Afghanistan papers
The Afghanistan papers are operational reports from the Bundeswehr to the Defense Committee of the German Bundestag , which were leaked to the WAZ media group via an anonymous informant . The newspaper group put the more than 5000 scanned pages online. They deal with Bundeswehr missions all over the world and date from 2005 to 2012.
The operational reports are the basis for the weekly briefing of the public by the Bundeswehr.
On August 5, 2015, the WAZ Group took the Afghanistan papers offline; the OLG Cologne had previously issued a judgment on this. The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) submitted the case to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). In the judgment of the European Court of Justice published on July 29, 2019, the court cast doubt on the question of whether the situation reports are subject to copyright protection. In addition, the ECJ says that the exception of the daily news could also apply to the Afghanistan papers. After the judgment of the European Court of Justice, the BGH had to decide again, with a judgment of April 30, 2020, the first civil senate decided that the Federal Republic of Germany cannot prohibit the publication of the documents "by the press on the basis of copyright law."
The data set was also redistributed across multiple mirror servers .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Bundeswehr mission in the Hindu Kush on: focus.de , November 28, 2012.
- ^ Consequences of a played down war on: süddeutsche.de , November 28, 2012.
- ↑ The Afghanistan Papers. on: afghanistan.derwesten-recherche.org
- ↑ Information to the public (PDF, weekly).
- ↑ Copyright: WAZ has to depublish Afghanistan papers. Retrieved July 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Arne Semsrott: ECJ decides on censorship law: only narrow exceptions for freedom of the press. In: netzpolitik.org. July 29, 2019, accessed on July 29, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Der Bundesgerichtshof - Press: Press releases - On the admissibility of the publication of military situation reports under copyright law. Accessed April 30, 2020 .