Year: 2022

A few days ago, I reported that the Düsseldorf Regional Court kept the flying jurisdiction for legal issues on YouTube alive(see this blog post). Now ...

The ECJ is expected to rule soon on legal issues relating to the liability of content platforms. According to Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe, operators of ...

According to its own statement, the federal government has not commissioned any separate expert opinions on the issue of Esport recognition. With regard to the ...

On August 20, 2019, the Munich Local Court ordered the defendant wife and mother from Starnberg to pay damages in the amount of 1,391.00 euros ...

After the German data protection authorities published a guidance document last year, the Planet49 case should now be known to every website operator and numerous ...

A draft bill for the Telecommunications Telemedia Data Protection Act, or TTDSG for short, is currently being circulated. According to the draft, this is intended ...

  The Federal Ministry of Finance is currently working on a "Guide to the Taxation of 'Social Media Actors'" so that influencers and bloggers are ...

As of 01.07.2020, the sales tax will be reduced. But, what do I need to pay attention to when I bill? While the baker around ...

An electronic generator of legal documents does not violate the Legal Services Act. This was decided by the 6th Civil Senate of the Cologne Higher ...

This article addresses a specific issue in German law regarding the legal status of e-sports players. But it is also about the issue of professionalization ...

Even as an IT lawyer, you should probably move with the times. I have therefore completely freed ITMediaLaw from Apache and Nginx on the server ...

If an interested party actually bids €1 for an eBay offer with the note: "Price €1", this does not lead to an effective purchase contract ...

By popular demand over the past few weeks, I will once again be hosting a webinar or Q/A (so you can ask questions) on esports ...

In a ruling dated September 9, 2020, the OLG Karlsruhe ruled that an influencer must label her posts on Instagram as advertising even if she ...

On the subject of player contracts, I have already written a great many here on the blog, e.g. on the subject of employee or contractor. ...

The Higher Regional Court of Hamburg has ruled that influencers do not have to explicitly label posts with product representations and manufacturer references as advertising ...

On the topic of when and whether an esports team should consider a player an employee or a contractor, I've written quite a bit here ...

The topic of Upwork and Fiverr is one of the most popular topics on my blog. Uncertainty seems to be high. In addition to what ...

Unlike the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court a few years ago in a case I represented, the Naumburg Higher Regional Court recently ruled that it is ...

In line with my article from yesterday regarding possible reclaim claims from clients against contractors, I received an inquiry from a "self-employed person", an "entrepreneur" ...