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Youtube faces damages and injunction in germany for infringing user uploads

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • October 26 2010

In response to a complaint originally filed in October 2009, a state court in Hamburg, Germany recently ordered YouTube to pay damages to the owners of three Sarah Brightman videos that were uploaded to YouTube in violation of German copyright law, and enjoined YouTube from further distributing the copyrighted content

The "general public license" does not grant use of third party trademarks for advertising modified versions of open source software

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • January 20 2011

Court of Appeal of Düsseldorf, Decision of 28 September 2010, I-20 U 4109Free Software and Open Source Software programs (FOSS) allow the general public to copy, distribute and modify the copyright-protected source code within the limits of the respective public copyright license

"Game over" for used software?

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • January 20 2011

The resale of "used" software is a market with a potential value of billions of Euros worldwide

Searching for photos? Go ahead, Google those thumbnails

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • June 30 2010

The German Federal Supreme Court has decided that Google is not liable for unlawful copyright infringement for displaying thumbnail preview images of the artist's photographs in its search engine

German Federal Court of Justice decides on ‘perlentaucher ’-cases

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • February 28 2011

The use of fragments of texts will only be legitimate if the new text it is used for is considered as an independent work protected by copyright law

Thumbnails legally permissible in Germany: German Federal Court, I ZR 6908, 29 April 2010

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • February 28 2011

At the end of April 2010, the German Federal Court of Justice rendered a landmark judgment regarding the use of so-called "thumbnails" in internet search engines

Copyright protection for everyday household object designed by bauhaus artist wilhelm wagenfeld

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • April 14 2011

The Court of Appeal of Munich decided that an egg-boiler, designed by the Bauhaus artist Wilhelm Wagenfeld, was a work of applied art and enjoyed copyright protection against infringing copies

To use or not to use? Federal Court of Justice asks CJEU to evaluate the compatibility of a re-sale of used software licenses with copyright law

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • April 14 2011

The question of whether or not the trade in used software licenses which are passed on to the buyer by way of online download is compatible with copyright law has long been controversially discussed by German courts and legal commentators

Claims for damages for violations of open source licenses

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • May 25 2011

Whoever commercially uses licensed open source software must specify the developer and source code or risk claims for damages, according to a recent decision of the District Court of Bochum, Germany

Illegal streaming of pirate copies - what will come after kino.to?

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • November 28 2011

The German Federal Minister of Justice, Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, quotes Prof

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