Year: 2022

BaFin will not object if payment service providers based in Germany execute card payments on the Internet until December 31, 2020, even without strong customer ...

In principle The VIII. Civil Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice today issued a landmark ruling on which activities a company is permitted ...

Since I was asked about it. Both the political and legal situation is completely different from what it was 12 years ago. The issues from ...

The de minimis funding for the games industry has been a resounding success, with 380 applications already received by the Federal Ministry of Transport and ...

The topic of WLAN also occupies people on vacation and thus also courts, when there are disputes about reductions in the travel price. The plaintiff ...

The use of automated voice assistants from providers such as Google, Apple and Amazon is proving to be highly risky for the privacy and intimacy ...

Last year, the Geoblocking Regulation was launched(see this article), and violations can result in severe fines(see this article). Now the Federal Network Agency is putting ...

The First Civil Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible among other things for claims under the Unfair Competition Act, has ...

1. preliminary remark For years, there has been a debate in Germany about whether schools can use Microsoft's Office 365 software in a privacy-compliant manner. ...

Sometimes there are judgments that are just fun to read! A citizen of the Reich brought an action before the Cologne Administrative Court to be ...

Gaming and eSports have long since arrived in the mainstream of society. Since the invention of the first computer games, gaming as a hobby has ...

Guiding principle? Foodstuffs from territories occupied by the State of Israel must indicate their area of origin and, if they come from an Israeli settlement ...

The Regional Court of Koblenz has ruled that an Internet provider may no longer give the impression that one of the routers offered is required ...

You should also evaluate your own lawyer fairly on the Internet, otherwise you will be threatened with unmade. Pure defamatory criticism is in fact subject ...

The German Parliament's Scientific Service has produced an expert report warning about the dangers of Alexa (and other similar gadgets are not exempt) for children ...

One believes to have had many problems in trademark law at least once on the table or to have evaluated them with colleagues and clients, ...

As you can see from my blog posts, there are many things to consider when it comes to warning letters, even aside from the question ...

The almost innumerable consumer protection standards often require that the consumer information is placed directly on the advertising material, first and foremost among others the ...

As of September 1, 2019, the Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection established an additional Civil Panel at the Federal Court of Justice, which ...

Covertly obtained sound and film material may give rise to a claim for injunctive relief, even if it is not broadcast. Even the disclosure to ...