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13th Feb 2023
Purpose of IT security

Purpose of IT security

The purpose is to protect basic information such as company assets, company know-how, all personal data and sales. Without an appropriate solution for IT security, Does your company have inadequate risk management?. You, the management, are also legally obliged to do so, to take appropriate safety precautions. IT security means the protection of information and, above all, the processing of it. horak. LAWYERS/ LAWYERS / PATENT ATTORNEYS Just give us a call. We are happy to help. Information security should prevent the manipulation of data and systems by unauthorized persons. IT security measures Access controls, Cryptography, rights management, Firewalls, Proxies, virus scanner, Vulnerability management – ​​these are the measures, to ensure IT security. IT security includes all technical and organizational....

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01st Mar 2021
The use of the image of a prominent person on the Internet as a “Clickbait” violates the right to one's own image

The use of the image of a prominent person on the Internet as a “Clickbait” violates the right to one's own image

b) The use of the image of a prominent person on the Internet as a “Clickbait” (“Click queues”) without editorial reference to this intervenes in the property-law allocation content of your right to your own image. c) A celebrity doesn't have to accept, that your portrait is used by the press free of charge to advertise editorial contributions, that do not concern them. Urteil BGH I ZR 120/19 – Clickbaiting KUG § 22 Set 1, § 23 Abs. 1 No.. 1, Abs. 2; BGB § 812 Abs. 1 Set 1 Fall 2, § 818 Abs. 2; ZPO § 538 Abs. 2 Set 1 No.. 4

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20th Jan 2020
Automatic selection of reviews by an evaluation portal as yelp.de is admissible

Automatic selection of reviews by an evaluation portal as yelp.de is admissible

BGH judgment of 14. January 2020 – VI ZR 496/18 (u.a.) – yelp.de facts: The applicant takes account of their evaluation display on an Internet portal whose operators to cease and desist, Detection and damage claims. The defendant operates the Internet at www.yelp.de a Review Portal, rate in the company, registered users by awarding one stars up to five and a text. The Internet portal displays all user contributions and classifies them automatically by software and daily without manual control as either “recommended” or as “(currently) not recommended” on. When you call a company are up to five stars displayed with its name and presentation, the average of the award in the “recommended”...

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12th Feb 2018
The buyer of a domain may rely on the legitimate use of the seller,,de,The offered by name infringement balancing of interests leads,,de,that the defendant can point to their own interests worthy of protection,,de,exclude the applicant's name, a legal claim,,de,LG Cologne,,de,Domain purchase and priority,,de,The charges get dismissed,,de,The costs of litigation are imposed on the applicant,,de,The judgment is provisionally enforceable against collateral in the amount of,,de,of each amount to be enforced,,de,The parties disagree about the mutual authorization at the "T" and on a related thereto Internet Domain,,de,The applicant is registered in since,,de.

The buyer of a domain may rely on the legitimate use of the seller,,de,The offered by name infringement balancing of interests leads,,de,that the defendant can point to their own interests worthy of protection,,de,exclude the applicant's name, a legal claim,,de,LG Cologne,,de,Domain purchase and priority,,de,The charges get dismissed,,de,The costs of litigation are imposed on the applicant,,de,The judgment is provisionally enforceable against collateral in the amount of,,de,of each amount to be enforced,,de,The parties disagree about the mutual authorization at the "T" and on a related thereto Internet Domain,,de,The applicant is registered in since,,de.

