ECJ for sale of “used” e-books
By today’s judgment, the Court of Justice has held that the release of an e-book for permanent use to the public by downloading falls within…
Category: Copyright
ECJ will deal with Bittorrent and the seeding of porn
New referral procedure of the ECJ The ECJ will deal with interesting questions from the file-sharing sector in a referral procedure, which could also concern…
ECJ: Is YouTube a copyright provider?
On Friday I lost a few words about Microsoft’s new streaming platform Mixer(see this post). Actually, I wanted to make a new contribution to whether…
Publishing contracts and recycling of code
Creating and correcting publishing contracts for computer games is just as much my day-to-day business as contracts for freelancers and other agreements. Again and again,…
Is it allowed to reproduce Italian cultural monuments in our own works?
The following article was originally written by Andrea Rizzi of www.insightlegal.it and will be published here in German and in an adapted version. The Italian…
Are rules of the game protected in Germany?
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…
VG Media loses at the ECJ over performance protection law
VG Media filed an action for damages against Google in the Landgericht Berlin for allegedly infringing the copyrights of its members. VG Media argued that…
ECJ rules on copyright protection of forms and models
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…
Free software also enjoys copyright
Time and again you can see that it is believed that free software, especially shareware or freeware, can be packed on your own servers/websites, as…
Sampling may or may not infringe copyrights!
Kraftwerk’s long-running trial of Moses Pelham and Martin Haas seems to be coming to an end. Today, the ECJ has ruled. The Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court…
OLG Frankfurt and copyright logo protection
The issue of copyright protection of logos is always the basis of litigation. This applies especially when logo generators from the Internet are used. But…
Attention to the contract with a photographer
For this reason, I would like to point out once again that operators of online shops similar websites with many graphics and photos pay close…
Exploitation rights to articles of an editor
My career in the gaming industry started as the operator of a computer game magazine (before that I was editor myself to finance my studies),…
Pictograms can be copyrighted
In a recent ruling, the Frankenthal District Court stated that pictograms can also be protected by copyright and therefore cannot simply be printed on T-shirts…
Twitch and use of music?
Background music in Twitch? Especially in live streams on Twitch, background music from well-known sources is often taken. Or it will adorn entire videos. If…
Copyright: Dispute value cap per subject matter of dispute
On 24.05.2019, the Mannheim Regional Court ruled that the value of the subject-matter for the calculation of the right to reimbursement of costs for the…
OLG Celle: Capping of warning costs for file sharing
Currently there is an interesting verdict from the OLG Celle regarding warnings and complaints in the field of file sharing. This concerns the transferability of…
Liability trap BFH judgments on VAT in case of warnings
Before i go to the University-Augsburg to the Esport-Recht Institute today, to attend the first meeting tomorrow with other experts on the subject, I would…
BGH decides again on keyselling
The topic of keyselling is diverse and also peppered with countless false (legal) information. In addition, some law firms, which currently represent publishers and software…
BFH, copyright warnings and VAT
A judgment of the Federal Finance Court has been in place since 2016, which seems to be unknown to many lawyers – AND – courts.…