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20. April 2010 —CK - Washington.   A German TRO in the matter 3-08 O 46/10 before the Frankfurt District Court orders a party to cease providing a link in that party's Twitter messages. The court received the petition on April 15, 2010 and decided on April 20, 2010. Unfortunately, the preliminary measure comes with…

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26. November 2009 —CK - Washington.   Who is the proper defendant in a domain dispute over a .de domain name? The Frankfurt district court held on November 16, 2009 in the matter 2-21 O 139/09, that the registrant of the domain and the administrative contact listed with the .de domain name are suitable targets. The m…

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4. August 2008 —CK - Washington.   The pendulum swings again: At least non-commercial German bloggers are not responsible for third-party comments, a Frankfurt court decided on July 16, 2008 in the matter 31 C 2575/07-01. The decision flies in the face of some rulings from other German courts which came close to im…

24. März 2008 —CK - Washington.   The German branch of the German America Law Association brings its various specializations together at the annual Joint Specialities Day. In 2008, the event will take place on April 19, 2008 in Frankfurt. Experts from the United States, Germany and other countries will present and…

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30. Januar 2008 —CK - Washington.   Along the zigzagging course of German rulings through the jungle of contributory liability for copyright violations, the Frankfurt court of appeals set a milestone now available at Medien Internet und Recht. The December 20, 2007 decision in the matter 11 W 58/07 applies §97 of th…

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8. Juli 2007 —CK - Washington.   Frequently, Europeans claim excessive extraterritorial effects of American laws but they are guilty of the same approach to regulatory oversight. A July 5, 2007 ruling of the Frankfurt administrative court in the matter 1 E 4366/06 subjects Swiss bankers to German rules, and other…

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8. Juni 2007 —CK - Washington.   The United States allocated $13.3 billion for the Marshall Plan to assist European recovery after WW II. Germany received $1.47 billion from the European Recovery Plan, as the program was officially known. According to The Economic Miracle's Watering Can in the Atlantic Times of J…

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26. November 2006 —CK - Washington.   The Frankfurt District Court ruled on November 23, 2006 in the matter 2-03 O 172/06 on the legality of commercially provided abstracts of book reviews under German copyright law. It found in favor of the web publisher of abstracts who based his summaries, including rare verbatim e…

14. Januar 2006 —CK - Washington.   On Friday, January 13, 2006, German trade rag Juve reports of a new German-French axis that grows out of the Berlin office of disintegrating Global Player firm of Haarmann Hemmelrath. Salans, a French firm that previously absorbed American and other French competitors, anticipates…

11. Dezember 2005 —CK - Washington.   A significant other of no fame may not be named in press reports on the life of a famous person with whom the noname other appears in public, the Frankfurt appellate court decided on July 26, 2005, docket no. 11 U 13/03, as reported on December 9, 2005 in the German LexisNexis leg…

5. August 2005 —CK - Washington.   Converting a client's ads from a text processor file to an HTML file, without more, is sweat of the brow-type work, not a copyrightable work under German copyright law, the Frankfurt Court of Appeals decided in the matter 11U64/04 on March 22, 2005. On August 4, 2005, Niko Härting…

4. Juli 2005 —CK - Washington.   An online demonstration that affected Lufthansa AG's internet service resulted in the conviction of one of the organizers on July 1, 2005. The judge in Frankfurt criticized the abuse of the power of the mouse and sentences the defendant of a fine of 900 Euros. The purpose of the d…

21. Oktober 2004 —CK - Washington.   advobLAWg links to an appellate ruling from Frankfurt, docket number 2Ss 39/03, that holds an unsolicited telefax not destructive for purposes of the criminal law. Paper, power and ink used for this type of correspondence are de minimis even though their use technically renders th…