Legal challenges for influencers when making critical statements about companies
In current legal practice, there is an increasing number of cases in which influencers are involved in legal disputes due ...
Tag: Expression
Creating podcasts: What to look out for legally
Podcasts are becoming increasingly popular and have become an integral part of the media landscape. They offer a great opportunity ...
AI and the law: An analysis of 47 US Code § 230 and its implications
As you know, much has already been written on this blog about the legal issues surrounding artificial intelligence (AI). Today, ...
Calling someone a “stupid piece of brain vacuum” on Facebook is unlawful abusive criticism
What is it all about? The 4th Civil Senate of the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart has ordered the author ...
Legal strategies against unauthorized blocking of social media accounts
Introduction: In my legal practice, I regularly encounter cases in which commercial clients, in particular influencers, are confronted with the ...
OLG Frankfurt on the expression of opinion due to cooperation Querdenker movement
The plaintiff objects, among other things, to the statement published in the defendant national daily newspaper, according to which it ...
Age restriction: What YouTubers can learn from the latest OLG Schleswig ruling
A new precedent: what was the starting point? YouTube provides us with a powerful platform to share thoughts and ideas, ...
Facebook and the NetzDG
The Münster Higher Administrative Court recently ruled in an urgent decision that the obligation to provide a counter-appeal procedure provided ...
OLG FFM: No deletion but supplementary claim on a homepage
The decision If a lawyer reports on a court victory on his homepage and if this decision is later overturned ...
“Usury” is a permissible rating on eBay
The VIII Civil Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible, among other things, for the law ...
BGH rejects delisting request against Google!
The BGH has ruled in two cases, rejecting the delisting request in one case (confirming the first two instances) and ...
Combating hate and incitement on the Internet
On July 3, 2020, the Bundesrat approved the Act to Combat Right-Wing Extremism and Hate Crime on the Internet, which ...
Block social media accounts for hate speech?
The Koblenz Regional Court had to rule on so-called hate speech in social media and on the effectiveness of the ...
BGH: Press organ may publish unsolicited book manuscripts
The Federal Court of Justice ruled that the publication of book articles by a member of the Bundestag on an ...
“Piece of shit” is an insult
Last year, the Berlin Regional Court caused a stir when it ruled that a large number of "expletives" used against ...
BVerwG confirms ban on linksunten.indymedia
As a rule, only the prohibited association itself is entitled to challenge the prohibition of an association, not, however, association ...
Fack ju Göthe may be registered as a trademark
One believes to have had many problems in trademark law at least once on the table or to have evaluated ...
Kramp-Karrenbauer wants to limit expression of opinion by influencers
Actually, I try to keep the blog here relatively free of political topics, because otherwise you get bogged down with ...
LG Dresden: Once again unjustified Twitter blocking
After the Regional Court of Nuremberg-Fürth recently issued an injunction prohibiting Twitter from blocking an account because of a tweet ...
No Google deletion claim from DSGVO
The Dresden Higher Regional Court has ruled that the General Data Protection Regulation does not give rise to a claim ...