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According to Section 4 of the so-called DW-Gesetz (DW Act), Deutsche Welle (DW), the radio and television broadcaster established under federal law to provide broadcasting services abroad, must offer a comprehensive picture of German political, cultural and economic life to viewers and listeners outside Germany. In order to fulfil this task, DW, a public broadcasting company, has for several years been stepping up its efforts to provide a more comprehensive and interesting service at a reasonable cost, by working together with other German public service broadcasters. Practical cooperation is...

In mid-May, the Saarland regional government published a draft Media Bill which, for the first time in the history of German media legislation, would establish a single regulatory framework for the press, broadcasting and new media. The Bill aims to create a legal framework which emphasises the freedom of all mass media to fulfil their public duties, to lay down common minimum standards for the protection of important social values (particularly human dignity) and interests (mainly the protection of minors and consumers), to promote self-regulation by the media and media supervisory bodies as...

On 17 May 2001, Germany and France signed a treaty in Cannes on the provision of support for co-produced films (the so-called “Mini-Treaty”), which entered into force on 23 November 2001 (see IRIS 2004-10:Extra). This was the basis for the establishment of a Franco-German co-production fund, which has an annual budget of EUR three million and to which France and Germany have equal access. Since then, the number of Franco-German co-productions has risen considerably. Whereas between 1994 and 1999 the figure was between one and five films per year, it jumped sharply after the signing of the Mini-Treaty....

By granting national broadcasting licences to three so-called self-advertising TV channels, the Direktorenkonferenz der Landesmedienanstalten (Conference of Directors of the Land Media Authorities - DLM) has declared that Telekom-TV, Sparkassen-TV and Bahn-TV are not in breach of German media law. While Telekom-TV and Sparkassen-TV broadcast a mixture of self-advertising programmes and material from n-tv, available only on the premises of the companies concerned and their customers, Bahn-TV is planning to show purely self-advertising content. All three channels are classified under media law as...

The long-standing legal dispute between the Verband privater Kabelnetzbetreiber (Union of Private Cable Network Operators - ANGA) and pay-TV broadcaster Premiere over fees for carrying the analog TV channel has been settled out of court. Under the terms of the settlement, Premiere is obliged to withdraw its appeal to the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court - BGH) against a decision of the Hanseatische Oberlandesgericht (Hanseatic Court of Appeal - OLG Hamburg) and a complaint it lodged with the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court). Premiere has also agreed to reimburse...