Year: 2019

Today I would like to raise one issue, because many are hardly on their radar. That is the question of whether an injunction should be ...

Again and again I have to make it clear to clients who stream videos on Twitch or on YouTube that everyone has a right to ...

Time and again, the question arises in the area of computer game tenants whether game rules are protected or whether one should "copy" them. The ...

In the last week I have invested a lot of work to make my website multilingual, so that all texts as well as navigation and ...

There is currently a start-up trend in Germany that has evolved from the need for collaborative development of software and/or project development for startups. The ...

In the meantime, the first rulings on the Trade Secrets Act are trickling in and, as I wrote in this article, you should act now ...

Since a few weeks ago a client had approached me about a problem around customer reviews, today I would like to give a brief overview ...

On 26 August 2019, the 1st Cartel Senate of the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf, chaired by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kühnen, ordered the suspensive effect ...

The data protection authorities from Bavaria have published a collection of questions and answers on data protection on websites. Questions are included if and under ...

VG Media brought an action for damages against Google before the Berlin Regional Court, alleging that Google had infringed the copyrights of its members. VG ...

The Supreme Court in Portugal is currently dealing with a legal dispute over forms and models of fashion and other clothing. Under EU law, intellectual ...

Time and again in esport, accusations arise in individual teams about match fixing, i.e. the deliberate loss of games in order to manipulate rankings and ...

The Federal Administrative Court has ruled that the operator of a company page on Facebook may be obliged to shut down his fan page if ...

Anyone who occasionally follows my blog may have noticed that I am an opponent of insisting in politics that esport is recognized as a sport. ...

Advertising statements and the UWG are often not really close friends and the jurisprudence to misleading representation or statements is extremely extensive. The Higher Regional ...

Since 26 April 2019, the new Trade Secrets Act has implemented an EU directive that has so far received little attention in many companies. In ...

Based on the feedback of a client from me, I would like to warn against new fraudulent payment requests after registration of an EU trademark. ...

Here on the blog I report regularly about the streamer and influencer should use professionally created contracts for their own advertising agreements. As a rule, ...

In a case I represent, the District Court of Neukölln has ruled that an account in the World of Warcraft game can only be blocked ...

I have already written something here on the question of whether loot boxes should be considered gambling. A few provocative legal statements on the Free2Play ...