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.

Am 7. März, im Royal Lancaster London, hat Managing IP die besten Kanzleien aus der EMEA Region für ihre erfolgreiche Arbeit im Bereich geistiges Eigentum ausgezeichnet.

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

„Pastiche – »Sleeping Beauty« oder zukunftstauglicher Safe Harbor für künstlerische Werkübernahmen?" – mit dieser Frage und der neu in § 51a UrhG umgesetzten...

On March 7, at the Royal Lancaster in London, Managing IP recognised the best intellectual property firms in the EMEA area.

The IP sector is as varied as the experts who work in it. But how do the field's requirements and challenges shape these professionals? Join us for a fascinating discussion on career journeys...

The BVerfG annulled an earlier decision of the Federal Supreme Court ("FSC"; Bundesgerichtshof – BGH).

The German Federal Supreme Court has ruled that Google could use and display a thumbnail preview of a picture taken from an artist’s web site, because she had not sent a signal to say that she objected to this.

Christiane Stuetzle spoke to Artnet about the Berlin Regional Court's decision in favor of client Martin Eder

"Pastiche – 'Sleeping Beauty' or Future-Proof Safe Harbor for Artistic Takeovers of Works?" is the subject of an article written by Christiane Stuetzle and Susan Bischoff...

In a ruling by the First Criminal Court, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) put a definite end to what is known as the "self-importation model" in the import of pirate material.

The development of a company logo by a graphic designer took over a year.

In this episode, our attorney-at-law and partner Dr. Philipe Kutschke tells you how to identify - and avoid - typical errors in the application of EU designs.

Christiane Stuetzle spoke to Managing Intellectual Property about a Berlin Regional Court decision in favor of client Martin Eder

A German publisher has failed in its first attempt to stop Google scanning its books and publishing excerpts from them on the internet.

By a judgement of 11 August 2011, which has now been published, the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe has clarified that news texts are, in principle, also protected by copyright.

In a landmark decision, a German district court recently decided that copying images to create a data set that can potentially be used for training generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems...

Christiane Stuetzle authored an article for World Intellectual Property Review discussing the significance of the Berlin Regional Court's ruling that the reference to a pre-existing digital work...

Es begann mit einem Paukenschlag, dann wurde es über Monate sehr still. Nun steht fest, dass die Games-Förderung auf ...