Tag: Urheberrecht

There is currently a start-up trend in Germany that has evolved from the need for collaborative development of software and/or project development for startups. The ...

VG Media brought an action for damages against Google before the Berlin Regional Court, alleging that Google had infringed the copyrights of its members. VG ...

The Supreme Court in Portugal is currently dealing with a legal dispute over forms and models of fashion and other clothing. Under EU law, intellectual ...

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 ...

Since the topic is topical in Germany, today a short execution on criminal responsibility for the operation of pirate servers. Back in February of this ...

In the meantime, there are more than 1000 articles on IT legal issues, in particular on competition law, copyright, trademark law and other legal issues ...

Time and again you can see that it is believed that free software, especially shareware or freeware, can be packed on your own servers/websites, as ...

Kraftwerk's long-running trial of Moses Pelham and Martin Haas seems to be coming to an end. Today, the ECJ has ruled. The Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court ...

Currently, there is a persistent discussion about whether videos from the game "Wolfenstein: Youngblood" can be shown in the English version on YouTube or Twitch ...

An overview for esport teams and streamers My blog is now full of legal questions and warnings that affect esports teams or streamers in one ...

The issue of copyright protection of logos is always the basis of litigation. This applies especially when logo generators from the Internet are used. But ...

In the meantime, a large amount of information for esports teams, esports players, streamers and influencers have come together on the blog. I would like ...

So slowly is the amount of judgments around deleted posts and closed accounts on social networks, and it is surprising that in many cases the ...

I often accompany startups in so-called asset deals. In principle, contracts are mentioned, for example, in which an online project, a computer game or other ...

My career in the gaming industry started as the operator of a computer game magazine (before that I was editor myself to finance my studies), ...

In a recent ruling, the Frankenthal District Court stated that pictograms can also be protected by copyright and therefore cannot simply be printed on T-shirts ...

The Federal Court of Justice has delivered an interesting verdict on the question of liability for video uploads of third parties! The decision was about ...

On 24.05.2019, the Mannheim Regional Court ruled that the value of the subject-matter for the calculation of the right to reimbursement of costs for the ...

For this reason, I would like to draw attention today to a problem that repeatedly falls on the feet of agencies, but also of other ...

Currently there is an interesting verdict from the OLG Celle regarding warnings and complaints in the field of file sharing. This concerns the transferability of ...