Agencies: Attention, ideas not protected!
For this reason, I would like to draw attention today to a problem that repeatedly falls on the feet of agencies, but also of other…
Month: May 2019
Paid number in disclaimer inadmissible
Following the ECJ decision on the use of paid numbers to contact an online retailer (CJEU, judgment of 02.03.2017 – Rs. C -568/15), there is…
LG Stuttgart: GDPR violations cannot be warned
The dispute between different courts over whether data breaches can be warned by competitors is somewhat similar to whether and what influencers need to identify.…
Promotion with discount codes = sneaky advertising?
Comparison to influencer sneaking advertising I have already written in the blog about the current verdicts on influencers and sneaky advertising. You can read this…
Conditions of price indications in the fine print prohibited
A car dealer may not advertise a car at a price that is dependent on the buyer paying for his old vehicle if this is…
Let’s stream plays on events? What about the protection of minors?
Currently I get some questions about the impact of the youth protection law and the JusProg problem (see this article) on how to deal with…
LG Hamburg on Influencer Advertising and “Sponsored Content”
The problem of influencer sneaking advertising The District Court of Hamburg agrees with the rulings on influencers and sneaky advertising. So far, only the District…
Berlin District Court bans baseless Twitter ban
In a preliminary injunction, the Landgericht Berlin has prohibited the unfounded blocking of a Twitter account on the basis of “internal guidelines”. Twitter has come…
Legal opinions are an error in the meaning of the UWG
Already a few times I had to tell clients that one should be very careful when one communicates – possibly even as a legal layman,…
Play from 4 p.m. to stream only from 10 p.m.? The JusProg Dilemma
On 15 May 2019, the Commission for the Protection of Youth Media (KJM) declared the JusProg youth protection programme ineffective in accordance with Section 19b…
OLG Celle: Capping of warning costs for file sharing
Currently there is an interesting verdict from the OLG Celle regarding warnings and complaints in the field of file sharing. This concerns the transferability of…
As an esportsman only with a lawyer?
Last week the Esport-Recht event took place at the University of Augsburg and we discussed a lot of interesting topics, which I will also work…
Email in spam order: Delivered!
Yesterday I stumbled upon an interesting ruling by the Supreme Court in Vienna. For Austria, the latter has finally decided that an e-mail that is…
Liability trap BFH judgments on VAT in case of warnings
Before i go to the University-Augsburg to the Esport-Recht Institute today, to attend the first meeting tomorrow with other experts on the subject, I would…
BGH decides again on keyselling
The topic of keyselling is diverse and also peppered with countless false (legal) information. In addition, some law firms, which currently represent publishers and software…
50 Euro pain money per spammail?
The fact that spam mails are usually not a good idea for companies should have been talked about by now. The fact that spam mails…
ECJ: Time recording mandatory for companies
Especially in start-ups or smaller media companies that I supervise, the matter of accurate time recording is not taken so seriously. The clock hardly exists…
LG Berlin considers GDPR violations to be recalled
In data protection law, the question of whether the General Data Protection Regulation contains market conduct rules and whether infringements can therefore be warned by…
BFH, copyright warnings and VAT
A judgment of the Federal Finance Court has been in place since 2016, which seems to be unknown to many lawyers – AND – courts.…
Unwanted email advertising by advertising partners
In fact, it was thought that the times of court rulings on spam advertising were over. Either the perpetrators of spam are intangible, reputable providers…