The buyer of a domain may rely on the legitimate use of the seller,,de,The offered by name infringement balancing of interests leads,,de,that the defendant can point to their own interests worthy of protection,,de,exclude the applicant's name, a legal claim,,de,LG Cologne,,de,Domain purchase and priority,,de,The charges get dismissed,,de,The costs of litigation are imposed on the applicant,,de,The judgment is provisionally enforceable against collateral in the amount of,,de,of each amount to be enforced,,de,The parties disagree about the mutual authorization at the "T" and on a related thereto Internet Domain,,de,The applicant is registered in since,,de. Die bei Namensrechtsverletzungen gebotene Interessenabwägung führt dazu, daß der Beklagte auf eigene schützenswerte Belange verweisen kann, die einen namensrechtlichen Anspruch der Klägerin ausschließen. LG Köln zu 33 The 39/17 from 19.12.2017 – Domainkauf und Priorität … Die Klage wird abgewiesen. Die Kosten des Rechtsstreits werden der Klägerin auferlegt. Das Urteil ist vorläufig vollstreckbar gegen Sicherheitsleistung in Höhe von 110 % des jeweils zu vollstreckenden Betrages. 1 Facts: 2 Die Parteien streiten um die wechselseitige Berechtigung an der Bezeichnung „T“ sowie an einer damit in Zusammenhang stehenden Internetdomain. 3 Die Klägerin ist im Handelsregister seit 2004 unter der...

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01st Nov 2017
Instagram advertising links images without identification,,de,that it so far is advertising,,de,are anticompetitive and violate § 5a Abs,,de,The defendant violates the put online images,,de,in which products of industrial enterprises are provided with a link to their home page and the adjacent text without identification,,de,of § 5a Abs,,de,Afterwards acting unfairly,,de,who makes the commercial purpose of any business activity not identified,,de,provided that it does not result from the context,,de,and the non-marked making is suitable,,de,Such a concealment of advertising is at the Instagram blog,,de,to lead the Defendant,,de,to accept,,de,A non TextMaker aware of the commercial purpose exists,,de, dass es sich insoweit um Werbung handelt, sind wettbewerbswidrig und verstossen gegen § 5a Abs. 6 UWG

Instagram advertising links images without identification,,de,that it so far is advertising,,de,are anticompetitive and violate § 5a Abs,,de,The defendant violates the put online images,,de,in which products of industrial enterprises are provided with a link to their home page and the adjacent text without identification,,de,of § 5a Abs,,de,Afterwards acting unfairly,,de,who makes the commercial purpose of any business activity not identified,,de,provided that it does not result from the context,,de,and the non-marked making is suitable,,de,Such a concealment of advertising is at the Instagram blog,,de,to lead the Defendant,,de,to accept,,de,A non TextMaker aware of the commercial purpose exists,,de, dass es sich insoweit um Werbung handelt, sind wettbewerbswidrig und verstossen gegen § 5a Abs. 6 UWG

Die Verfügungsbeklagte verstößt mit den ins Netz gestellten Bildern, bei denen Produkte gewerblicher Unternehmen mit einem Link zu deren Homepage versehen sind und dem danebenstehenden Text ohne Kenntlichmachung, dass es sich insoweit um Werbung handelt, gegen § 5a Abs. 6 UWG. Danach handelt unlauter, wer den kommerziellen Zweck einer geschäftlichen Handlung nicht kenntlich macht, sofern sich dieser nicht unmittelbar aus den Umständen ergibt, und das Nichtkenntlichmachen geeignet ist, to cause the consumer to take a transactional decision, he would not have taken otherwise. Eine derartige Verschleierung der Werbung ist bei dem Instagram-blog, den die Verfügungsbeklagte führt, anzunehmen. Ein Nichtkenntlichmachen des kommerziellen Zwecks liegt vor, wenn das äußere Erscheinungsbild der geschäftlichen Handlung...

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10th Feb 2017
Die Umgehung einer Schutzvorkehrung (WoW) kann wettbewerbswidrig sein

Die Umgehung einer Schutzvorkehrung (WoW) kann wettbewerbswidrig sein

a) Der lauterkeitsrechtliche Schutz eines durch Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen ausgestalteten Ge-chäftsmodells vor gezielter Behinderung im Sinne von § 4 No.. 4 UWG durch Missachtung der Geschäfts-bedingungen setzt grundsätzlich voraus, dass die missachteten Geschäftsbedingungen in die Verträge des Verwenders einbezogen werden und der Inhaltskontrolle standhalten. This also applies, wenn der Hersteller, Vertreiber oder Veranstalter eines Spiels in seinen Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen die Spielregeln niedergelegt hat. Er verdient den lauterkeitsrechtlichen Schutz vor einer gezielten Behinderung durch einen Verstoß gegen die Spielregeln nur, wenn diese Spielregeln rechtlich verbindlich sind (Fortfüh-rung von BGH, Judgment of 30. April 2014 – I ZR 224/12, Wheat 2014, 785 Rn. 32 = WRP 2014, 839 – Flugvermittlung im Internet)....

