Copyright

Posting an image in the closed group on Facebook may be public copying and thus infringe copyrights. The Munich Regional...

The I. Civil Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible among other things for copyright law,...

The magazine Computer Bild was allowed to illustrate a text about DVB-T2 receivers in HD quality with a photo of...

The Frankfurt District Court has ruled that the owner of an Internet connection is liable for copyright infringements through file...

The use of images on the Internet in violation of copyright law, especially in blogs and the like, occurs time...

And another BGH decision today, shortly before Christmas. However, it is not really a surprise ;) Thus, the latter ruled...

Since I handled a related mandate at the end of last month, I'd like to briefly point out a major...

The Advocate General of the ECJ has today commented on the issue of music sampling and is of the opinion...

Up to now, it has been the rule rather than the exception in competition law and copyright law that in...

The owner of an internet connection through which copyright infringements through file sharing have been committed cannot exempt himself from...

By today's judgment, the Court of Justice has held that the release of an e-book for permanent use to the...

New referral procedure of the ECJ The ECJ will deal with interesting questions from the file-sharing sector in a referral...

On Friday, I said a few words about the new streaming platform Mixer from Microsoft(see this article). Actually, I wanted...

Creating and correcting publishing contracts for computer games is just as much my day-to-day business as contracts for freelancers and...

The following article was originally written by Andrea Rizzi from www.insightlegal.it and will be published here in German and in...

Time and again, the question arises in the area of computer game tenants whether game rules are protected or whether...

VG Media brought an action for damages against Google before the Berlin Regional Court, alleging that Google had infringed the...

The Supreme Court in Portugal is currently dealing with a legal dispute over forms and models of fashion and other...

Time and again you can see that it is believed that free software, especially shareware or freeware, can be packed...

Kraftwerk's long-running trial of Moses Pelham and Martin Haas seems to be coming to an end. Today, the ECJ has...