Tag: Development

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 ...

Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (mabb) and Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia-Dienstanbieter e. V. (FSM), as well as JusProg e. V. as a respondent, have reached a settlement before the ...

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, ...

Sweepstakes on social media are a great way to build customer loyalty or even to grow your own social media channels. However, the legal requirements ...

The Federal Cabinet today approved the draft of the Annual Tax Act. It contains numerous amendments to various tax laws. Among other things, this law ...

Based on the selection of legal news here on the blog, it should be apparent that I represent many, many Esports teams and players as ...

Open Stage, what is it? Whether independent development studios or large publishers, fresh graduates or recruiters looking for graphic designers - the most diverse players ...

Almost one year after the entry into force of the General Data Protection Regulation, the European Commission today published a report in which it examines ...

This is currently good news for streamers and YouTubers, as well as everyone who has to face youth protection issues on the Internet, especially in ...

As a lawyer, I mainly deal with issues of IT law and media law, advising startups, streamers, influencers and other media creators on copyright, competition ...

In principle The VIII. Civil Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice today issued a landmark ruling on which activities a company is permitted ...

The de minimis funding for the games industry has been a resounding success, with 380 applications already received by the Federal Ministry of Transport and ...

Gaming and eSports have long since arrived in the mainstream of society. Since the invention of the first computer games, gaming as a hobby has ...

Yesterday evening, a decision was made in Brussels that many legal experts, but above all Internet companies and institutions, consider to be a fire hazard ...

Tomorrow, a symposium for lawyers focusing on computer games and digital media will be held in Frankfurt. I will also be there tomorrow in the ...

The German Olympic Sports Confederation has rejected eSports or, as the professionals from Frankfurt call it, eGaming, and refused to recognize it as a sport. ...

The Federal Court of Justice has published the full reasoning of the Adblock II decision ( I ZR 154/16 ). The tenor was a) The ...

The new law firm website is slowly taking shape and I can also specify what I plan to do with the site. IT Media Law.com ...