Wichtigste Punkte
- Das Amtsgericht Düsseldorf entschied, dass das Klicken durch mehrere Bildschirmebenen zu keinem Rechtsgeschäft führt.
- Die Verantwortung liegt bei der Unkenntnis des Nutzers, wenn er auf verborgene Aktivierungsbuttons klickt.
- Die Regelungen gemäß §§ 142 Abs. 1, 123 Abs. 1 BGB sind nicht anwendbar, da kein gültiger Vertrag zustande kommt.
- Dieses Urteil könnte Auswirkungen auf die WAP/WEB-Abrechnung und ähnliche Praktiken haben, die versteckte Kosten auslösen.
- In cases of so-called “WAP/WEB billing”, the user is made to believe that he is clicking on a video player button with his smartphone. The top “screen layer” that the user clicks on effectively “lets the click through” and the corresponding clickable areas are arranged to trigger the (invisible) activation button below, which ultimately does not pull the financial claim.
- The District Court of Düsseldorf has now ruled, in my opinion correctly and unambiguously, that if such a course of events is assumed, i.e. the unconscious “clicking through” of several layers, due to the lack of objective recognizability of such behavior to the outside world in legal transactions, not of several, according to §§ 142 para. 1, 123 par. 1 BGB, which can only be contested with ex tunc effect.
- Rather, in these cases, no contract would be concluded at all.
