Tag: Warning

Legal experts have been pointing out the risk of offering the direct debit procedure due to the Geoblocking Regulation (see this article) for some time. ...

The Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main recently ruled that in a case where participation in a competition is subject to consent to future ...

Only recently there was a lot of debate in relevant forums as to whether loot boxes should actually be regarded as a gamble in Germany. ...

Important verdict Recently, the Higher Regional Court made a highly interesting ruling on the issue of labeling affiliate links (see my article on this in ...

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 ...

In a recent judgment, the Landgericht Duisburg ruled that the obligation to take back old electronic devices also applies to online shops. Such a company ...

All affiliates affected After my article yesterday on the judgment of the OLG Dresden(see here) that a website must also label links to affiliate partners ...

The District Court of Hildesheim has put a stop to Amazon, by means of an injunction, forbidding its well-known practice of simply freezing funds. Amazon ...

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, ...

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), ...

The Nuremberg District Court has issued an injunction prohibiting the blocking of a Twitter account based on the tweet "Current reason: Urgent election recommendation for ...

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 ...

Almost unnoticed, the Bavarian State Agency for New Media published a new version of the joint youth protection guidelines (JuSchRiL) of the federal states at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Comparison to influencer sneaking advertising I have already written in the blog about the current verdicts on influencers and sneaky advertising. You can read about ...

The problem of influencer sneaking advertising The District Court of Hamburg agrees with the rulings on influencers and sneaky advertising. So far, only the Munich ...

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 ...