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The fourth Saarbrücken Media Congress is to take place from the 15 - 17 April 1995 at Halberg Castle. The theme of this year's congress will be "Communication throughout Europe - Markets, Makers, Consumers". Through lectures, workshops, debates and discussion with experts delegates will be given the opportunity to find out about current and future media policies in Europe. Delegates will also have the chance to talk with scientific, political and business experts on a wide range of topics going from the role of journalists in the media world of the year 2000 to issues concerning media concentration...

In IRIS 1995-3: 12-15, a list was published, updating Signatures and Ratifications of European Conventions that are relevant to the audo-visual sector. However, on the date of publication of IRIS 1995-3, on 24 March 1995, Germany and the Netherlands deposited their instruments of ratification. The Convention will now enter into force in Germany as well as in the Netherlands on 1 July 1995. Both countries made a Declaration on the time of depositing the instrument of ratification; the Declaration of the Netherlands includes a Territorial Declaration: Germany Declaration contained in a letter from...

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...