Tag: Bgh

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

The German Federal Court of Justice recently issued an interesting decision on questions of costs of a warning letter if the claims asserted in the ...

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

And another BGH decision today, shortly before Christmas. However, it is not really a surprise ;) Thus, the latter ruled that photographs of (public domain) ...

An interesting, but in this respect, based on the case law of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), consistent ruling was made by the Regional ...

While domains were actually just an address at the beginning of the Internet hype, they are increasingly becoming an economic asset. It is not for ...

The I. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible among other things for competition law, today ruled that the brokerage of ...

The Advocate General of the ECJ has today commented on the issue of music sampling and is of the opinion that sampling, i.e. the electronic ...

I have already dealt with the topic of abusive cease-and-desist letters here on the blog a few times, and the basic questions have actually been ...

Although the concept of the warning notice, contrary to the often expressed opinion of many non-lawyers, is basically a very good and clever system in ...

In its judgment of September 13, 2018, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled under the case number I ZR 117/15 that a video channel ...

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

The Federal Court of Justice has published the full reasoning of the Adblock II decision ( I ZR 154/16 ). The tenor was a) The ...

The Cologne Higher Regional Court (OLG) prohibited the use of the domain www.wir-sind-afd.de, rejecting an appeal against the identical judgment of the Cologne Regional Court. ...

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has issued an interesting decision on the right of expression and Youtubers. Under the file number Az. I ZB ...

The BGH has ruled on the question of the requirements for consent to telephone advertising and the storage of cookies on the user's end device. ...

If a flight ticket of a foreign airline is booked via a German-language website that is maintained entirely from abroad in terms of technology and ...

What is it all about? On Yelp, users can rate companies by awarding one to five stars and one text. The Internet portal displays all ...

Uber's mediation of rides to car rental companies is anti-competitive, the district court's board said. In Uber's business model, the court found various infringements of ...

In three appeal proceedings, the Federal Court of Justice considered the use of test seal marks as a violation of the trademark proprietor's rights in ...