On September 27, 2024, the Regional Court (Landgericht) of Hamburg, a court of first instance (the “Court”), dismissed a cease-and-desist claim by the photographer Robert Kneschke against LAION e. V. that the scraping of his...more
10/4/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Cease and Desist Orders ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Data Mining ,
EU ,
Germany ,
Machine Learning ,
Opt-Outs ,
Software ,
The Copyright Act ,
Training ,
Web Scraping
To help organisations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical digital regulatory and compliance...more
10/12/2022
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Competition ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Marketplace ,
Digital Service Providers ,
Digital Services ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Germany ,
Net Neutrality ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
OFCOM ,
Online Platforms ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Telecommunications ,
UK
As part of the new Fair Consumer Contracts Act, Germany will soon require specific cancellation/termination mechanisms for consumer subscriptions. These mechanisms come on top of the updated EU-wide consumer contract rules...more
10/7/2021
/ Cancellation Rights ,
Compliance ,
Consumers ,
Digital Services ,
E-Commerce ,
EU ,
Germany ,
Online Platforms ,
Subscription Services ,
Termination ,
Websites
With a judgment dated April 27 and published on June 4, 2021, the German Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof – the “Court”) declared unfair and therefore illegal and unenforceable a common way to make changes to terms and...more
The German Federal Supreme Court presses the EU Court of Justice to clarify when online platforms are liable under EU law for damages for copyright infringements by content made available by their users.
Content uploaded...more
In This Issue:
- Transactions Involving Digital Media in Europe: Know the Source
- New Framework on Market Abuse in the European Union
- Current Developments
..“Made in Germany” Attracts Foreign...more