Customer reviews on the Internet
Since a few weeks ago a client had approached me about a problem around customer reviews, today I would like to give a brief overview…
Tag: Warning
LG Munich: Affiliate links must be sufficiently identified!
Important verdict Recently, the Higher Regional Court had issued a highly interesting ruling on the issue of the identification of affiliate links (see my contribution…
Attention: Affiliates on YouTube, gaming websites and other networks
All affiliates affected According to my article yesterday on the judgment of the OLG Dresden (see here) that a website must also mark links to…
No more phone numbers in the cancellation declaration?
The ECJ has recently taken a landmark decision on the issue of providing a telephone number in the imprint(see this article). Now I got some…
OLG Frankfurt on Influencer & Sneaky Advertising
If an influencer recommends a product without specifying its commercial purpose, this constitutes prohibited disguised advertising if he or she is working full-time with the…
Time and again: Advertising with warranty conditions
Time and again, advertising with guarantees for certain products is a case for the courts. Sometimes it’s eBay itself, sometimes it’s missing conditions, sometimes it’s…
Attention to Analytics without anonymization
Actually, it is an old hat that you should not use Google Analytics in Germany without AnonymizeIP. There is a threat of warnings, damages and,…
Can Amazon view alternative products in search?
The I.E. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible for trademark law, among other things, has to decide whether an internet…
BGH on Liability for Video Uploads of Third Parties
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…
Customer reviews through sweepstakes? Warning!
Sweepstakes are a tried and tested means of marketing for many online retailers, both on their own website and in the social media sector. With…
Influencer: Federal Government wants to create new regulation
Although the case law around influencers is currently subject to a clear trend, which can be clearly seen in various posts on the blog, the…
Copyright: Dispute value cap per subject matter of dispute
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…
OLG Köln decides on click-baiting
A programme magazine has to pay a well-known TV presenter 20,000 euros because it has illegally used his image as a “click bait”. This was…
Attorney’s fees of a warning association not refundable
If a competition association itself has issued a warning and asks the admonisher to provide further explanation of this warning, the costs incurred by the…
LG Stuttgart: GDPR violations cannot be warned
The dispute between different courts over whether data breaches can be warned by competitors is somewhat similar to whether and what influencers need to identify.…
Promotion with discount codes = sneaky advertising?
Comparison to influencer sneaking advertising I have already written in the blog about the current verdicts on influencers and sneaky advertising. You can read this…
LG Hamburg on Influencer Advertising and “Sponsored Content”
The problem of influencer sneaking advertising The District Court of Hamburg agrees with the rulings on influencers and sneaky advertising. So far, only the District…
Liability trap BFH judgments on VAT in case of warnings
Before i go to the University-Augsburg to the Esport-Recht Institute today, to attend the first meeting tomorrow with other experts on the subject, I would…
LG Berlin considers GDPR violations to be recalled
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…
BFH, copyright warnings and VAT
A judgment of the Federal Finance Court has been in place since 2016, which seems to be unknown to many lawyers – AND – courts.…