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The act on the use of standards for the transmission of television signals - the Television Signal Transmission Act (Gesetz über die Anwendung von Normen für die Übertragung von Fernsehsignalen - Fernsehsignalübertragungs-Gesetz - FÜG) - came into force on 25 November 1997, incorporating Directive 95/47/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union of 24 October 1995 on the use of standards for the transmission of television signals (the TV Standards Directive - see IRIS 1996-2: 5) into national law. The rules embodied in the new Act largely coincide with those laid down in...

On 29 August 1997, the Hamburg Regional Court (Landgericht Hamburg) rejected an action brought by 70 members of FreeLens, a press photographers' association, against the news magazine Der Spiegel. The applicants complained at the re-publication on CD-ROM, without their specific permission, of photographs originally published in Der Spiegel between 1989 and 1993. Under the transfer of purpose principle (Section 31 (5) of the Copyright Act), the spatial and temporal scope of globally assigned rights is determined by the purpose specified in the contract. Provided that the use in question was known...

In a judgment given at last instance on 11 December 1997 - KVR 7/96 - the Monopolies Division of the Federal Court (Kartellsenat des Bundesgerichtshofs - BGH) upheld the Federal Cartel Office's (Bundeskartellamt) decision forbidding the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball Bund - DFB) to centralise the marketing of television rights to the home matches of German teams competing for the European Cup and the European Cup-Winners' Cup. The association's application for permission to establish a cartel for rationalisation purposes, in accordance with Section 5, para. 2 and 3, in conjunction...

The provisional common guideline of the regional media authorities on broadcasting time for independent third parties in accordance with Section 31 of the Agreement between the Federal States on Broadcasting (RfStV), agreed by the Conference of Directors of the Regional Media Authorities in January (see IRIS 1997-3: 13 and IRIS 1997-2: 13), has not received the necessary approval of all the supervisory bodies of the regional media authorities. The Broadcasting Commission of the North Rhine-Westphalia Broadcasting Authority rejected the regulations contained in the guideline, pointing out that they...

The regional media authorities have announced that an advertisement for the "Euro" (a single European currency) produced by the Federal Government in conjunction with the European Parliament and the European Commission is not permissible as it exceeds the limits for political advertising. The private German broadcasting companies Pro Sieben and Kabel 1 had submitted two advertisements on the euro to the relevant working party on advertising at the regional media authorities to check whether they were admissible at law. One of the two was declared inadmissible as it exceeded the limits for political...