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In IRIS 1996-2, p.14, we reported that there was political agreement on a new Telecommunications Act. On 27 June 1996 the Bundestag adopted the Telecommunications Bill. The Bundesrat was expected to approve it on 5 July. The Act can then be brought into force. The Act comes after some debate, in which it was eventually possible to clarify the questions which still remained and reach an agreement with the somewhat divergent position of the Bundesrat. The Media Committee of the Bundesrat and the Bundestag finally reached agreement on 14 June. The vocal and network monopoly of Deutsche Telekom AG...

On 02.05.1996 the Minister of Training, Science, Research and Technology, Jürgen Rüttgers, presented the foundations for the legislation on information and communication services. According to these, the Act is to include broader forms of interactive individual communication, various forms of switching between individual and mass communication, and electronic press services. It is intended to lay down outline conditions for the new information and communications technologies, thereby creating optimum conditions for standardised development. Regulations to liberalise the various media markets,...

The Minister-Presidents of the Länder have agreed in Berlin on the draft of an Agreement between the Länder (Federal States) on media services. The draft was submitted to the groups concerned for the first time on 3.3.1996. From January 1997, this would replace the previously applicable Agreement between the Länder on interactive videotext. The Länder have proposed their own unified regulations for the new services equivalent to the federation's planned legislation on the multi-media. This would cover all services not included in the Agreement between the Länder on broadcasting. Thus the Agreement...

On 25th October 1995 a workshop organised by the National Center for Automated Information Research and the Cyberspace Law Institute proposed the creation of a Virtual Magistrate. The purpose of this pilot project is to set up a structure offering players on the Internet swift arbitration and provisional decisions providing a solution to conflicts involving these same players. The idea of arbitration, which is specific to the Internet, arose from the realisation that the traditional legal system is too slow, too expensive and too difficult of access for it to be able to respond appropriately to...

On 19 December 1995, Princess Caroline of Monaco (plaintiff) won an action against the publishing house Burda (defendants) in the sixth Civil Chamber of the Federal Court. The case was concerned with a photo feature published in the picture magazine, Freizeit-Revue , No. 30, on 22 July 1993. Under the heading, "The sweetest pictures of her romance with Vincent", this featured photographs of Princess Caroline and the actor Vincent Lindon in a garden cafe. Both obviously assumed that no one was watching them, and the pictures were taken from a considerable distance, using a telephoto lens. The...