[Podcast] Broadband and Beyond: A Conversation with NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson
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PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - DMCA Takedowns – Benefits to Content Owner
II-36- Holiday Party Tips, the 2018/2019 Federal Regulatory Agenda, and Noteworthy Cases On Suing and Being Sued
The Latest with the FCC's Open Internet Order
Polsinelli Podcast - Social Media at Work - What's Allowed and What Isn't?
Weekly Brief: Rakoff Orders Gupta To Pay Goldman Sachs' Legal Fees
Copyright Safe Harbors: Establishing Protection Against Infringement Claims
1. FEDERAL COURT OF JUSTICE RULES ON ASSIGNMENT CLAUSE IN T&CS FOR CAR FINANCING - In April 2023, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, “BGH”) ruled that an assignment clause used by a German captive bank...more
To help organisations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison & Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical developments in this area that...more
On March 27, 2019, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior (GMI) proposed a new bill (the "Draft Bill") for a so-called IT Security Act 2.0 (IT-SiG 2.0). In an effort to take a front-runner role in Europe, Germany has...more
Last week, German regulators decided to no longer accept the widely used “JusProg” software as a sufficient means for online service providers to comply with statutory youth protection requirements. The decision is effective...more
Only two weeks ago, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) referred various questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) concerning the liability of the video platform YouTube....more
The phenomenon of so-called “Hate Speech” has been in the public eye for a while now, but particularly in German news. Hate speech denotes verbal attacks and accusations based on personal attributes such as race, religion,...more
In a decision that could have significant impact for online companies that have European operations, the European Union’s (EU) top court ruled that Internet Protocol addresses (IP addresses) could, under certain...more
Today, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued its long-awaited decision in Breyer v. Germany. Breyer addresses the question of whether IP addresses are “personal data” for purposes of EU data protection law. As is...more
Last month, one of the Advocate Generals (“AG”) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”), Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona, issued an opinion suggesting that dynamic IP addresses should be recognized as “personal...more
On 26 November 2015, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled that Internet access providers (IAP) can be liable for copyright infringements on third parties’ websites and can thus be ordered to block access to such...more