Tag: Competition law

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 ...

Dear readers, I am currently looking for a trainee lawyer or a student who is interested in IT law and could write articles or blog ...

This question is currently not so easy to answer, because the case law is currently wildly mixed. Even in pre-DSGVO times, it was controversial and ...

Up to now, it has been the rule rather than the exception in competition law and copyright law that in the case of a preliminary ...

According to the ECJ, if someone publishes several sales advertisements on a website, this does not automatically establish the activity as a "trader". This can ...

For my original post, see here. Background The European Commission has fined Valve, the owner of the online PC gaming platform "Steam," and five publishers ...

From last year's experience, I would like to accumulate in this article ten tips that YouTubers and streamers on the Twitch platform should seek legal ...

In the meantime, there are more than 1500 articles on the topics of IT law, competition law, copyright and everything related to social media and ...

Actually, as a birthday child you get gifts. But since I am completely satisfied, I distribute presents myself until the end of the week. Anyone ...

What is it all about? If a mobile phone company threatens its customer to block its connection in the event of non-payment of a disputed ...

The Federal Court of Justice has to decide whether, in the way a game is offered there, in the way in which a game is ...

Since I have now seen some warnings in the last few weeks concerning the platform clothes circle, on which you can sell used garments both ...

The German government's draft law to strengthen fair competition(see my article here) will be discussed by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection in ...

Even if you never know for sure, it looks as if the UK will leave the European Union on 1 November 2019. Larger companies, with ...

I have been in the computer game industry for over 20 years and worked as a lawyer for over 12 years. Already because of my ...

The Federal Court of Justice currently has to decide whether the supplier of a product offered on the online trading platform Amazon is liable under ...

Anyone who has read about the blog here in recent months will have noticed that I am now very critical of the concept of a ...

The Federal Court of Justice has passed a judgment that could well have the potential to cause headaches for many online retailers and providers of ...

Today I would like to raise one issue, because many are hardly on their radar. That is the question of whether an injunction should be ...

Since a few weeks ago a client had approached me about a problem around customer reviews, today I would like to give a brief overview ...