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A prominent athlete does not have to accept that alienated portraits of him are disseminated without his consent. This has been decided by the [...]
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The defendant operates retail stores. In order to advertise its carnival costumes, it used in sales brochures in January 2010 the photographs of a [...]
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The I. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible for copyright law among other things, has once again dealt with the admissibility under copyright law of the distribution of "used" [...]
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The I. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible among other things for competition law, ruled today that it is neither misleading nor [...]
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The response to a collective request for information from the tax investigation department cannot be refused on the grounds that the secrecy of the data is private [...]
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