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In a judgment of 8 November 2000, the first chamber of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court) overturned rulings by the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court - BGH), which had prohibited the appellant, a press firm, from printing three advertisements for the Benetton company. The BGH had deemed the advertisements, which contained images of child labour, a duck covered in oil and an HIV carrier, to be immoral on the grounds that the portrayal of serious human and animal suffering was likely to arouse feelings of sympathy which were being exploited without good reason for...

On 22 June 2000, the Parliament of Moldova passed amendments to the Act on Television and Radio of 3 October 1995. According to the amended Article 23 (1) of the Television and Radio Act, retransmission from foreign countries of programmes by means of "broadcasting networks and transmitters" which are state property shall be performed by public or private companies holding a broadcasting license and if necessary of a technical license, or having a contract to rent the "broadcasting networks and transmitters." The second part of the amended article prohibits broadcasting companies from combining...

The Radio Authority, established by the Broadcasting Acts 1990 and 1996 to license and regulate Independent Radio, adopted and published its original Advertising and Sponsorship Code ten years ago. The 1990 Act obliges the Authority to review the Code from time to time. In March 2000, the Authority initiated a consultation process with the aim of revising and modernizing the Code. The new Code was published on 4 January 2001. Broadly, the aims of the revision are to (a) bring the Code into line with current and pending legislation (b) restructure the Code, to highlight the more important rules...

The Landesmedienanstalten (Land media authoritiesLMS), which are responsible for monitoring commercial television broadcasters, are planning to license special television channels aimed at all actual and potential customers of a specific company, ie an unlimited number of people, as "self-advertising channels". The LMS felt they needed to take this step because this new phenomenon is becoming increasingly common, combining information about the company itself with other material, which differentiates it from so-called "Business-TV". Companies use "Business-TV" purely for the internal transmission...

In a decision of 4 October 2000, the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin (Berlin Administrative Court) ordered, at the request of ProSieben Media AG, that its complaint against a decision by the supervisory Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (Berlin-Brandenburg Media Authority - MABB) should have suspensory effect. Following the merger of ProSieben Media AG and SAT1 Holding GmbH on 2 October 2000, ProSiebenSAT1 Media AG is the legal successor to the dissolved firm ProSieben Media AG. The case concerned advertising on ProSieben for news broadcaster N24, which is wholly owned by ProSiebenSAT1. It was alleged...