Internet Contact Data Explained
am 23.05.2008 von http://www.recht.us/amlawCK - Washington. A 2007 decision recently added to the MIR index reminds the author of crazy German laws and an unimaginative decision. The spam-friendly statute on the identification of internet users, Telemediengesetz, also requires web writers to state contact information. Is a contact form sufficient, or is the statement of an email address necessary? Its the statement, the Essen district court warned an Internetter on September 19, 2007 in the matter 44 O 79/07. The statute wants a statement, not merely a means to contact the web publisher, it writes. That rules out a contact form on a web site or innovative means other than an email address. Technically, the decision makes no sense. A contact form can use the mail SMTP protocol which queues an email notice to the recipients POP or IMAP or web email box, just like an email client would. A statement such as mail2://mailform@r3cht.us is no better than a statement like http://recht.us/mailform. The latter is safer and minimizes spam traffic. But thats not what the Essen courts fourth commercial division held In the Name of …
Domain Contact Liable
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Irrational as it may appear, German courts are beginning to hold administrative contacts for domain names civilly liable for omissions of legal requirements and violative acts. The HeymsBahr blog reports of an August 24, 2004…
EMail Published, Protected Like Letter
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. A Cologne court called the publication of an EMail a violation of personality or privacy rights of the sender. The matter 28 O 178/06, decided on September 9, 2006, involves an EMail from a corporation that the recipient appa…
Go Phish: Fax, EMail, Europe
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. While the new Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2005, S. 714, enables spammers to freely contact those who publish fax numbers on the internet, see proposed 47 USC §227(b)(1)(C)(ii)(II), Europe makes spammers even happier with i…
Sanctity of EMail
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / ACP - Washington. The Karlsruhe Court of Appeals, Oberlandesgericht Karlsruhe, decided a controversy between a university in Baden-Wuerttemberg and a former science employee that the purposeful filtering of EMails could be punishable under Ger…
Stop the Impressum Craze
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. The Supreme Court in Karlsruhe displayed common sense when it scrutinized the scope of statutory obligations to publish identifying information on certain web sites. On July 20, 2006, it rebuffed the pixel pickiness expressed…
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…
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