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In Germany, media policies are the prerogative of the sixteen federal states (the Länder ). They all have media laws of their own. To coordinate their policies in the field of broadcasting, they negotiated between them the Staatsvertrag über den Rundfunk im vereinten Deutschland (Agreement on Broadcasting between the Federal States in United Germany) which was adopted on 31 August 1991. A first set of amendments was agreed upon on 24 June 1994; they came into force on 1 August 1994. A second set of amendments is currently under preparation ( see : IRIS 1995-1: 9). Article 1 of the Broadcasting...

- Council Directive on the legal protection of computer programmes of 14 May 1991; transposed into national law by the Second Act to amend the Copyright Act, 9 July 1993 (BGBl. I S. 910); - Council Directive 92/100/EEC of 19 November 1992 on rental and lending rights and certain rights related to copyright and Council Directive 93/98/EEC of 29 October 1993 on the harmonization of the term of protection of copyright and certain rights related to copyright transposed into national law by the Third Act to amend the Copyright Act, 11 May 1995 (BT-Drucksachen 13/115); - Draft version of a Bill concerning...

IRIS regularly publishes an update of the state of Signatures and Ratifications of the European Conventions that are relevant to the audio-visual sector ( see : IRIS 1995-1: 16-18, IRIS 1995-3: 11-14, IRIS 1995-4: 11 and IRIS 1995-6: 5). In IRIS 1995-6 we published an update until 1 June 1995. Since then, the European Convention on cinematographic co-production of 2 October 1992, European Treaties Series No 147 entered into force for Germany and the Netherlands on 1 July 1995 and for Finland on 1 September 1995. There have been no changes in the state of Signatures and Ratifications of the other...

On 29 May 1995, the Federal Ministry of Justice published the draft version of a fourth Act amending the Copyright Act. The new act is designed to implement Copyright Act Directive 93/83/EEC of 27 September 1993 on the co-ordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable transmission (OJ EC L. 248, p. 15). Concerning the law on satellite transmission, the ministerial draft rewords Section 20 of the Copyright Act to incorporate the Directive's definition of the legally relevant act, transmission by satellite. Under the...

The third Act amending the Copyright Act of 23 June 1995 (BGBI. I, p. 842) came into force on 1 July 1995. The Act implements Directive 92/100/EEC of 19 November 1992, on rental and lending rights and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property (OJ EC L 346, p. 61), and Council Directive 93/98/EEC of 29 October 1993, harmonising the term of copyright and certain related rights (OJ EC L 290, p. 9). The rights of record and film producers and broadcasters are now protected for a period of 50 years, instead of 25 years, as previously. The new rule protecting the rights...