTL Television GmbH (RTL), advertising rules had been... |