Legal dispute over honey advertising: Court rejects Böhmermann's application. Now the ZDF presenter could appeal.
In the court's opinion, he had put it, a "suitable means of satirically dealing with the judgment" of the court. In its ruling, the regional court referred to the so-called art copyright law. According to this, images may be published without the consent of the person concerned. “If they can be assigned to contemporary history and the legitimate interests of the. person depicted are not violated,” explained the judge.