VG Media loses at the ECJ over performance protection law 13. September 2019 VG Media brought an action for damages against Google before the Berlin Regional Court, alleging that Google had infringed the...
ECJ rules on copyright protection of forms and models 13. September 2019 The Supreme Court in Portugal is currently dealing with a legal dispute over forms and models of fashion and other...
Free software also enjoys copyright 2. August 2019 Time and again you can see that it is believed that free software, especially shareware or freeware, can be packed...
Sampling may or may not infringe copyrights! 29. July 2019 Kraftwerk's long-running trial of Moses Pelham and Martin Haas seems to be coming to an end. Today, the ECJ has...
OLG Frankfurt and copyright logo protection 15. July 2019 The issue of copyright protection of logos is always the basis of litigation. This applies especially when logo generators from...
Attention to the contract with a photographer 8. July 2019 For this reason, I would like to point out once again that operators of online shops similar websites with many...
Exploitation rights to articles of an editor 28. June 2019 My career in the gaming industry started as the operator of a computer game magazine (before that I was editor...
Pictograms can be copyrighted 24. June 2019 In a recent ruling, the Frankenthal District Court stated that pictograms can also be protected by copyright and therefore cannot...
Twitch and use of music? 21. June 2019 Background music in Twitch? Especially in live streams on Twitch, background music from well-known sources is often taken. Or it...
Copyright: Dispute value cap per subject matter of dispute 11. June 2019 On 24.05.2019, the Mannheim Regional Court ruled that the value of the subject-matter for the calculation of the right to...
OLG Celle: Capping of warning costs for file sharing 22. May 2019 Currently there is an interesting verdict from the OLG Celle regarding warnings and complaints in the field of file sharing....
Liability trap BFH judgments on VAT in case of warnings 16. May 2019 Before i go to the University-Augsburg to the Esport-Recht Institute today, to attend the first meeting tomorrow with other experts...
BGH decides again on keyselling 14. May 2019 The topic of keyselling is diverse and also peppered with countless false (legal) information. In addition, some law firms, which...
BFH, copyright warnings and VAT 13. May 2019 A judgment of the Federal Finance Court has been in place since 2016, which seems to be unknown to many...
Copyright infringement by framing? The ECJ please! 25. April 2019 The Federal Court of Justice currently has to decide whether a collecting society may make the conclusion of a contract...
Claim for damages for online city map copyright infringement 23. April 2019 In fact, I could have swear that the subject of warnings and injunctions for the illegal use of city maps...
Attention when downloading and using photos 10. April 2019 For this reason, I would also like to refer here in the blog a brief reference to the so-called Cordoba...
Federal Constitutional Court, File Sharing and Children 4. April 2019 The Federal Constitutional Court has accepted a constitutional appeal to the decision "Loud" of the Federal Court of Justice and...
Linux vs. VMware: Opensource in court 29. March 2019 As a copyright holder, you are always dealing with open source licenses such as GPL in the different versions or...
BGH: Women also gamble on first-person shooters 12. March 2019 In a file-sharing case, the Federal Court of Justice has ruled that a woman is eligible as the perpetrator of...
Law on the Internet Private AI use in the company 24. October 2025 Private accounts on ChatGPT & Co. for corporate purposes are a gateway to data protection breaches, leaks of secrets and... Read moreDetails
Startups and innovation in Germany – challenges and opportunities 26. September 2024 This insightful podcast episode takes an in-depth look at the startup and innovation landscape in Germany and Europe. The discussion... Read moreDetails
My transparent billing 10. February 2025 In this video, I talk a bit about transparent billing and how I communicate what it costs to work with... Read moreDetails