Massive Copyright Violations?
am 18.09.2004 von http://www.recht.us/amlaw
CK - Washington. Criminal defense counsel Udo Vetter published a memorandum on his law blog addressing the criminal copyright issues that could affect buyers of movies, software and songs downloaded from the now-defunct website ftpwelt.com. ftpwelt.com was the very up-and-up looking commercial site that sold unlicensed products and was supported, among others, by a well-known attorney who specialized in the pursuit of copyright violators, see Sebastian Wolf-Marting, Fox Loose in the Henhouse.
Vetter establishes that …
Fees for Criminal Defense Counsel
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / MC - Washington. The Supreme Constitutional Court, Bundesverfassungsgericht , in Karlsruhe safeguards in its decision of March 30, 2004 the right to counsel and the exercise of the legal profession. Its recent redefinition of the mone…
Abuse of Prosecution
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - 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 mu…
Milestone in Copyright Jungle
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / 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,…
Links Remain Legal
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Internet links to web sites published by others remain legal in Germany, and the mention of names disclosed on such other sites is also legal, the Berlin district court confirmed in its April 20, 2006 judgment in the matter 27…
Tips vom Rechtsanwalt für ehemalige “FTPwelt”-Kunden
BERLIN BLAWG / Der auf Strafrecht spezialisierte Kollege Rechtsanwalt Udo Vetter gibt auf seinem Lawblog möglicherweise wertvolle Hinweise für ehemalige Kunden des illegalen online Software- und Videovertriebs “FTPwelt”. Viele Kunden von “FTPwel…
Copyright WebQuest
LAWgical / To develop an understanding of copyright law and how it applies to you, you need to develop a thorough understanding of what you are allowed to do under copyright, and, what you are not allowed to do. One way for you to get there is to critically ana…
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…
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