Tag: Urheberrecht

The Federal Constitutional Court reversed a very controversial decision of the Dresden Higher Regional Court in favor of my client and upheld a constitutional complaint ...

Do standard NFTs fall under the MiCAR crypto framework? Probably not. Neither the EU legislator nor local supervisory authorities, such as BaFin in Germany, want ...

The Cologne Fiscal Court has ruled that the purchase and sale of virtual land in a computer game is subject to VAT. The facts of ...

In a decision from October last year, the Higher Regional Court of Cologne obliged the provider Cloudflare, which many website operators use for services such ...

The issue of whether US SaaS providers can be used permissibly or whether products such as Jira, Zendesk, various CRM systems and others do not ...

The I. Civil Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible among other things for copyright cases, has ruled that operators of ...

The ECJ is doing a roll backwards in its legal interpretation when it comes to framing. For more on the topic and the role of ...

The ECJ is expected to rule soon on legal issues relating to the liability of content platforms. According to Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe, operators of ...

On August 20, 2019, the Munich Local Court ordered the defendant wife and mother from Starnberg to pay damages in the amount of 1,391.00 euros ...

This article addresses a specific issue in German law regarding the legal status of e-sports players. But it is also about the issue of professionalization ...

I would like to continue to provide as good an overview as possible of judgments in IT law, e-commerce, esports, games, competition law, copyright law ...

Unlike the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court a few years ago in a case I represented, the Naumburg Higher Regional Court recently ruled that it is ...

What legal form should you aim for if you want to start or professionalize an esports team? The answer to that is actually a classic ...

Even if it is always such a thing to call something a new field of law, but at the latest with the second Esport Law ...

The Federal Court of Justice has once again ruled on the question of the conditions under which the rights of the phonogram producer are infringed ...

There are more and more freelancers in Germany, and as the general Corona hysteria continues to promote remote working, more and more people might get ...

The Federal Court of Justice ruled that the publication of book articles by a member of the Bundestag on an Internet news portal was permissible.Facts ...

An interesting ruling from my field of IT law comes from the Kammergericht in Berlin. It deals with the question whether a virtual object constitutes ...

The ECJ today published a decision on the Enforcement Directive, which deals with rules of conduct in license agreements. The decision of the ECJ Accordingly, ...

Great YouTubers often have a large following. Accordingly, third markets often form around them. These include apps called "Soundboard." However, these are usually a violation ...