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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...

The RTL group has purchased audio rights to the football Bundesliga (national football league) for its Internet service. Match coverage will be taken from a webpage hosted since February 2000 by Internet Service Provider Altus Analytics AG in accordance with the instructions of the Deutscher Fußball-Bund (German Football Federation - DFB). The deal was possible because the Kirch group, which owns the rights to motion picture transmissions and exclusive Internet rights to live motion picture coverage, did not acquire Internet rights for audio transmissions. The rights thus acquired by RTL cover...

On 15 February 2001, the German Bundestag (Lower House of Parliament) adopted the new Signaturgesetz (Electronic Signature Act - SigG), which was approved by the Bundesrat (Upper House of Parliament) on 9 March. Under the terms of the Act, which is designed to transpose into German law the provisions of Directive 1999/93/EC of 13 December 1999 on a Community framework for electronic signatures (see IRIS 2000-1: 5), the current 1997 Electronic Signature Act will be abolished. A key feature of the new Act is the creation of a new security infrastructure for qualified electronic signatures, which...

On 20 February 2001, the Niedersächsische Landesmedienanstalt für privaten Rundfunk (Lower Saxony Commercial Broadcasting Authority - NLM) instituted proceedings against TV production company Endemol and imposed a fine of DEM 100,000. The case was brought because, in the NLM's view, there had been a breach of the ban on surreptitious advertising contained in Section 7.6.1 of the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (Agreement between Federal States on Broadcasting - RStV) in connection with the Land media authorities' common guidelines on advertising, the separation of advertising and programme material and...