Month: July 2019

As I have already outlined in this article, the train of judgments regarding the labeling of affiliates and commission payments is picking up speed. Now ...

Kraftwerk's long-running trial of Moses Pelham and Martin Haas seems to be coming to an end. Today, the ECJ has ruled. The Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court ...

Currently, there is a persistent discussion about whether videos from the game "Wolfenstein: Youngblood" can be shown in the English version on YouTube or Twitch ...

At the end of last year, I reported that the Advocate General of the ECJ had recommended that the ECJ decide that a website operator ...

Only recently there was a lot of debate in relevant forums as to whether loot boxes should actually be regarded as a gamble in Germany. ...

Important verdict Recently, the Higher Regional Court made a highly interesting ruling on the issue of labeling affiliate links (see my article on this in ...

The I.E. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible for trademark law, among other things, has today ruled that a trademark ...

Article 17 GDPR establishes a right to erasure or to be forgotten. To that end, the Landgericht Frankfurt am Main recently held that the omission ...

Due to antitrust concerns of the Federal Cartel Office, Amazon is changing its terms and conditions for merchants on Amazon's online marketplaces. The changes concern ...

An underappreciated problem Time and again, I see that clients of mine who are struggling with staff turnover or have many freelancers in the company ...

In a recent decision, the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt ruled that an undertaking is not liable for anti-competitive acts of third parties, even if ...

In principle, the question of whether a statement should be punished as an insult or protected by freedom of expression must be decided by means ...

An overview for esport teams and streamers My blog is now full of legal questions and warnings that affect esports teams or streamers in one ...

The problem Often enough, I have preached to clients and also here on the blog that one should not underestimate how quickly courts view a ...

The V. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible, inter alia, for claims arising from property ownership and ownership of movable ...

In a recent judgment, the Landgericht Duisburg ruled that the obligation to take back old electronic devices also applies to online shops. Such a company ...

Even if esports men are more likely to be the energy drink consumers, locations such as esports bars or LAN arenas are quite wondering whether ...

All affiliates affected After my article yesterday on the judgment of the OLG Dresden(see here) that a website must also label links to affiliate partners ...

When I reported on influencers and streamers, I keep hearing that courts would treat new media unfairly and that veteran magazines would be able to ...

The ECJ recently issued a groundbreaking decision on the issue of providing a telephone number in the legal notice(see this article). Now I got some ...