Despite the new State Gambling Treaty and a trend in recent years for courts to affirm repayment claims by customers of gambling providers, the question of how providers abroad (whether licensed in Malta or not, for example) should deal with German customers remains difficult to answer.
This also includes many open legal questions, with those that I have to answer for clients in the area of blockchain and gambling in particular, of course.
But the Joint Gambling Authority of the Federal States (GGL) is not making much progress either and has had to accept a number of setbacks in the fight against illegal gambling in recent months. For example, in its ruling of February 3 (3 L 2261/22), the Düsseldorf Administrative Court declared GGL’s orders to telecommunications service providers to block illegal gambling websites to be unlawful. A few days earlier, the Higher Administrative Court of Rhineland-Palatinate (Ref.: 6 B 11175/22.OVG) had already ruled that there was no legal basis for the closures. The Berlin Administrative Court (4 L 505/22) has just agreed with this and consequently ordered the suspensive effect of the Internet provider’s action against the GGL’s blocking order.
Marian Härtel ist Rechtsanwalt und Fachanwalt für IT-Recht mit einer über 25-jährigen Erfahrung als Unternehmer und Berater in den Bereichen Games, E-Sport, Blockchain, SaaS und Künstliche Intelligenz. Seine Beratungsschwerpunkte umfassen neben dem IT-Recht insbesondere das Urheberrecht, Medienrecht sowie Wettbewerbsrecht. Er betreut schwerpunktmäßig Start-ups, Agenturen und Influencer, die er in strategischen Fragen, komplexen Vertragsangelegenheiten sowie bei Investitionsprojekten begleitet. Dabei zeichnet sich seine Beratung durch einen interdisziplinären Ansatz aus, der juristische Expertise und langjährige unternehmerische Erfahrung miteinander verbindet. Ziel seiner Tätigkeit ist stets, Mandanten praxisorientierte Lösungen anzubieten und rechtlich fundierte Unterstützung bei der Umsetzung innovativer Geschäftsmodelle zu gewährleisten.
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