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eco - Association of the German Internet Industry invites you to a short online discussion on January 22, 2025 on the topic of NIS2. Now that the legislator has not transposed the standard into national law in time, companies are asking ...

... 90,000 domains in 2023, it may even grow by over 270,000 domains in 2024. A certain degree of saturation also seems to have occurred with the German country extension .de. While there was still an increase of over 233,000 domains in 2023, there were only around 6,000 net domains more in the ...

While the duration of data retention was the only point of contention, the German government has now shown itself to be open to further discussions on the subject of data retention. This is suggested by statements from a government spokesperson. Three draft bills ...

The 12th German IT Law Day of the DAV IT Law Working Group (davit) will take place on 3 and 4 April 2025 in Berlin and online under the motto ‘IT Law between Innovation and Regulation’. The agenda is now almost complete. With ...

... the established case law on such matters. The complainant has had the surname Adler since birth. He considers his rights under Section 12 of the German Civil Code (BGB) (right to a name) to have been infringed and lodged a complaint with the CAC. There he argued, among other things, that the ...

... experience that refer to the previous domain holder. The court confirms further arguments of the defendant. With reference to the case law of the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH), the court recognised that the plaintiff, as a company, has a right of personality; however, ...

The Japan-based GMO Registry Inc., administrator of the top level domain .shop, is receiving prominent German support. Christian Voss, former Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of the trading platform Sedo, Michael Piotrowski, former Head of Marketing at InterNetX, and Claus Barche, ...

... period for IP addresses to combat serious crime’ (printed matter 20/13748). The FDP's draft bill provides for a revised Section 100g (6) of the German Code of Criminal Procedure and is based on the ‘quick freeze rule’. The Federal Government had agreed on this solution in principle; however, ...

... secretarial and assistance activities for companies and the granting of rights of use thereof using the ‘MONEYPENNY’ trademark registered with the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) and the conclusion of franchise agreements in this context. Defendant 2) is the owner of the German word mark ...

... the largest internet service providers worldwide. The defendant, Future Traders Corporation Ltd. based in the Netherlands, operates an exclusively German-language website on the internet at future-traders.com, through which it offers customers the brokerage of shares and bonds. By decision dated ...