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Mininova forced to remove torrents linking to copyright material
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- December 14 2009
The internet offers lots of opportunities for the development and exploitation of information products on secondary markets
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
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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- 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 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
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
Rapidshare held liable for user generated content that infringed copyright
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- Germany
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- February 4 2009
In Germany it is an established principle that a host can be made liable to monitor user generated content that infringes copyright
Recent German court judgments question legitimacy of image searches
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- Germany
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- February 4 2009
In five parallel proceedings against Google and ISPs using search engines of different providers, the Hamburg Regional Court decided that an image search facility infringes German copyright law (308 O 4206, 308 O 24807, 308 O 11506, 308 O 11306, 308 O 40406
Frankfurt court holds that using a third party's trade mark as Google AdWords is not a violation of German law
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- Germany
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- August 31 2008
The opinion (file number 6 W 1708) of the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt, known as the Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt, is shared by other major German Higher Regional Courts (Köln, Düsseldorf and Munich), whereas other Higher Regional Courts (such as of Stuttgart, Dresden and Braunschweig) have a dissenting view
User identity behind dynamic IP addresses - a minefield for authorities and ISPs
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- Germany
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- March 18 2008
Generally German law does not entitle rights holders to request disclosure of information about customers who have taken illegal actions (i.e. copyright infringement by sharing protected material) from an internet service provider ("ISP"
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