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The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has confirmed in a ruling that the question of copyright infringements under German law on the internet depends on a sufficient domestic connection, in the assessment of which domain endings are also taken into account. The dispute between a group ...

... the matter to The Forum to conduct dispute resolution proceedings. And rightly so. There is no dispute resolution procedure like the UDRP for the German country code extension .de. From the point of view of DENIC eG, the administrator of the German extension, the German legal system provides sufficient ...

... strength of the law? Prof. Kleinwächter is not very positive: Europe's digital future is facing stormy times. You can find the full article (in German) by Prof. Wolfgang Kleinwächter at: https://background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisierung-und-ki/briefing/usa-vs-eu-ein-digitaler-sturm-zieht-auf ...

... accordance with Section 15 FAO for their continuing professional development. Further information and registration for the upcoming congress (in German) at: https://www.ruw-fachkonferenzen.de/veranstaltung/23-kit-kongress-13-forum-kommunikation-recht/

Following the conclusion of the 82nd ICANN meeting, eco - Association of the German Internet Industry is offering the “ICANN82 Readout”, in which highlights and “take-aways” from the annual community forum will be presented in an online event. As after the last ...

After discussing a very successful UDRP procedure of a German company last week, we briefly show two German companies that recently failed in UDRP proceedings. hydacservice.com - (WIPO Case No. D2024-4947) HYDAC Technology GmbH, founded in 1963, brought ...

... 32 fake shop domains in extensive UDRP proceedings before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The opponents remained silent. The German textile retailer Ernsting's family GmbH & Co. KG saw its trademarks infringed by numerous domains such as ernstingsfamilyoutlet-eu.shop, ...

... to .fr and .se domains; .de domains can also be tested. The current version supports seven languages in the user interface (unfortunately not German), which itself is very simple and only requires a domain to be entered in the search mask. The test itself then takes a few seconds. For 2025, ...

... at our improvements with an open mind, because one thing is clear: the current situation urgently needs to be improved,” says Götte. Source (in German): https://michaelgoette.ch/bundesrat-will-telefonbetruegern-das-handwerk-legen/

... sharply recently, for various reasons. For example, the Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (KJM) instructed the five largest German internet providers to block a website due to “extremist propaganda content” at the end of 2024; the authority also had numerous other domains ...