LG Düsseldorf: “Malle” as a trademark has legal status
By judgment of 29 November 2019, the 8th Chamber of Commercial Matters of the Regional Court of Düsseldorf ruled that the proprietor of the registered…
Month: November 2019
Esport: Liability for Cheating and Exploiting
Yesterday I promised to submit a brief contribution on the subject of civil or labour liability for cheating and exploiting in esport. The article should…
Data protection impact assessment: What is it?
With the introduction of the GDPR last year, there were numerous innovations and renaming of methods or renames. One of these is likely to be…
Esport: Toxic Behaviour and Civil Law
The problem So-called toxic behaviour is of course also a big problem in esports. But how is the whole thing to be assessed under civil…
BGH: NetzDG also applicable to messenger services and similar offers
An interesting verdict comes today from the Federal Court of Justice regarding the Network Enforcement Act. In the context of an appeal against a decision…
Federal Constitutional Court: Right to Be Forgotten I
Confernation The right to be forgotten decision published today, supplemented by the decision of the same day ‘Right to Forget II’(see this article),concerns a dispute…
Federal Constitutional Court: Right to Be Forgotten II
What is it all about? The decision entitled ‘Right to be forgotten II’, published today, supplemented by the decision of the same day ‘Right to…
Game promotion: take advantage of opportunities with professional advice!
The situation The entire industry of computer game developers in Germany is certainly pleased that the Federal Government has decided to continue to invest 50…
Gambling costs money again II
For a while, courts tended to suggest that someone who participated in games of chance not licensed or authorised in Germany would be entitled to…
Typical errors in publishing contracts
Today at 7 p.m. the 19th Open Stage Games will take place in Stuttgart, where I will talk about typical problems in publishing contracts for…
BGH to decide on Yelp reviews in January
Facts The applicant claims that Yelp is injunctive relief, determination and damages for its assessment representations. As many will know, registered users on Yelp can…
OLG Brandenburg: Electronic data is not a thing!
The problem The OLG Brandenburger passed an interesting, if not too surprising, verdict for it, and in the process annulled the District Court of Potsdam.…
Business with customers in California? Attention CCPA
Who is it relevant to? On January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will enter into force in California, which is intended to…
Attention regarding promises in return for retweets or the like
The situation I have often written that, as a lawyer specialising in IT law and, in particular, as a lawyer who has a lot to…
OLG Köln: Jameda partially inadmissible
Overview The button, which had been abolished in the meantime and was used to display “other” doctors in the immediate vicinity on the profile of…
Google Analytics only with consent?
What does data protection say about statistical tools? Are they allowed? And under what conditions? Is it enough to use anonymization options? I recently published…
Twitter must not block accounts for no reason
The topic of how US social networks such as Twitter, Facebook or Instagram deal with German law has become increasingly controversial this year and one…
“Gaffer” photos and upskirting soon a criminal offense
The Federal Cabinet today approved the draft law on the improvement of the protection of privacy in image recordings, presented by the Federal Minister of…
Some news about ITMediaLaw.com
Since I always try to optimize ITMediaLaw and offer my typical clients, such as esports teams, streamers, influencers, marketing agencies or game developers, an extremely…
Telephone provider must not threaten with improper blocking
What is it all about? If a mobile phone company threatens its customer to block its connection in the event of non-payment of a disputed…