Tag: Urheberrecht

Does the geoblocking regulation I reported on here actually apply to apps and/or computer games? And if so, under what conditions? After initial considerations, the ...

Software developers should be concerned about another negative consequence of the EU copyright reform. In addition to the right to information, a right of recovery ...

Up to now, it has been the rule rather than the exception in competition law and copyright law that in the case of a preliminary ...

The owner of an internet connection through which copyright infringements through file sharing have been committed cannot exempt himself from liability by simply naming a ...

From last year's experience, I would like to accumulate in this article ten tips that YouTubers and streamers on the Twitch platform should seek legal ...

By today's judgment, the Court of Justice has held that the release of an e-book for permanent use to the public by downloading falls within ...

In the meantime, there are more than 1500 articles on the topics of IT law, competition law, copyright and everything related to social media and ...

Actually, as a birthday child you get gifts. But since I am completely satisfied, I distribute presents myself until the end of the week. Anyone ...

I regularly receive sponsorship agreements from clients with which companies or advertisers want to engage with esports teams or enter into cooperations with streamers. However, ...

The problem The OLG Brandenburger passed an interesting, if not too surprising, verdict for it, and in the process annulled the District Court of Potsdam. ...

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 ...

On Friday, I said a few words about the new streaming platform Mixer from Microsoft(see this article). Actually, I wanted to make a new contribution ...

Currently, Microsoft has started a real battle of the streaming giants with its streaming platform Mixer, as the software giant first acquired Ninja from Twitch ...

Creating and correcting publishing contracts for computer games is just as much my day-to-day business as contracts for freelancers and other agreements. Again and again, ...

Even if you never know for sure, it looks as if the UK will leave the European Union on 1 November 2019. Larger companies, with ...

The Federal Constitutional Court rejected a constitutional appeal by Axel Springer against the judgment of the Federal Court of Justice against the action of Axel ...

I have been in the computer game industry for over 20 years and worked as a lawyer for over 12 years. Already because of my ...

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 ...

Today I would like to raise one issue, because many are hardly on their radar. That is the question of whether an injunction should be ...

Time and again, the question arises in the area of computer game tenants whether game rules are protected or whether one should "copy" them. The ...