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The EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (EU) 2023/1114, commonly known as MiCAR, introduced a comprehensive framework for the regulation of crypto-assets across the EU, including detailed requirements...

The Hamburg Regional Court has ruled in favor of LAION in the case of Robert Kneschke v LAION e.V., finding that the use by LAION – a non-profit organisation...

Cooperation between the U.S. and Germany on cybersecurity cannot be taken for granted since information sharing remained a delicate issue between the two countries following concerns raised...

Unternehmen sind einer Vielzahl von Cyber-Risiken ausgesetzt, z.B. Phishing-E-Mails, Ransomware, DDoS-Attacken, Fake Presidentund Man-in-the Middle-Angiffen, etc.

Das Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz und das Bundesministerium der Finanzen haben am...

Das Gesetz zur Einführung von elektronischen Wertpapieren, über dessen verschiedene Entwurfsstadien (Referentenentwurf vom 11. August 2020 und Regierungsentwurf vom 14. Dezember 2020)...

On 18 December 2024, the German Parliament (Bundestag) passed the Act on the Digitalization of Financial Markets (Finanzmarktdigitalisierungsgesetz, the "Act").

As I prepare to attend this year's Legal Geek conference, I find myself eagerly anticipating the discussions surrounding GenAI, a topic that has significantly evolved since last year's event.

After a delay of more than a year, the German implementation law for the NIS2 Directive (Directive (EU) 2022/2555) came into force in December 2025 (Law on the Implementation of the NIS 2 Directive and on the Regulation of Essential Features of Information Security Management in the Federal Administration).

When terminating a contract using the new termination button in online commerce pursuant to Sec. 312k of the German Civil Code [Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, BGB], the customer may not be required...

Industries across the board are using AI-powered chatbots in a variety of ways to change the way they work, and the legal sector is no exception.

Tokenization is the process of taking real-world assets and having them represented by digital tokens that can be traded on a blockchain.

On 14 February 2017, the organization Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) issued a press release that a number of leading cloud computing vendors operating in Europe have declared compliance with the CISPE Data Protection Code of Conduct (the "Code") for some or all their services.

Das Mitbestimmungsrecht des § 87 Abs. 1 Nr. 6 BetrVG ist darauf gerichtet, Arbeitnehmer vor Beeinträchtigungen ihres Persönlichkeitsrechts durch den ...

Die Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt schreitet unaufhaltsam voran. Beinahe täglich wird man mit neuen Arbeitsformen oder neuen Begrifflichkeiten konfrontiert.

The placement of a second borrower's note by LBBW with the help of blockchain was met with great response in public reporting at the end of 2017.

The following provides a summary of issues that have attracted attention in the German M&A practice recently.

The national law implementing the NIS2 Directive ("NIS2") in Germany entered into force on 6 December 2025. We discussed the key provisions of the NIS2 Directive in our previous Legal Update.