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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...

In its April 1995 position paper, " Deregulation of the Cable TV Market as an Element in the Reorganisation of Telecommunications in Germany", the Association of Private Network, Satellite and Cable Communications Operators (ANGA) welcomes the main points made by the Federal Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in its paper of 27 March 1995 on future general regulations on telecommunications. ANGA represents mainly medium-sized private network operators in Germany. Its members include operators of cable and community television services and communications systems, housing developers, satellite...

On 27 March 1995, the Federal Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued a position paper, laying down a number of important principles for future general regulations on telecommunications. The paper reflects the Ministry's current thinking on these questions. When it has been discussed, the next stage will be drafting by experts of a new telecommunications act, with market regulation as its main emphasis. The principles are essentially based on the guidelines laid down in Part II of the European Commission's Green Paper on the Liberalisation of Telecommunications Infrastructure and Cable...

The Administrative Court of the Saarland recently had to decide whether teletext-type pictures and graphics shown on silent endless loop by the "Monitor-Journal" via monitors installed on commercial premises, e.g. near department store cash points, should be classified as broadcasting. The material shown comprises news, advertisements, miscellaneous items and information supplied by client firms. It is put together at the Journal's office and fed via telephone into the client's computer. Material which the client wants included must be supplied to the Journal prior to transfer. Showing begins when...

In a judgment given on 23 February 1995, the First Chamber of the Federal Court ruled that artists were entitled to receive a fair share of the proceeds from the sale of sections of the Berlin Wall which they had painted. The case was brought by artists who had painted extensive sections of the Berlin Wall between 1985 and 1988. At the end of 1989, when the internal border in Berlin was abolished, these painted concrete sections were cut up and later offered for sale at an auction organised by the defendants, among others, in Monte Carlo in June 1990. Among other things, the Court ruled that:...