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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...

In a statement dated 20 February 1995, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has made a contribution to the G7 meeting on the information society. The statement, titled "Broadcasters' role in the information society", expresses the views of the national broadcasters which are members of the EBU, on the development of the information society. The EBU inter alia points out that the cultural, political and social dimensions of the information society must not take second place to the technological and economic aspects of the electronic superhighways. According to the EBU, a purely market driven information...

At the Conference of Ministers held in Brussels on February 25th and 26th, the G7 countries jointly decided to take a leading role in the setting up of a global information network. The participants agreed that their future collaboration would be based on eigth basic principles of which two aim especially at encouraging competition and private investment. It is expected that an official structure will be set up which, in the opinion of the participating countries, must take users' needs into account and allow the association to supply services at reasonable prices. Furthermore, this structure...