Jermaine Taylor

In the election year 2026 of all years, numerous cultural organisations in Berlin are currently receiving mail from Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB). Five years after the coronavirus lockdown, IBB is demanding the money back that Senator for Culture Klaus Lederer used to ensure the survival of many of Berlin's cultural venues in 2020/21. The IBB's tone is gruff and the deadlines set are short. Many of the reclaims are unlawful and the Senate has so far remained silent on IBB's shirt-sleeved practices.

Open source software has become an integral part of software development. From a legal perspective, the extent to which rights to the end product can be acquired is relevant. In this article, we show what risks exist in the development and acquisition of software and how these can be overcome.

In our many years of consulting experience in the purchase and sale of online shops, we havesome recurring issues that we would like to explain in this article.

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.

Germany. On 5 April 2022, the Federal Ministry of Justice forwarded a draft for a Whistleblower Protection Act to the other ministries for voting. This marks the beginning of the implementation procedure of the so-called EU Whistleblower Directive, which has been overdue since 17 December 2021.

Since 1.7.2021, new regulations on VAT apply in EU-wide mail order business. In the following, we would like to provide an overview of the effects this has on your tax liability and, furthermore, what this means for the indication of prices.