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Yes, I really am Angela Merkel

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • Germany
  • -
  • May 4 2013

Facebook can keep forcing its German users to disclose their real names in order to register for and continue using the social network, after an

German court rejects DPA’s appeal, finds Irish law applicable to Facebook in Germany

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
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  • Germany, Ireland
  • -
  • April 24 2013

On April 22, 2013, the higher Administrative Court of Schleswig issued two decisions rejecting an appeal by the data protection authority of

To infringe or not to infringe? German Federal Supreme Court decides on sampling of music

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • March 25 2013

Section 24 (1) of the German Copyright Act permits the publication and exploitation of an independent work that is created in free use of a work of

Facebook keeping it real in Germany

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • March 2 2013

Facebook users in Germany will have to disclose their real names to register for and continue using the social network, after a German court ruled

The privacy battle continues between Germany's ULD and Facebook

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • Germany
  • -
  • February 20 2013

One more chapter to the never ending story of the protagonist Facebook and ULD, the data protection authority of Schleswig-Holstein, has been written

German Data Protection Authority goes head to head with Facebook on pseudonymous accounts

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Germany
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  • February 4 2013

Facebook Inc. (US) and Facebook Ltd. (Ireland) have come into major conflict with the Schleswig Holstein Data Protection Commissioner (ULD) as well

UNIDROIT space assets protocol

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • Germany
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  • January 31 2013

On 21 November 2012 Germany signed the controversial Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on Matters Specific to Space Assets (Protocol). The

Retail sector e-briefing: Germany: refinement of legislation regarding keyword advertising: no trademark infringement if advertisement is strictly separated from search results

  • Eversheds LLP
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  • Germany
  • -
  • January 22 2013

The Federal Court of Justice has refined the legislation regarding keyword advertising and trademark infringement by keyword advertising. Even if a

Direct marketing rules of the road

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Germany
  • -
  • January 21 2013

The legal requirements concerning direct marketing are becoming ever less transparent. What requirements do I have to comply with when I call someone

Insult to the instructor on Facebook

  • Oppenhoff & Partner Rechtsanwälte
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  • Germany
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  • December 27 2012

The Higher Labor Court of Hamm decided in its judgment of 10 October 2012 that a trainee was effectively dismissed without notice for good cause since he