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On 29 January 2015, the AG Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt am Main District Court - case 33 C 3407/14) ruled that tenants of a flat do not have to accept dummy video surveillance cameras installed by their landlord in either the building lobby or stairwell. The court ruled in favour of a tenant who had felt intimidated and threatened by the dummy devices. The landlord had originally installed the dummy video cameras exclusively to deter potential criminals. He claimed that, for this reason, combined with the fact that the camera did not work, the tenant’s privacy rights had not been breached. However,...

At its meeting on 10 December 2014, the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for the Protection of Young People in the Media - KJM) gave a positive assessment of three new age verification measures (AVS partial modules) for closed user groups in telemedia. They are Aristotle Inc.'s "Aristotle Integrity/Instant Global ID and Age Verification (Integrity)" system, edentiX GmbH's "Online Ausweischeck" and Web Shield Limited's "KYC Shield". According to the Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement on the Protection of Young People in the Media - JMStV), certain content that is...

In a ruling of 17 December 2014 (case no. 6 C 32.13), the Bundeswaltungsgericht (Federal Administrative Court - BVerwG) decided that it was not a breach of broadcasting law for advertising spots to be transmitted on a regional basis on a national television channel. The decision followed an announcement by the provider of the "ProSieben" television channel that it intended to offer regional advertising spots to advertising customers for whom national TV advertising was unattractive. The lower-instance Verwaltungsgericht Berlin (Berlin Administrative Court - VG Berlin), in a decision of 26 September...

On 13 November 2014, the Budgetary Committee of the German Bundestag (lower house of parliament) voted, in accordance with the Federal Finance Ministry’s 2015 finance report (see table 18 in the report), to reduce the level of aid to the Deutscher Filmförderfonds (German Federal Film Fund - DFFF) from EUR 60 million to EUR 50 million. As a result, the original plans to make even greater cuts in 2015 and close the fund completely from 2017 were abandoned and the long-term future of the DFFF was secured. The fund is used to support German film projects by reimbursing up to 20% of production costs...

At its meeting in Halle in mid-November 2014, the Gesamtkonferenz (General Conference - GK) of the German media authorities (comprising the Conference of Chairpersons of the Decision-Taking Councils and the Conference of Directors) criticised the inadequate provision of accessible programming on private television. According to the media authorities’ press release on the subject, published on 19 November 2014, the RTL media group in particular remains insufficiently committed in this field. In a study carried out over the last two years, the number of subtitled programmes broadcast by the two main...