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The I. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible for copyright law, has ruled in two cases that the operators of a news channel and a [...]
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A commission of three arbitrators of the dispute resolution board for domain names with the toplevel designation ".eu" has [...]
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In a decision announced on February 2, 2010, the Cartel Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) upheld a price reduction order issued by the Hessian state cartel authority [...]
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Even before the amendment of the Copyright Act (UrhG), it was generally accepted that in the event of a justified warning notice, a property right holder should bear the costs [...]
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