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The I. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible, among other things, for trademark law, has decided whether the administrative contact person, who is responsible for the registration of a [...]
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A federal ministry may not reject a request for access to official information - in this case, in-house documents relating to a legislative procedure as well as statements to [...]
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The plaintiff is the Free State of Bavaria, whose territory is divided into seven administrative districts. The defendant is DENIC, a cooperative [...]
Learn morePermissibility of image use in Google Image Search - Part 2
The I. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), which is responsible for copyright law among other things, has once again ruled that Google cannot be held liable for copyright infringement [...]
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