Tag: Regulation

What is it all about? At the request of Seven Towns, a British company which, inter alia, manages the intellectual property rights in the 'Rubik's ...

GDPR vs. Archiving Obligations In recent weeks, a new discussion has flared up around one of the numerous legal issues in the GDPR. As if ...

New referral procedure of the ECJ The ECJ will deal with interesting questions from the file-sharing sector in a referral procedure, which could also concern ...

The EU's ePrivacy Regulation was supposed to be adopted together with the GDPR last year, but endless debates continue to delay this very relevant legislation. ...

The ECJ has just ruled on the subject of cookies in the Planet49 case(see this article). Because of this procedure and my mail, I have ...

At the end of last month, the district court of Frankfurt am Main delivered an interesting verdict that answered some questions in relation to GDPR ...

The Federal Court of Justice has ruled that the sale of baked goods in bakery branches with café operations on Sundays is also permitted outside ...

The following article was originally written by Andrea Rizzi from www.insightlegal.it and published by me here on the blog in German after consultation. Italy has ...

A hangover is a disease. Advertising statements that a dietary supplement is intended to prevent or reduce its consequences for alcohol is contrary to the ...

Steam and other providers of computer game licenses are currently under pressure in Europe to violate the Geo-blocking Regulation(see this article). Now there is more ...

In a case I represent, the District Court of Neukölln has ruled that an account in the World of Warcraft game can only be blocked ...

Legal experts have been pointing out the risk of offering the direct debit procedure due to the Geoblocking Regulation (see this article) for some time. ...

Today, the ECJ has taken a highly interesting decision on trade mark law, which could well have the potential to change certain legal interpretations of ...

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 ...

At the end of last year, I reported that the Advocate General of the ECJ had recommended that the ECJ decide that a website operator ...

Only recently there was a lot of debate in relevant forums as to whether loot boxes should actually be regarded as a gamble in Germany. ...

Even if esports men are more likely to be the energy drink consumers, locations such as esports bars or LAN arenas are quite wondering whether ...

Yesterday I stumbled upon an interesting ruling by the Supreme Court in Vienna. For Austria, the latter has finally decided that an e-mail that is ...

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 ...