In Thumbnails III, the German Federal Supreme Court (‘BGH') held that the depiction of so-called thumbnails of pictures available from the internet does not constitute an act of copyright infringement, unless the search engine operator had knowledge of the fact that the copyrighted material had been illegally uploaded.

On November 11, 2015, the Administrative Court of Cologne ruled (source document in German) that an email provider was subject to notification obligations under the nation's telecommunications law.

On June 15, the Bavarian Data Protection Authority ("DPA") published a press release stating that the Administrative Court of Bayreuth ...

On September 26, the Bavarian Administrative Court decided that a social media company's custom audience feature for targeted advertising violated applicable data protection law

As of September, the Bavarian data protection authority conducted an automated online inspection (source document in German) of more than 2,000 email servers of companies located in Bavaria.

The Federation of German Consumer Organizations issued a press release regarding privacy concerns relating to 15 provisions in the terms of use and the privacy policy of the Pokémon Go app.

On March 11, the German federal government presented its plan (source document in German) to promote research and development regarding IT security.

Facebook's 2014 Government Request Report reveals that Germany has the highest number of requests for user data per million Facebook users.

Can employers prevent their employees from engaging in dangerous sports? And if they get injured are they entitled to sick pay? Are any sports completely off limits? How about skiing...

A third higher regional court has ruled on the legality of website ad blockers, a further decision in one of several proceedings initiated against the distribution of "AdBlock Plus".

NFT – Just another Buzzword oder neue Chancen für den Kunst- und Filmmarkt? So lautet der Titel des Beitrags, den Christiane Stützle gemeinsam mit Patricia...

Juve's Karrieportal Azur hat in seiner Printpublikation unter dem Titel „100% Frauen" führende Juristinnen aus unterschiedlichen Fachbereichen vorgestellt.

In October, the German Federal Supreme Court ("BGH") submitted to the ECJ a question regarding whether dynamic IP addresses constitute personal data.

In December 2015, Germany passed the Act on Safe Digital Communication and Applications in the Healthcare Sector.

According to the DPO, the search engine already announced that it will materially change its services in order to meet these data protection requirements.

Christiane Stützle ist Co-Autorin des Münchener Anwaltshandbuch für Urheber- und Medienrecht. Erschienen im C.H. Beck Verlag, 3. Edition 2023.

The judges had to deal with a case that took place before the new section 5a(4) of the German Act against Unfair Commercial Practices entered into effect on 28 May 2022.

The plaintiff considered this to be a legal violation as he had not subscribed to the newsletter.

German legal publication Juve's career portal, Azur, recently featured leading women lawyers from a variety of practice areas in a publication titled "100% Women." Among the many impressive...