DE: „Tagesschau-App“ violates Interstate Broadcasting Treaty
Tobias Raab
On 30 September 2016, the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht, OLG) of Cologne decided that the so called „Tagesschau-App“ of the Public Service Broadcaster ARD, as it was available online on 15 June 2011, violates the Interstate Broadcasting Treaty (Case no. 6 U 188/12).
The plaintiffs, eleven German publishing houses, had argued that the app violated § 11 of the German Broadcasting Treaty (Rundfunkstaatsvertrag, RStV). § 11 RStV prohibits Public Service Broadcasters from publishing content not related to their programmes in a press-like way and aims at protecting private publishers from the distortion of competition resulting from press-like activities by…
