The Freename Forum

... will be moderated by Dr Thomas Lapp (Frankfurt/M) and Stephan Schmidt (Mainz). The agenda is now available. On the first day, the focus will be on legal issues relating to artificial intelligence. Anja Wyrobek asks ‘Who is liable for artificial intelligence errors?’ and discusses key elements of ...

NIS-2 casts its shadow ahead: the .de registry DENIC eG has announced how it will react to the planned legal changes, which are expected to apply in Germany from the second quarter of 2025. By 17 October 2024, each of the 27 EU member states would have had to transpose the ...

... is based on the fact that fewer and fewer unclear and more and more clear cases of cybersquatting are being filed. The parties are following the legal development and formation of the UDRP. Trademark owners in particular have become more sensitive to the requirements placed on them. In turn, ...

... Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, wants to hold domain registrars more accountable in the fight against “fake news”. He threatened legal remedies in the event of failures. At the beginning of September 2024, the US Department of Justice announced that it had foiled a foreign influence ...

... from New York started a second UDRP procedure shortly after losing it. In doing so, it did not reflect the grounds for the decision from the first legal dispute, but only attempted to correct one point that was not relevant to the decision. In a June 2024 UDRP proceeding at The Forum, Authentic ...

... the bloggers at netzpolitik.org have published a draft bill that aims to establish the “quick freeze” procedure favored by the liberal party. The legal situation seemed clear: in its ruling of September 20, 2022, the ECJ confirmed its case law according to which the German regulations on data ...

... policy processes. The review is limited to the existing trademark law framework of the UDRP and is based on the practical experience of panelists, legal advisors, parties and providers. A draft report is currently being prepared and is expected to be made available to a wider public in early 2025. ...

... meeting in Cologne in May 2024, the congress organised by the Bayreuth Working Group for Information Technology - New Media - Law (AKIT) and the legal journal ‘Kommunikation & Recht’ from Deutscher Fachverlag GmbH will once again take place in Berlin at Google in 2025 as an on-site event ...

... transferred in a completely different industrial sector than the one in which the complainant operates. It should have been clear to her or her legal representative that there was no prospect of proving the mandatory requirement that the domain had been registered in bad faith. In the complaint, ...

... there will also be a Tikanga-based option. Tikanga is a term for Māori law; it is the customary law, attitudes and principles of the indigenous legal system that applied before the colonisation of New Zealand. The dispute resolution procedure for .nz also distinguishes between ‘mediation’ and ...