Tag: Laws

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 ...

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 ...

The rental of an apartment without permission to use the apartment as an apartment via Airbnb, here for violation of the Hessian Housing Supervision Act, ...

The problem Freedom of the press is a great asset in the Federal Republic of Germany and we can all be thankful to our parents/grandparents ...

In principle, the question of whether a statement should be punished as an insult or protected by freedom of expression must be decided by means ...

In a recent judgment, the Landgericht Duisburg ruled that the obligation to take back old electronic devices also applies to online shops. Such a company ...

Skillgaming? I have just completed an expert opinion on the admissibility of Skillgaming under Section 284 of the German Criminal Code (StGB) and the Gambling ...

As recently as last year, the OLG Köln decided that someone who opposes the blocking of their own Facebook account because of alleged hate postings ...

Especially in start-ups or smaller media companies that I supervise, the matter of accurate time recording is not taken so seriously. The clock hardly exists ...

In data protection law, the question of whether the General Data Protection Regulation contains market conduct rules and whether infringements can therefore be warned by ...

The Federal Court of Justice currently has to decide whether a collecting society may make the conclusion of a contract for the use of digital ...

Of course, products containing batteries are also sold via online shops. These products must be reported to the Joint Take-Back Scheme. In addition, great care ...

Again and again you see pages or companies that make certain goodies, such as a download of something, dependent on the user signing up for ...

Gambling in Germany Gambling providers continue to have a good time in Germany. Only recently, the Regional Court of Koblenz ruled that the freedom to ...

Some online services offer a fiduciary process for your business model when customers interact with each other. This is also useful per se, as it ...

At the end of January this year, the Regional Court of Bochum ruled that the age restriction for alcoholic beverages also applies to online sales. ...

A popular warning topic for online retailers, be it in their own online store or on trading platforms such as Amazon and/or eBay, is the ...

Since I again advised a client last week on the subject of data protection in his online shop, the question of admonisherability also arose. I ...

Traders on Ebay should be careful that non-German traders misuse their own VAT ID. The reason for this behavior are probably changes in the law, ...

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 ...