When someone is ordered to cease and desist on the Internet, many often forget that all content must be removed, not just the actual post or website. This includes backups, unlinked website or even the Google cache. A particularly interesting ruling was recently issued by the OLG Celle. This is because the latter ruled that a court injunction would also include searching Facebook groups for possible posted links to an original post on Facebook. Otherwise, there is a threat of administrative fine proceedings. Often in a link in Facebook groups, through the preview, namely the actual e accusation that led to the injunction is included. Both the Regional...

As a self-confessed "Lord of the Rings" fan, I simply had to post a blog article on a recent decision by the Munich Regional Court. The court ruled that calling a person "Gollum" can be insulting and thus violate the right of personality of the person concerned. (25 O 12738/22). The scientist in question had been appropriately named by a citizens' movement in a flyer, the report said. The reason for this, he said, was that the Tokien novel character Gollum from "The Lord of the Rings" is not a being with a positive connotation. Therefore, the designation "Gollum" had been disparaging in the specific case. There was...

Last year, the ECJ ruled that numerous types of cookies must be expressly authorized by the user before they can be stored on the...

The German Federal Supreme Court today ruled that companies may charge their customers a fee for payment via Sofortüberweisung or PayPal if the fee...