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On 22 August 1996, the Hannover District Court imposed a fine of more than 20 million DM (which is unusually high for Germany) on the television station, RTL plus Deutschland . RTL, licensed in the Land of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) to broadcast a full ( i.e., not specilizing in a particular type of) television programme covering Niedersachsen and the rest of the country, had shown 34 television films, nearly all of them interrupted by four commercial breaks, between October 1993 and June 1994. The court found that the films had been shown under a general title ( Der grosse TV-Roman ), had separate...

In IRIS 1996-7: 15, IRIS reported on a recent publication on the freedom of reception under French and European law. Now we can report that in the September issue of the German language magazine INFOSAT, an article was published on the freedom of reception in Germany. The article is based on a decision of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court) of 9 February 1994 (1 BvR 1687/92, see : NJW 1994 Heft 17) on the right of a foreign inhabitant to receive broadcasts from his native country and focusses on the right of reception of tenants vis à vis owners.

other texts are available yet. On a motion from the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, the Federal Board of Examiners for Literature Likely to Pervert Young Persons has, for the first time, placed Internet material on the index of literature tending to pervert the young. This Internet material concerns several WWW pages issued by a neo-Nazi based in Canada, the contents of which glorify violence and deny National Socialist crimes. The Federal Ministry regards this as infringing the provisions of the Criminal Code, in particular Article 131 of the Criminal Code...

The report The Development of the Information Society: an International Analysis is the result of a pilot study to determine how to measure the UK's progress towards the information society. It was commissioned from Spectrum Strategy Consultants as part of the Department of Trade and Industry's Information Society Initiative (ISI). The consultants analysed the performance of the UK, five other G7 countries (USA, Canada, Japan, France and Germany) and three countries selected because of their pioneering activities within the context of the Information Society (Australia, Sweden and Singapore). According...

On 29.07.1996 the Minister Presidents of the Federal States (the Länder) passed the Third Agreement between the Federal States amending Agreements between the Federal States on broadcasting; this will come into force on 01.01.1997. Important features in the new regulations include provisions to ensure diversity of opinion in private broadcasting, and extended broadcasting content for satellite channels in public service broadcasting. §26 of the Agreement on Broadcasting ( Rundfunkstaatsvertrag - RfStV) regulates the viewer market share model for private television operators; this replaces the...