Germany: : Discontinued porn films constitute official information in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act

• Autores: Cristina Bachmeier
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 10, 2014, págs. 8-9
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • In a ruling of 22 September 2014 (case no. 13 K 4674/13), the Verwaltungsgericht Köln (Cologne Administrative Court - VG) upheld a private collector�s right to a copy of a pornographic film.

    The plaintiff had initially asked the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien (Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young People - BPjM) for a copy of the classified video film, which was no longer available to buy, �for his own use�. His request was rejected by the BPjM on the grounds that, firstly, the request had not been made within the scope, and for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act (Informationsfreiheitsgesetz - IFG), and secondly, the BPjM did not hold distribution rights for the purposes of Article 17(1) of the Copyright Act (Urhebergesetz - UrhG) or reproduction rights under Article 16 UrhG.