Abuse of Prosecution
am 28.03.2008 von http://www.recht.us/amlawCK - Washington. Prosecutors and courts are short on resources in North Rhine-Westphalia. Huge sums are spent on their criminal investigations of alleged copyright violations by Internet users. The Wuppertal D.A. is now in trouble with the music industry and the justice department because the office refuses to process mass complaints filed by the music industry. Aside from the expense, the dispute involves a systemic issue in German civil procedure. Discovery in civil matters relies frequently on the results of a criminal investigation which the prosecution shares with complainants. The music industry got used to D.A.s identifying violators which …
Germany: P2P Prosecutions Bring Unacceptable Workload
Law & Justice / I just came across this interesting article on CoCo (Rik Lambers) about P2P prosecutions in Germany. The public prosecutor of the German district Karlsruhe fears getting crushed under the workload of (future) P2P-prosecutions presented to him by the…
IP Address for Private Suitors
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. The release of IP addresses by ISPs to private parties may be technically useless but in Germany, it can violate constitutional protections afforded Internet users. A May 21, 2008 order from the Frankenthal district court dis…
Inviolability of Law Offices
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Searches of, and seizures in, law offices require enhanced constitutional scrutiny, the German Constitutional Supreme Court in Karlsruhe decided. In its press release of May 29, 2008, the court emphasizes the general inviolab…
OECD Studie Musik und Internet
Aktenvermerk / Schon am Freitag hatte orf.at berichtet, heute Montag wurde die dazugehörige Studie “Digital Broadband content: music” veröffentlicht. Darin versucht die OECD an das Thema “Online-Music” neutral heranzugehen und das…
Musical Fishing Expedition
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. A purported copyright owner of musical titles requested, with an emergency petition, from an internet access provider detailed contact information of its customer who operates an FTP server via a domain name and a dynamically…
Identity of EU file sharers should be protected in civil suits: ECJ advisor
Handakte WebLAWg / European Court of Justice Advocate General Juliane Kokott [official profile] told the European Court of Justice (ECJ) [official website] in an advisory opinion [text, in German] Wednesday that European Union (EU) governments should resist disclosing…
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