Court prohibits publication of “sense and form” – media

The Berlin Academy of Arts is from the district court Berlin been provisionally prohibited, the literary journal meaning and form to release. If she does, she faces a fine of up to 250,000 euros. The background to this is a lawsuit against competition law by the magazine Letter International and its editor Frank Berberich. The legal dispute is about paragraphs and money, but also about a fundamental question: Is freedom of the press in danger if the state gets involved in the media market – because this threatens the living conditions of privately financed publications? well has letter achieved a stage victory: The academy – currently – lacks the legal basis for the publication of the magazine, the district court of Berlin decided.