The Cologne Administrative Court has determined that the indexing of Bushido album “Sonny Black” as justified. The Federal Department had put it last year because “brutalizing and gewaltverherrlichtender texts” to the list of obscene materials media. By contrast, the singer had cleared
Bushido had justified his action so that his CD was not jugendgefährend and its dissemination through the website, the Twitter account and YouTube channel only reaches its fans who are familiar with the peculiarities of the gangsta and Battle Raps. His followers knew that it was the staging of a fictional character in Sonny Black.
The Federal Review Board have not determined the content of the art work enough. In particular, they have not listened to the other involved in the work of artists. They have not sufficiently dealt with the artistic value. It did not mind that his oeuvre has undergone extensive attention.
The court has confirmed and executed indexing decision of federal inspection, the CD contents are harmful to young people, so suitable, anyway, labile and “hazard inclined” Youth in their upbringing and development endangering. Violence would propagated as an adequate means of confrontation and women and homosexuals suffer discrimination. The harmful effect on minors there also, the court, when one considers that it was the staging of a stage character.
The point of view of artistic freedom does not prevent indexing, to argue the court. Because the interests of minors are given more weight than the artistic freedom of the owners. It should also be noted that the work will not completely banned by indexing but indexing merely means that it should not be made accessible to children and adolescents
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the verdict may be appealed, on the Higher administrative court in Münster decide.
Bushido itself is at the trial.
With agency material
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