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According to Articles 1 and 15 of the Act of 30 September 1986, as amended, one of the duties of the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) is to guarantee the protection of children and young people in respect of programmes that are broadcast. On 04 July 2006, as part of this mission, the CSA set up a framework for the presentation and promotion on television (apart from cinema channels and pay-per-view schemes) of cinematographic or audiovisual works and their spin-off videograms, video games and telephone and telematic services and Internet sites to which minors...

In a ruling of 4 August 2006, the Landgericht Leipzig (Leipzig District Court - LG ) confirmed its decision to grant an application by Sat.1 Satellitenfernsehen GmbH for a temporary injunction against the Internet service "onlinetvrecorder.com", which functions as a virtual video recorder. On 27 March 2006, the LG had granted the temporary injunction, under which the domain operator had been prohibited, inter alia , from storing, making available to third parties, transmitting via so-called online streaming or uploads (ie via the Internet) and/or copying or making available for copying the TV programmes...

In the dispute between Dynamic Medien Vertriebs GmbH and Avides Media AG, the Landgericht Koblenz (Koblenz District Court) lodged with the ECJ on 31 May 2006 questions on the preliminary ruling under Art. 234 of the EC Treaty (Case no. C-244/06). The question referred concerns in particular whether and to what extent national provisions that make mail order sales of image storage media (DVDs, videos) dependent on their being labelled as having been examined by a national body as to their availability to young persons are incompatible with the principle of the free movement of goods. In particular,...

On 1 July 2006, German mobile telephone service providers O2 Germany, The Phone House Telecom, T-Mobile and Vodafone joined the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia-Diensteanbieter e. V. (voluntary self-monitoring body for multimedia service providers - FSM). The FSM is responsible, for example, for the self-monitoring of online content, and is part of the German co-regulatory system for the protection of young people in the audiovisual media. For the mobile phone companies that have joined the FSM, implementation of the 2005 code of conduct for mobile phone providers in Germany concerning the...

On 5 May 2006, the Norwegian Government tabled a legal proposal allowing for substantial amendments to the Lov om Film- og Videogram (the Act on Film and Video - AFV). Abolishing censorship of cinema films aimed at adults is one of the crucial changes. Accordingly, only films with an audience including children (below 18 years) intended for public showing at cinemas need approval by the Media Authority. The Media Authority is authorized to determine age classifications, which remain at four levels in Norway: ”for all”, above 7 years, above 11 years and above 15 years (in the event that an adult...