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The applicant operates several broad band cable facilities in Bavaria, using them to relay radio and television programmes received on his personal satellite installation to connected, fee-paying households. On 23 May 1996, he lodged a complaint against the notification requirement embodied in Section 38 I of the Bavarian Media Act and the requirement, embodied in Section 38 II of the Act, that contracts on the retransmission of satellite programmes be concluded with two media operating companies responsible in this area. He argued that he was not an operator within the meaning of Section 38 I...

On 18 December 1996, the Federal Constitutional Court rejected several constitutional appeals by the Berlin-Brandenburg Media Authority ( Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg - MABB) as inadmissible. The appeals referred to legal disputes concerning the licensing of the German Sports Television Channel ( Deutsches Sportfernsehen DSF), which is part of the Kirch group. Although several Land media authorities had suggested that licensing DSF might be incompatible with the ban on concentrations contained in the 1991 Agreement on Broadcasting between the Federal States in United Germany, the Bavarian Regional...

To date, the professional regulations governing lawyers' conduct have prevented them from advertising their services. At the end of November 1996, a meeting of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers ( Bundesrechtsanwaltkammer ) called to review the Chamber's statute adopted a new set of professional regulations. They include, inter alia, a liberalisation of the rules governing advertising. In future, under paragraph 6 of the regulations, lawyers will be allowed to provide information about their services and their persons. The opportunity of advertising in the media, especially printed media, and on the...

In its decision of 14.6.1996, the Third Criminal Chamber of the Federal Court ( Bundesgerichtshof-BGH ) dismissed the appeal on a point of law against his conviction by the Berlin Regional Court lodged by the accused, a notorious representative of neo-Nazi circles in Germany. The charge against the accused was based inter alia on the fact that in spreading the so-called Auschwitz lieie denying that the holocaust happened - he had made statements inciting racial hatred and other insulting remarks and was therefore liable to prosecution under Sections 90a(1/1/3), 130(3 aF), 185 and 189 of the Criminal...

On 20.11.96 Germany's Press Council decided to extend its system of journalistic self-regulation beyond the printed word to cover publications in digital form. The German Press Council ( Deutsche Presserat - DPR), founded in 1956, has four pillars: the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers ( Bundesverband Deutscher Zeitungsverleger - BDZV); the Association of German Magazine Publishers ( Verband Deutscher Zeitschriftenverleger - VDZ); the German Journalists' Association ( Deutschen Journalistenverband - DJV); the Trade Union for the Media, journalism section ( IG Medien ). The statute...