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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...

The Heads of State and Government of seven major industrialized nations and the President of the European Commission, have met in Halifax for their 21st annual Summit. They announced that they were committed to the successful completion of current negociations in services sectors and, in particular, significant liberalization in financial and telecommunications services. They will proceed with follow-up work foreseen in the Uruguay Round Final Act. They encourage work in areas such as technical standards, intellectual property; an immediate priority is the negotiation in the OECD of a high standard...

ARD and ZDF intend to work together on buying and selling television rights to national and international sports events, and are setting up the "Sports Rights and Marketing Agency, Ltd." for that purpose. Subject to approval by their respective boards, the directors have agreed to draw up articles of partnership. In addition to purchasing sports rights, the agency will provide marketing services for sports events. Shares will be equally divided between the ARD and the ZDF. The agency will be Munich based, and the ARD and ZDF expect it to strengthen their market position, since sports event organisers...