Legal Update Games Law 2018-2019 Germany Claas has given an update on recent developments in German law for computer games at the International Games Law Summit in Vilnius 2019. As of the request of participants you can download the slides here.
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 […]
The Berlin District Court has ruled that the original practice of Facebook regarding its Friendfinder function and certain terms and conditions are illegal and unenforceable under German law (Landgericht Berlin, Urteil vom 6. März 2012, Az. 16 O 551/10, press release with link to the decision to be found here, German language).
