Year: 2019

For several years I have been supersing esport teams, streamers, influencers as well as sponsors and agencies in the digital sector. While larger companies can ...

Did you already prepare sending out Christmas cards? I could bet that a detail that the State Commissioner for Data Protection in Rhineland-Palatinate considers necessary ...

Introduction Today is here on the blog the day of legal questions around the imprint. Hence a quick answer today about what or who needs ...

There is always controversy and uncertainty around the imprint obligation of social media profiles, but also of profiles on Twitch or YouTube channels. There are ...

Those who operate a website usually want to know how often it is visited, whether there are regular users, from which countries they come and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Confernation The "Right to be Forgotten I" decision published today, which is complemented by the "Right to be Forgotten II" decision of the same day(see ...

What is it all about? The decision "Right to be Forgotten II" published today, which is supplemented by the decision of the same day "Right ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today at 7 pm the 19th Open Stage Games will take place in Stuttgart, where I will talk about typical problems in publishing contracts for ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

To the overview The Higher Regional Court of Cologne issued an exciting ruling yesterday, which also provides information on the permissible design of many other ...