The long-awaited ECJ judgement in the case of Deutsche Wohnen SE against the Berlin public prosecutor's office has just been published. (C-807/21)

From software development to e-commerce, marketing and consulting services: The use of (generative) artificial intelligence (henceforth "AI") is penetrating every conceivable industry. This raises many different questions from a legal perspective. One of the most relevant is that of data protection. The European data protection authorities impose severe fines in the millions for violations of the GDPR. The need for companies to make their offerings legally compliant is therefore just as high.

Oliver Pocher to cease and desist from publishing and distributing film sequences showing Boris Becker due to a violation of his right to his own likeness in accordance with Section 22 KUG.

Wenn die Werbung für ein Produkt lauterkeitsrechtlich verboten wurde, muss der Schuldner das Werbematerials entfernen lassen.

The emergence of the metaverse raises new questions about data protection. The GDPR is relevant if the metaverse operator is active in the EU or addresses EU citizens. The responsibility lies with the operator, but companies, agencies and hardware providers may also be responsible. Data protection agreements and transparent information for users about data collection are important, as is safeguarding the rights of data subjects.

A number of exciting questions arise in trademark law in connection with the increased use of trademarks in virtual spaces.

The geoblocking mechanisms used by Valve, the operator of the "Steam" platform, and several publishers on Steam constitute an impermissible restriction of the free internal market. At least, that is how the Court of Justice of the European Union (EuG) saw it, demonstrating that geoblocking is not completely free in the EU. In particular, the ECJ clarified that the protection of copyrights cannot per se lead to admissibility

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Contract and competition law issues are of immense importance in the metaverse. Which law governs contracts concluded in the metaverse? How do metaverse-internal and metaverse-external contracts differ? Can traders in the metaverse compete with traders of real goods? Many questions remain unanswered at present and it remains to be seen how they will be answered.

Die US-amerikanische Authors Guild hat einen class-action lawsuit gegen ChatGPT-Entwickler OpenAI eingelegt, in dem OpenAI Urheberrechtsverletzungen beim Training seiner GPT-Modelle vorgeworfen wird.

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.