Year: 2022

The legal term "access" is relevant to numerous legal issues. When exactly this is the case, however, can be disputed in individual cases, because well-known ...

Editorial work on the September issue of SpoPrax - Sportrecht und E-Sportrecht in der Praxis has been completed. I too have contributed an interesting article ...

The III Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible among other things for service contract law, has ruled that Section 656 ...

It is always surprising to come across judgments that are provoked by the parties based on actual clearly formulated laws and relevant case law. The ...

The Federal Constitutional Court reversed a very controversial decision of the Dresden Higher Regional Court in favor of my client and upheld a constitutional complaint ...

An Internet store fulfills its obligation to provide proper cancellation instructions even if the corresponding hyperlink leads to two different cancellation instructions for the purchase ...

The I. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice today ruled in three proceedings on the question of whether female influencers have violated the ...

Do standard NFTs fall under the MiCAR crypto framework? Probably not. Neither the EU legislator nor local supervisory authorities, such as BaFin in Germany, want ...

The issue of whether and when the sale or trading of NFTs is subject to the prospectus requirement is brand new and difficult to answer ...

After I recently explained in detail how you could finance your startup or esports organization etc. with the help of blockchain instruments, today I would ...

The Federal Ministry of Finance, together with the supreme tax authorities of the German states, has prepared a draft BMF letter on the income tax ...

The Cologne Fiscal Court has ruled that the purchase and sale of virtual land in a computer game is subject to VAT. The facts of ...

Many innovative visionaries who combine IT and law are now asking whether we actually need a Civil Law 4.0 to be able to implement the ...

Right now I hold in my hands the first legal journal dedicated to esports law. It aims to present esports law in practice and hopefully ...

The ECJ has ruled that the EUIPO wrongly invalidated a design patent for a LEGO toy building block. Lego is the owner of a design ...

Attention: Due to the explosive nature of the current situation, this blog post must not be understood as concrete legal advice - as is actually ...

Today I became aware of a decision of the Berlin Regional Court that obligated a sender of a confirmation e-mail to cease and desist. The ...

In the meantime, there have been numerous rulings on the question of whether it is permissible to grant customers benefits when they submit ratings or ...

In a decision from October last year, the Higher Regional Court of Cologne obliged the provider Cloudflare, which many website operators use for services such ...

In addition to the client portal (see this article), I am finalizing a collaborative contract creation portal for a near-term launch in January 2020. The ...