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Is the discounter damaging the brand's reputation? Aldi Süd was successfully ordered by the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court to cease selling perfume products of the JOOP! and Calvin Klein brands.

In the second instance, the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg has confirmed that the offer of an ad blocker does not infringe the copyrights of website operators. The subject of the lawsuit was the "AdBlock Plus" offer by the manufacturer Eyeo, in which Axel Springer SE saw an infringement of its copyrights on several websites.

The new Swiss Data Protection Act has been in force since 1 September 2023, without a transition period. We will show you the most important takeaways once again

The Digital Services Act passed last year is already relevant for so called "very large online platforms and search engines" since 25 August 2023. These services already need to comply with all new obligations under the act.

The world of online games holds a fascinating dynamic in which players from all over the world can explore virtual worlds and interact with each other. But behind the scenes of these digital realities, developers and publishers face a critical task: moderating player behavior and ensuring fairness in competition. Online games that rely on cooperation and competition face the challenge of maintaining a positive gaming environment and guarding against cheating and hacking. In this article we show how these problems can be addressed with the help of artificial intelligence and what needs to be considered in order to mitigate potential legal risks.

In video games, artificial intelligence (AI) has not been a foreign word for a long time. NPCs (non-player characters) and bots have always been described as AI. But the advances in the sphere of actually capable, generative AI, such as the proprietary tools for AI game development called NVIDIA Omniverse ACE (Avatar Cloud Engine) announced by graphics card manufacturer NVIDIA the Computex 2023.

The integration of AI chats, like ChatGPT, in games will open up exciting new possibilities for the medium. Conceivable are evolutions of text-based genres, more in-depth stories and quests, and a much more immersive world for the players.

According to the parliamentary initiative of the Green Group of 15 June 2023, the nDSG should be amended in Art. 21bis nDSG.

After more than 15 years, the Canton of Zurich is undergoing a total revision of its law on information and data protection (IDG).