Esport is the spearhead of digitalization?
Recently, discussions with clients from the esports industry or potential investors and sponsors who find the field of esport interesting are increasing about how to ...
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BGH: is Adblock dominant as a provider?
Adblock provider Eyeo is involved in numerous litigation and has now also lost a case in the Federal Court of Justice in antitrust matters. The ...
BGH on the OS-Link (EU Dispute Settlement Platform)
Now and then, as a lawyer, I suspect that colleagues and courts are too boring when they decide on legal priorities in everyday life. There ...
Slicing the Pie Agreements at Startups
There is currently a start-up trend in Germany that has evolved from the need for collaborative development of software and/or project development for startups. The ...
Denmark: sport recognition of esport irrelevant; A role model for Germany?
Anyone who occasionally follows my blog may have noticed that I am an opponent of insisting in politics that esport is recognized as a sport. ...
Trade Secrets Protection Act: Act now!
Since 26 April 2019, the new Trade Secrets Act has implemented an EU directive that has so far received little attention in many companies. In ...
KJM and youth protection developments in the games industry
The KJM has recently been making a name for itself mainly due to the Jusprog problem(see this article), which currently means that computer games rated ...
Meanwhile: more than 1000 articles on IT/IP legal issues on the blog
In the meantime, there are more than 1000 articles on IT legal issues, in particular on competition law, copyright, trademark law and other legal issues ...
Legal analysis and finding solutions to the DOSB expert opinion on esport
What is it all about? Currently, the report commissioned by the DOSB to assess whether esport can be regarded as a sport is making a ...
OLG Köln makes extensive claim for information under GDPR
In a judgment of 26.07.2019, the OLG Köln interpreted the right to information from the General Data Protection Regulation very broadly. Even if the judgment ...
OLG Munich or “Gambling costs money again!”
The issue of gambling, the State Contract of Gambling and payments to providers is not only very relevant, but also has its own facets. Thus ...
Let’s stream plays on events? What about the protection of minors?
I'm currently receiving a number of inquiries about the impact of youth protection legislation and the JusProg problem(see this article) on how to deal with ...
Play from 4 p.m. to stream only from 10 p.m.? The JusProg Dilemma
On 15 May 2019, the Commission for the Protection of Youth Media (KJM) declared the JusProg youth protection programme ineffective in accordance with Section 19b ...
Laser tag endangering young people? Administrative court decides
Is Lasertag a sport/recreational event that endangers young people? This is at least as controversial a question as the question of the youth danger of ...
ECJ: Amazon doesn’t have to offer users a phone number
The Federal Association of Consumer Centres and Consumer Associations, Consumer Association of the German Federal Association of Consumers, sued Amazon before the German courts with ...
Esport and the concept of sport – let it stay
Yesterday the hearing took place in the sports committee of the Bundestag and with a few exceptions no one really wanted to follow the demands ...
Ban on distribution? Online retailers and packaging law!
Attention! As of Tuesday, there will be a new legal hurdle, for example for online retailers, namely the new packaging law. According to unverified figures, ...
Esport Association for the Promotion of Youth?
As already explained in this article, the linchpin in assessing whether an association can be recognized as a non-profit organization is Section 52 of the ...
Article series: Legal problems around esport as a club
In a report from the Hamburger Sportbund last Friday Should an e-sports department be located in a sports club in the ideal area and with ...
Disabled sport spurns esport as well
The German Disabled Sports Association (DBS) also clearly positioned itself today against the inclusion of Esport, thus also missing an opportunity. For Secretary General Thomas ...
Asset Deal
Introduction In the business world, there are various methods of acquiring companies or parts of companies. One of these methods...
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In dieser Episode erörtern wir die rechtlichen Herausforderungen, denen Spieleentwickler bei der Finanzierung durch Crowdfunding gegenüberstehen. Wir beleuchten die Verpflichtungen...
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Startups und Innovation in Deutschland – Herausforderungen und Chancen
In dieser aufschlussreichen Podcast-Episode wird ein tiefgreifender Blick auf die Startup- und Innovationslandschaft in Deutschland und Europa geworfen. Die Diskussion...