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German Federal Court of Justice finds that without right holders’ consent online private video recording services are only legal in very specific circumstances
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- Germany
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- December 14 2009
The German Federal Court of Justice ("Bundesgerichtshof" "FCJ") recently ruled on the legitimacy of online video recording services
Regional Court of Hamburg decides that online TV service Zattoo is illegal without right holders’ consent collecting societies’ and broadcasters’ consent is irrelevant
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- Germany
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- December 14 2009
In a dispute between film studios Warner and Universal against the German offering zattoo.de of online TV service Zattoo, the Regional Court Hamburg decided on 8 April 2009 (ref. no. 308 O 66008) that zattoo.de must not retransmit TV content without the consent of the original right holders
German court decides split of music online copyrights is invalid
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- Germany
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- October 27 2009
The Regional Court of Munich has decided that the music industry's common practice of splitting online rights into the mechanical reproduction right and the right to make publicly available and to subsequently claim licence fees for both rights separately conflicts with German copyright law
Hamburg court rules on copyright liability of RapidShare
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- Germany
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- October 27 2009
In its judgment of 12 June 2009 the Regional Court of Hamburg granted an injunction (cease and desist order) in preliminary proceedings in favour of the German music collecting society GEMA against the Swiss filehoster RapidShare AG
German Federal Supreme Court - printer levies
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- Germany
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- April 2 2009
In two landmark judgments of 6 December 2007 and 30 January 2008, the German Federal Supreme Court ("FSC") has ruled that the so called "reprographic copyright levy" implemented by the German legislator to compensate for licence-free copying made with traditional photocopiers does not apply to single function printers
German DENIC introduces one and two-letter domains for “.de” top-level domain
- Bird & Bird
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- Germany
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- January 11 2010
With effect from 23 October 2009 DENIC, the administrator of “.de” top-level domains, has changed its domain name guidelines to allow registration of second-level domains consisting only of one or two letters or consisting only of numbers
German court decides that the split of online music copyrights is invalid
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- Germany
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- December 14 2009
The Regional Court of Munich has decided that the music industry’s common practice of splitting online rights conflicts with German copyright law
Hamburg court rules on copyright liability of RapidShare
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- Germany
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- December 14 2009
In its judgment of 12 June 2009, the Regional Court of Hamburg granted an injunction (cease and desist order) in preliminary proceedings in favour of the German music collecting society GEMA against the Swiss filehoster RapidShare AG
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