German appeals court outlaws links to websites offering circumvention technology
am 09.08.2005 von http://www.immateriblog.de/A Munich court of appeal upheld a lower court ruling, demanding that German IT news service Heise Online remove a link to Slysoft.com, an Antigua based company selling …
Censorship: Internet Reporter
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Today, in JungleWorld, the immateriblog.de writer Mathias Spielkamp reports on censorship in German law with respect to links to software that are deemed illegal even in objective news reports about the existence of such softw
Liability for Related Contracts
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. The owner of a remotely sited house ordered from one company the installation of a power and heat plant, and from another company a heating system that draws on the plant. When the building is not properly heated, the owner r
Value Judgment and Defamation
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / GC - Washington. In addressing the liability of an internet forum provider, the court of appeals, OLG, in Koblenz, Germany decided July 12, 2007 in the matter 2 U 862/06 that it is within the scope of freedom of expression to criticize a busi
Circumvention? Heaven forbid - its video copy-amplifying!
immateriblog.de / After six years of litigation, German company ViTec Audio-Video GmbH came out on top: An appeals court in Düsseldorf ruled that ViTec did not infringe on Macrovisons patents (LG Düsseldorf 40150/ 99, OLG Düsseldorf 2 U 62/ 00 - the...
Software Reports Illegal
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. The issue of whether reports on software may be illegal will go before the Munich appellate court on July 28, 2005. Recent European and German developments in copyright law purport to protect consumers from learning of softwa
Software Service Contracts Terminable
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / JN - Marl. Most business software solutions require servicing to keep pace with new developments and changing demands. However, purchasers may not forever rely on the support from software developers, the Koblenz appellate court, Oberlandesge
Relief for Websites
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. The Fachschaft-Jura blog reports of an appeals court ruling from Hamm that appears to reduce the obligations imposed on website operators under German law. The court held no statutory or other rule in German or European Union
Royalties on Printers
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. In 2001, the German Supreme Court in Karlsruhe, Bundesgerichtshof, ruled in favor of copyright royalties payable on scanners, and the revised copyright act extends the payment obligation to printing euqipment and other gear s
Criminal Forfeiture for Siemens
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / LL - Washington. On May 14, 2007, the Darmstadt district court convicted two former Siemens managers of kickbacks in commerce, embezzlement and assisting bribery in commerce in a yet unpublished verdict. Both managers received sentenc
Transatlantic Testament
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Recht-in.de published a recent decision, IV ZR 135/03, dated July 7, 2004, by the German Supreme Court on the validity of a holographic will made by a German testator with respect to real estate in Florida. The last will does
Extradition Stopped
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / SWM - Berlin. The German Constitutional Court, Bundesverfassungsgericht, stopped the extradition of German citizen Mamoum D. to Spain. D. is suspected of supporting terroristic groups, including Al Quaida, since the late nineties. Most of the
German Federal Constitutional Court decision in English/Bundesverfassungsgericht Entscheidung auf Englisch
Transblawg / The decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of 14th October 2004, which was widely commented on in the press - it deals with how far German courts are obliged to enforce decisions of the European Court of Human Rights -...
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