Hinweis: Dies ist eine Aktualisierung der früheren Artikel aus den Jahren 2016, 2017 und 2018, siehe: Berlin District Court: Facebook must grant heirs access to a deceased person’s account (2016). Berlin Court of Appeals: Facebook is not obliged to grant heirs access to a deceased person’s account (2017) German Federal Court of Justice: Facebook must […]
Agile Software-Entwicklung ist in vielen Projekten eine Methode der Wahl. Sie wird im Allgemeinen als eine Methode auf dem neuesten Stand der Technik betrachtet, die im Gegensatz zu traditionelleren Ansätzen, die auf sorgfältig ausgearbeiteten Plänen, Meilensteinen und Zeitplänen basieren, Flexibilität und Endergebnisse in den Vordergrund stellt. Agile Projekte beinhalten typischerweise eine gemeinsame Anstrengung selbstorganisierender und […]
When drafting contracts for the use of artificial intelligence, smart algorithms and deep learning tools, a number of special features of the subject matter must be taken into account. This is more than normal standard software. Various types of contracts are conceivable, as is usually the case in IT law, for example: The “Sale“ of […]
GDPR and unfair competition – data protection pitfalls when doing business in Germany Companies operating business websites in Germany have to be careful to ensure compliance to German laws. Among other things, German laws require that companies must provide certain legal information on their commercial websites and company homepages, specifically provider identification and address etc., […]
German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH, Urteil vom 12. Juli 2018, Az. III ZR 183/17) ruled that Facebook must indeed grant the heirs of a deceased user access to the deceased’s Facebook account.
Note: This is an update to this author’s earlier article from 2016, see: Berlin District Court: Facebook must grant heirs access to a deceased person’s account (2016). In December 2015, the Local District Court of Berlin had decreed that Facebook must grant the heirs of a deceased user access to the deceased’s Facebook account (Landgericht […]
The German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) has ruled that it may no longer be legal to commercially offer bots for online games (BGH, Urteil vom 6. Oktober 2016, I ZR 25/15 – World of Warcraft I). Bots are automatic programs that can perform certain in-game tasks on their own without assistance by the […]
(BGH, Urteil vom 19.01.2017, Az. I ZR 242/15) Der Bundesgerichtshof hat am 19. Januar 2017 ein Urteil zur Reichweite der Panoramafreiheit gefällt. Inhaltlich geht es in diesem Fall um eine interessante und bislang in höchstrichterlicher Rechtsprechung und Fachliteratur ungeklärte Fallkonstellation aus dem Urheberrecht.
In September 2016 the European Court of Justice handed down a judgement which many observers believe could endanger the freedom of placing hyperlinks, thereby compromising a core functionality of the Internet and free speech (European Court of Justice, judgement of 8 September 2016 in Case C 160/15 – GS Media vs. Sanoma/Playboy vs. GeenStijl, see […]
Machine-generated data is increasingly gaining in importance and relevance to business activities. Cloud services, online and mobile user activities, server logs, vehicle telemetry, car-sharing services, sensor data, processes in the manufacturing and transport industry generate huge amounts of data. In Germany, a prominent buzzword for this is Industrie 4.0. The internet of things and smart […]
