In its ruling of June 22, 2010, VIII R 38/08, the German Federal Fiscal Court (Bundesfinanzhof) ruled that lawsuits with scanned signatures of the authorized [...]
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Many a phone owner has had a call where it rang only once (so-called "ping call"). If then [...]
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The plaintiff Regina Halmich was a professional boxer for many years, the defendant is an author and director of documentary films, the defendant a cameraman. [...]
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The 2nd Senate of the Cologne Fiscal Court has dismissed the actions against the allocation of the tax identification number (tax ID) in seven test cases. The [...]
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Under copyright law, reproductions of a work for personal use are permitted within certain limits. To compensate for the fact that the producers [...]
Learn moreYoutube banned from distributing content that infringes copyright
The Regional Court of Hamburg (LG Hamburg) has ordered "Youtube LLC." as operator of the Internet platform "Youtube" and "Google Inc." as the sole shareholder [...]
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