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In a decision of 12 October 1999, the Hamburg Court of Appeal (Oberlandesgericht - OLG) ruled that, during the investigative stages of a television programme, there could be no justification for an injunction against the subsequent broadcast of the material gathered. The applicant wanted to prevent the defendant from broadcasting pictures of his house and interviews with tenants. However, the Court decided that the film in question was raw material which needed to be processed by the programme editor. It was still unclear whether and to what extent the aforementioned pictures would be used in...

In a ruling of 14 September 1999, the Bremen Higher Administrative Court (Oberverwaltungsgericht - OVG) upheld the regulations and practice of cable allocation in the Bremen Bundesland. At the end of 1997, the Bremen Land Media Authority (Landesmedienanstalt), in accordance with the Bremen Land Media Act (Bremisches LandesmediengesetzBremLMG) had approved a cable allocation system which set out, in order of preference, all channels which were to be included in the cable network. Such a system is only implemented if the available cable capacity is insufficient to accommodate all channels requiring...

In a decision of 25 November 1999, the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht - BVerfG) overturned two court rulings which a private television broadcaster had complained were unconstitutional. The courts concerned had banned the broadcaster from showing a particular film. A further appeal against a ruling which had permitted the broadcast, however, was rejected. Each case concerned a film about the murder of several soldiers in Lebach in January 1969. The two main offenders responsible for the murders had taken court action to prevent the programme being broadcast. Whereas the...

The Versammlung der Landeszentrale für private Rundfunkveranstalter Rheinland-Pfalz (the Rhine-Palatinate Assembly of private broadcasting organisations - LPR) objected to two TV films shown by SAT 1 which, in view of their linkage of sex and violence, were such as to endanger children and young people. The SAT 1 production shown on 23 February 1999 at 8.15 p.m. entitled „The price of innocence" opened with a bondage and torture scene linking sex and violence. Viewers had the sadistic murder of a young girl presented acoustically though not visually. In the LPR`s view, the scene was very long drawn...

In a criminal case involving official secrets, the Landgericht Bremen (District Court - LG) held, in its verdict of 13 August 1999, that the search of a broadcasting organisation`s newsroom together with the seizure of a draft report and the decisions leading thereto were unlawful due to the absence of authority to prosecute on the part of the high regional authorities concerned. The plaintiff is a broadcasting organisation. It reported in a TV magazine on the Bremen City Court of Audit`s budget, which was still confidential at the time of transmission. Information on the budget had until that...