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Over the last few months the regional media bodies have expressed their doubts over the efficiency of work carried out by the voluntary Television Review Body. This led to a preliminary meeting between the regional media bodies' Youth Protection And Programme Planning Working Party and representatives of the review body in Berlin on 7 June 1995. As was reported in IRIS 1995-3:7 and IRIS 1995-5:9, the review body carries out pre-broadcast examinations on television programmes offered by private channels. To save time, not all the programmes proposed by a television channel are assessed. Only those...

The German Association of Journalists has called upon the Federal Parliament to enact new regulations concerning copyright protection. According to the association, these regulations have been needed for a long time and have now taken on new meaning in the age of multimedia. Above all, journalists claim that it is time to improve the status of the freelance worker. The current business constraints mean that journalists are practically forced to use their work for any imaginable purpose. In their opinion, copyright law must set down inalienable regulations guaranteeing freelance journalists a financial...

At their conference at the beginning of May 1995 the directors of the regional media bodies were called upon to make an inspection of the programmes broadcast by the Turkish state television channel TRT-International (TRT-INT). This Turkish station can be seen by cable or satellite in most of the Federal states. The inspection was instigated by a special 56-hour programme broadcast at the end of April 1995 under the title "Rise up Turkey! Give courage to our soldiers" in which TRT-INT had called the population to support military forces deployed in Northern Iraq against the Kurdistan Workers' Party...

Amendments of the InterLänder Treaty on broadcasting have brought about debate on a new definition for the notion of broadcasting (IRIS 1995-6:10). In a paper entitled " Der Rundfunkbegriff als Hemmnis für das Wachstum der deutschen Telekommunikation" ("The notion of broadcasting is a hindrance to the growth of telecommunications in Germany") the association of private network operators, ANGA, declared itself to be in favour of redefining as precisely as possible the notion of broadcasting. According to them, tele-services such as pay-as-you-view, video on demand and online services should now...

On 25 April 1995 the 4th senate for civil matters of the Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) issued a ruling concerning the surveillance of a public footpath using a private video camera. The parties are neighbouring landowners who have joint access to their respective properties by a 1.2-metre wide public footpath. The issue of the case was that the defendant had installed a camera on her land, the purpose of which was to survey part of the footpath over the whole of its width after rubbish had been thrown onto her land on frequent occasions from the said footpath. She used the programmable...