The European Commission is pushing for the implementation and enforcement of the Digital Service Act (DSA). It is now taking action against six Member States that failed to appropriately establish their national authorities,...more
“My lord, my need is sore! Spirits that I've cited my commands ignore.” Are today’s AI solutions like Goethe’s bewitched broomsticks – which the sorcerer’s apprentice has called to life and then desperately tries, in vain, to...more
On 9 November 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union has rendered a landmark decision which reiterates the ‘country-of-origin principle’ and paves the way for more legal certainty for providers of information...more
The EU Digital Services Act with its wide-sweeping regulatory regime for all types of online intermediaries active in the EU was published on 27 October, resulting in its upcoming entry into force on 16 November 2022. What...more
The German Act to adapt copyright law to the requirements of the Digital Single Market will enter into force on 7 June 2021 – as the first national transposition of the Digital Single Market Directive ...more
6/1/2021
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While further clarity on the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (“DSM Directive”) can be expected at the European level in the next two weeks with the guidelines of the EU Commission on Art. 17 of the DSM...more
4/16/2021
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Intellectual Property Protection ,
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Court of Justice of the European Union, 6 September 2018, Case C-488/16 P BSGE v EUIPO/Freistaat Bayern -
King Ludwig II. of Bavaria was without a doubt an architectural visionary. During his reign in the second half of...more
9/13/2018
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Court of Justice of the European Union, judgment of 7 June 2018, C-44/17 -
Glen is a Gaelic word with a wonderful lyrical sound to it and reminiscent of idyllic remote Scottish valleys with the mists from the last rain...more