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On 13 March 1995, a draft of a fourth law to amend the Act on authors' rights and rights related to authors' rights (Urheberrechtsgesetz) of 9 September 1965 (BGBl. I p. 1273), lastly amended by the Act of 2 September 1994 (BGBl. I p. 227B, 2293), was put before the federal government. The government's draft is intended to implement Council Directive 93/98/EEC of 29 October 1993 to harmonize national rules on the duration of authors' rights and certain related rights (OJ of 24.11.1993 No L 290: 9). The draft makes provision for a 50 year period of protection of performance rights for sound recording...

With its ruling on 22 March 1995, the second senate of the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) settled the dispute between the German Länder (federal states) and the Federation over the EEC Directive on "Television without frontiers" (89/552/EEC). Eigth German federal Länder have added their support to a lawsuit brought by the government of the Land of Bavaria and which has been pending since 1989. The proceedings dealt essentially with the question whether, by endorsing the EEC Directive, the Federal government had infringed the jurisdiction concerning broadcasting matters...

During the summer of 1995 in Stuttgart it is planned to undertake a pilot project named "Baden-Wurttemberg Multimedia". 4000 households within the Stuttgart area will take part in this large scale test organised by the Ministry of Economics. The test area was chosen not only because of the representative population cross-section but also because it possesses one of the best cable network installations. The test will cover both private and business needs. For private use it is planned to test, amongst others, video on demand, telelearning, teleshopping and also publisher information services. For...

On November 23rd 1993 the biggest private television channels in the German federal republic took the decision to set up a voluntary review body - "Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Fernsehen e.V." (FSF). This organisation, which is managed by the broadcasters themselves, seeks to control violence and sex as portrayed on television, following a recent public outcry on this matter. The aim of the association, which came into being officially on April 1st 1994 in Berlin, is to limit the portrayal of violence and sex on television in such a way that they are not prejudicial to the moral, spiritual and...

In the above case, the Bavarian Supreme Court turned down an application by a Turkish expatriot (the claimant) to install a satellite dish to receive foreign broadcasts. The claimant acquired German nationality in 1982 and renounced his Turkish nationality at the same time. He owns his own flat in a large apartment complex where a Turkish channel is available by cable. The claimant put up a satellite dish on his balcony to receive more Turkish channels by satellite,and as a result, the other flat owners in the complex successfully brought a case against the man. A deciding factor in the case was...