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ECJ provides clarification on jurisdictional issues relating to infringements of personality rights on the Internet

  • Stibbe
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • October 26 2012

On 22 October 2011, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued a judgment in which it clarifies which courts have jurisdiction in case of an infringement of personality rights on the Internet

Public broadcasting bodies are covered by procurement rules

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • January 30 2008

Following a reference from a German court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) gave a ruling in late 2007 (in C-33706), that a public broadcasting body could be regarded as being "financed by the state" and therefore under the scope of the public procurement rules, if it receives more than 50 per cent of its revenue from fees levied on citizens pursuant to state measures

L’Oréal v. eBay: the Court of Justice of the European Union tightens liability of online marketplace operators the CJEU

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • European Union, France, Germany, United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 11 2011

The long awaited decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in L’Oréal v. eBay was handed down last month

CJEU rules that website owners have nowhere to hide

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • March 22 2012

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that where a person being sued on the basis of the content of a website cannot be traced, they may be sued in the courts of the place where the harm caused by this content occurs

German Federal Supreme Court sends adwords question to the ECJ

  • Wragge & Co LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • January 23 2009

Yesterday the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) published its keenly anticipated decisions on three adword cases

Germany pushing for closer look at Google’s digital book plans at EU level

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • June 3 2009

Concern is growing among some EU member states over the possible effect on European rights-holders of a class-action settlement with Google as part of its project to digitise books

Prohibition of planned funding for digital terrestrial television in Germany

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • October 26 2007

The European Commission has found that German plans to finance part of the fees paid by commercial broadcasters for the transmission of their programmes on the digital terrestrial television network in the German Land of North Rhine-Westphalia are incompatible with EC State aid rules

Germany fails to obstruct the Tobacco Advertising Directive

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • February 5 2007

Germany’s attempted challenge to the latest Tobacco Advertising Directive (“Directive”) has failed (C-38003

James Bond fails to keep Dr No captive

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • July 3 2009

There was good news for international super villains across the world recently as one of their number, Dr No, saw the rights to his name released from the clutches of James Bond and awarded to a German media group

ECJ confirms a broad interpretation of "extraction" from a protected database

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • October 10 2008

The ECJ's decision in Directmedia Publishing GmbH v Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Case C-30407, 9 October 2008) confirms that, for the purposes of infringement, "extraction" of data from a protected database should be interpreted broadly and can include transfers made after individual assessment of the data by the user

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