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The Free State of Bavaria has submitted a Bill on compensation for crime victims to the Federal Council. The Bill not only aims at improving the procedural position of victims of acts of violence, but also at ensuring that the perpetrators can derive no immoral profits from commercial exploitation of their actions in the media. Fees paid for film treatments or talkshow appearances are now to go, on certain conditions, to the victims. So far, such assets have not usually been available to meet the legitimate civil law claims of victims, although publicising the crime often interferes with their...

The Federal High Court ( Bundesgerichtshof - BGH) has found that broadcasting to the public by direct satellite transmission is not a new method of use in the sense of Section 31 IV of the Copyright Act ( Urhebergesetz - UrhG), compared with the usual terrestrial transmission. The complainant, a production company, concluded three broadly similar contracts in the years 1975 to 1977 with the defendant, a broadcasting company, involving the joint production of a television broadcast which was afterwards to be broadcast terrestrially. In 1992 the defendant broadcast the entire series of programmes...

The entry into force on 1 January 1997 of the Agreement on Broadcasting between the Federal States in United Germany in the form of its third amendment dated 26 August - 11 September 1996 (RfStV) introduces rules in the Federal Republic's broadcasting regulations which use various instruments in order to protect diversity of opinion in private broadcasting ( see also IRIS 1996-8: 12). Included in this complex of standards is a measure to ensure diversity (Section 30, no.1 in conjunction with Section 31 of the RfStV) by allowing broadcasting time to third parties which are independent of the main...

A decision of 11 December 1996 by the Federal Cabinet has sent a Bill regulating the framework conditions for information and communication services (IuKDG) on to the Federal Council for its opinion. As reported in IRIS 1996-6:5 and IRIS 1996-8 :5, the proposed legislation takes the form of a number of framework regulations and is intended, in conjunction with the National Media Services Agreement to be elaborated by the Länder , to lay down the legal framework for the multimedia field. The draft being submitted now to the Federal Council is only slightly different from the original November 1996...

On 09.01.1997 the Bavarian Administrative Court delivered a second-court judgment against the the Bavarian Regional Office for New Media ( Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien - BLM) setting aside its judgment on the basis of the Bavarian Media Act (BayMG) on 26.05.1994 and the corresponding appeal judgment. This also amended the judgment of 16.10.1995 by the Administrative Court in Würzburg. A private cable operator, the überlandwerk Unterfranken AG, had complained that it had been obliged by the BLM to conclude an agreement with the media operating company according to which the latter...