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The Kirch group which, together with the Swiss marketing company ISL, owns the broadcasting rights for the 2002 and 2006 football World Cups, has lodged a complaint against the European Commission. The European Court of Justice must therefore rule on the Commission's decision to approve the provisions of the United Kingdom's Broadcasting Act 1996, as amended by the Television Broadcasting Regulations 2000, and the ITC Code on Sports and Other Listed Events, which were designed to transpose Article 3a of the "Television without Frontiers" Directive (see IRIS 2000-3: 8). The Commission's approval...

In a judgment of 8 November 2000, the first chamber of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court) overturned rulings by the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court - BGH), which had prohibited the appellant, a press firm, from printing three advertisements for the Benetton company. The BGH had deemed the advertisements, which contained images of child labour, a duck covered in oil and an HIV carrier, to be immoral on the grounds that the portrayal of serious human and animal suffering was likely to arouse feelings of sympathy which were being exploited without good reason for...

In December 2000, the Direktorenkonferenz der Landesmedienanstalten (Congress of Land Media Authority Directors - DLM) issued a statement on the European Commission's proposals for a new regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services. The Proposal for a Directive on a Common Regulatory Framework (COM (2000) 393 final) aims, in view of the convergence phenomenon, to create a common regulatory framework for all electronic communications networks and services. The Proposal for a Directive on Access (COM (2000) 384 final) seeks to secure the further development of the electronic...

Sports rights agency SportA, acting for the public service broadcasters Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Rundfunkanstalten Deutschlands (ARD) and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) has concluded a new television contract with the governing bodies of 32 different sports. Under the new deal, the broadcasters can report on the sports concerned (which do not include football) until 2006. They will enjoy exclusive global broadcasting rights, which will also cover transmissions via the Internet. The sports bodies will no longer have to pay for television coverage, although some sports will lose their right to...

The Landesmedienanstalten (Land media authoritiesLMS), which are responsible for monitoring commercial television broadcasters, are planning to license special television channels aimed at all actual and potential customers of a specific company, ie an unlimited number of people, as "self-advertising channels". The LMS felt they needed to take this step because this new phenomenon is becoming increasingly common, combining information about the company itself with other material, which differentiates it from so-called "Business-TV". Companies use "Business-TV" purely for the internal transmission...