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The 19. Rundfunkänderungsstaatsvertrag (19th Amendment to the Inter-State Broadcasting Agreement - RÄStV) was signed on 3 December 2015. The Länder heads of government decided to adopt the amendment, which focuses on youth programmes and youth media, at their annual conference on 8/9 October 2015. Desspite the fears of a licence fee-funded distortion of competition expressed by the Verband Privater Rundfunk und Telemedien (Association of Commercial Broadcasters and Telemedia - VPRT), the signing of the agreement paves the way for the online-based range of youth programmes planned by ARD and ZDF....

After three years of negotiations, the public service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have renegotiated the “Framework Agreement on contractual co-operation on joint film/television productions and comparable cinema co-productions” with the Allianz Deutscher Produzenten - Film & Fernsehen (Alliance of German Producers - Film & Television, or Producers’ Alliance). The Producers’ Alliance is an independent association representing the interests of German producers of audiovisual works. It represents around 230 members, which makes it the largest association of its kind in Germany. The agreement lays down...

The new Eckpunktevereinbarung 2.0 (“Framework Agreement 2.0”) between the regional broadcasters forming the ARD network and the Allianz Deutscher Produzenten - Film & Fernsehen (Alliance of German Producers - Film & Television, or Producers’ Alliance) concerns balanced contract terms and conditions and the fair distribution of exploitation rights between the public service broadcaster and TV programme producers. In this agreement, which came into force on 1 January 2016, the ARD has undertaken to adhere to certain terms and conditions with regard to television productions it has commissioned in...

The use of parts of an exclusive TV interview by another TV station can be covered by the right to quote enshrined in section 51 of the Urhebergesetz (Copyright Act). In this case, it is sufficient for the interview to appear as a discussion basis for independent comments made in the television programme using it. This is according to the I. Zivilsenat des Bundesgerichtshofs (1st Civil Chamber of the Federal Court of Justice) judgment of 17 December 2015 (Case I ZR 69/14). In the case concerned, the two commercial television stations SAT.1 and VOX were in dispute over exclusive interviews conducted...

The commercial television broadcaster Sat.1 must continue to broadcast the Hessian regional programme operated by the external provider TV Illa GmbH. This was decided by the first chamber of the Verwaltungsgericht Kassel (Kassel Administrative Court) in a judgment of 1 December 2015 (Case 1 K 618/13.KS). In reaching this decision, the Court dismissed the commercial broadcaster’s complaint against the extension of the broadcasting licence granted by the Hessische Landesanstalt für privaten Rundfunk und neue Medien (Hessian regional commercial broadcasting and new media authority - LPR). In Germany,...