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At its meeting on 28 January 2015, the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Committee for the Protection of Young People in the Media - KJM) gave a positive assessment of the “[verify‐U] face‐to‐face” module, an additional age verification system devised by Cybits AG for closed user groups in telemedia. According to the Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement on the Protection of Young People in the Media - JMStV), certain telemedia services that are harmful to minors may only be distributed within a closed user group. As a result, telemedia providers are required to ensure that access...

Following an application from Kabel Deutschland Vertriebs und Service GmbH & Co. KG, the Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien (Bavarian New Media Office - BLM) has decided that there are no grounds in media law to prevent the ARD-Alpha analogue feed being withdrawn from the cable network. In accordance with the official procedure for programme reassignment in the cable network, Kabel Deutschland had announced its intention to withdraw the analogue feed of the ARD-Alpha (previously BR-Alpha) TV channel from its cable service in Bavaria at the end of 2014 and requested confirmation that there...

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...