Current Articles
In this section you will find the latest publications by our lawyers
In this section you will find the latest publications by our lawyers
The German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) has ruled that in cases of counterfeit and pirated goods, banks may be obliged under the law to disclose the identity, name and address of the account holder involved in the sale. The decision was handed down on 21 October 2015, following an earlier preliminary ruling by […]
In December 2015, the local district court of Berlin decreed that Facebook must grant the heirs of a deceased user access to the deceased’s Facebook account (Landgericht Berlin, Urteil vom 17.12.2015, Az. 20 O 172/15). Date: January 2016
Valve Corporation, the operator of the popular Steam online games platform, successfully withstood some pressure in Germany. Starting in 2013, the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband, an important German consumer protection organization, filed a law suit against Valve for alleged violation of consumer rights. The subject matter of the complaint was a clause in the terms and […]
GDPR and unfair competition – data protection pitfalls when doing business in Germany Dr. Marcus Dittmann, Rechtsanwalt Last updated 20 November 2018 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 […]
Dr. Marcus Dittmann (Rechtsanwalt) Last updated 27 September 2016 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 […]
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