Year: 2022

The Frankfurt am Main Regional Court has ruled that Facebook can terminate an account with a user if the user refuses to undergo the identity ...

The German government has presented a bill to strengthen consumer protection in competition and trade law. This is intended to bring German law into line ...

On January 31, 2020, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the "United Kingdom") withdrew from the European Union. Following the provisions of ...

Esports team "Team 33" recently announced that it has added one of the youngest eSports players in the world, Joseph Deen (known in the gaming ...

In line with my article today regarding Cloudflare(see here), due to a recent decision by the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision, I would ...

The issue of whether US SaaS providers can be used permissibly or whether products such as Jira, Zendesk, various CRM systems and others do not ...

On November 3, 2020, the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection presented drafts for the implementation of the Digital Content Directive and the contractual ...

The Düsseldorf Regional Court has ruled in a preliminary injunction proceeding that the UWG amendment of December 2020 did not completely abolish the so-called "flying" ...

In a decision dated December 15, 2020 (Case No. I-4 W 116/20), the 4th Civil Senate of the Higher Regional Court of Hamm had to ...

The Ninth Chamber for Administrative Fines of the Bonn Regional Court today ruled that the fine imposed by the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and ...

Today an exciting interview with me went online, which the "ZAP - Zeitschrift für die Anwaltspraxis" published. The journal is aimed primarily at practitioners among ...

Many consumers might be annoyed by the cookie banners on any websites. As a consumer, I can well understand this and, even as a data ...

On the question of whether and how affiliate links on websites must be identified, there have already been several decisions in the recent past, for ...

There are always judgments that make even a longtime lawyer smile. For example, the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main has to deal with ...

The German Federal Supreme Court today ruled that companies may charge their customers a fee for payment via Sofortüberweisung or PayPal if the fee is ...

Since I had to deal with some major player contracts this week, or rather recreate them for international teams, I would like to end the ...

Currently, I am working and planning on a major change that I hope will roll out in 2021. Although I am already extremely digitally accessible ...

Today, the new "Law on Strengthening Fair Competition" came into force, but in the opinion of many colleagues, it does not deserve its name, as ...

In a decision dated October 29, 2020, the Regional Court of Cologne made an interesting decision on the subject of cookies 1. the setting of ...

The I. Civil Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible among other things for copyright cases, has ruled that operators of ...