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As an experienced lawyer for IT and media law, I regularly handle cases of invoice fraud and misdirected bank transfers. In this detailed blog post, ...

My law firm is seeing an increasing number of cases in which clients have become victims of bank transfer fraud and have been taken in ...

Introduction In everyday practice, there are always clients who have fallen victim to fraud through Apple Pay. These cases require careful examination in order to ...

Introduction Recently, an interesting issue was brought to my attention by a tax accountant friend. Over a cup of coffee, he told me about a ...

What is BaFin? BaFin is the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority and is the German supervisory authority for credit institutions, insurance companies, financial service providers and ...

AI & copyright is a new and important topic that worries many people. It is important to understand this issue so that neither providers nor ...

Introduction The digitization of larger sectors encounters organizational, technical and legal problems. The potential applications of blockchain technology offer a unified solution in almost all ...

Introduction From the first game console in 1972 to millions of games on the smartphone, a lot has changed in the digital gaming world. The ...

Regulation of DLT (distributed ledger technology) is a hot topic in the crypto world. Many executives and decision makers are wondering how blockchain technology should ...

The Ordinance on Requirements for Electronic Securities Registries (eWpRV) specifies the requirements for maintaining electronic securities registries under the Electronic Securities Act (eWpG), which entered ...

Introduction In Germany, startups still try to finance themselves in the classic way: Business Angel, capital from Friends & Family, a lot of work and ...

The Cologne Fiscal Court has ruled that the purchase and sale of virtual land in a computer game is subject to VAT. The facts of ...

The German Federal Supreme Court today ruled that companies may charge their customers a fee for payment via Sofortüberweisung or PayPal if the fee is ...

The ECJ has ruled that a borrower cannot claim compensation for use of amounts received in the course of performing the contract after revoking a ...

The sale of mobile games or even in-app sales of computer games via app stores constitutes a service commission under VAT law. This was decided ...

The tax exemption provision of Section 11 para. 1 sentence 2 InvStG old version is compatible with the free movement of capital. This was decided ...

There are two types of legal texts that almost no one reads, but they can have enormous legal effects. Terms and conditions and privacy policy. ...

In Germany, we live under federalism, and therefore the various state banks and other institutions in this country are what counts. States have begun posting ...

An IT employee is obligated to protect sensitive customer data and may not misuse it for other purposes. A breach of these duties usually justifies ...

Attention game developers. Many studios are currently in the application phase for Germany-wide funding from the BMVI. However, there is one major weakness here. I ...