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12th Jul 2016
Chargeable value added services number in Contacts infringes TMG and is therefore anti-competitive.

Chargeable value added services number in Contacts infringes TMG and is therefore anti-competitive.

The providers of telemedia services, indicating a chargeable value-added service number on its website as a possibility for a contact in addition to his e-mail address, thus providing no further communication available, of the requirements of § 5 Abs. 1 No.. 2 TMG corresponds to effective communication: For a reconciliation of the establishment of a value-added service number with § 5 Abs. 1 No.. 2 TMG and Art. 5 Abs. 1 BUCHST. c of Directive 2000/31 / EC initially speaks the text of those provisions, with indication of contact information quick, to enable direct and effective communication. As the Court of Appeal rightly pointed out, können über den üblichen Verbindungsentgelten liegende und von der vom Anrufer einer Mehrwertdienstenummer nicht immer beeinflussbaren...

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17th May 2016
Ein Wettbewerbsverband kann auch die Anwaltskosten einer anwaltlichen Abmahnung beanspruchen und nicht nur die Verwaltungspauschale

Ein Wettbewerbsverband kann auch die Anwaltskosten einer anwaltlichen Abmahnung beanspruchen und nicht nur die Verwaltungspauschale

1. The delegation authorized to prosecute breaches of competition law professional association a lawyer with a – objectively justified – Warning, are characterized legal costs only non-refundable, when the Association of the pursuit of competition breaches “the task” has. The latter does not depend solely on, whether the fight against unfair competition is mentioned in the statute as a task of the Association. It is more important, whether the Abmahntätigkeit the Association adopted a scope for a certain duration, in which an economically rational acting federation would hire for reasons of cost to accomplish this task legally trained staff; this is the association, a certain margin of discretion zuzubilligen. 2. When applying under Paragraph 1. dargestellten Grundsätze...

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28th Jul 2015
(Unterlassungs-)Haftung von YouTube bzw. Google aus dem Gesichtspunkt der sogenannten Störerhaftung bejaht.

(Unterlassungs-)Haftung von YouTube bzw. Google aus dem Gesichtspunkt der sogenannten Störerhaftung bejaht.

Haftung von YouTube bzw. Google aus dem Gesichtspunkt der sogenannten Störerhaftung bejaht. Danach sind die Betreiber von Internetangeboten wie YouTube im Ausgangspunkt zwar nicht verpflichtet, die von ihnen übermittelten und gespeicherten Informationen zu überwachen oder nach Umständen zu forschen, die auf eine rechtswidrige Nutzertätigkeit hindeuten. Wird allerdings ein solcher Dienstanbieter auf eine klare Rechtsverletzung hingewiesen, muss er nicht nur das konkrete Angebot unverzüglich sperren, sondern auch Vorsorge treffen, dass es möglichst nicht zu weiteren derartigen Schutzrechtsverletzungen kommt. Welche Pflichten den Dienstanbieter dabei treffen, insbesondere ob und wieweit er zur Sperrung und dann zur Prüfung und Überwachung der bei ihm hochgeladenen Inhalte verpflichtet ist, bestimmt sich danach, was dem Betreiber nach...

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17th Sep 2014
Libraries must digitize works contained in their collections and provide users at terminals available

Libraries must digitize works contained in their collections and provide users at terminals available

1. The term "regulations on the sale and Licenses" in Art. 5 Abs. 3 BUCHST. n of Directive 2001/29 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22. More 2001 the harmonization of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society is to be understood in the sense, that the right holder and referred to in this provision means, such as a public library, for the covered work a license- must have or use contract closed, in which the conditions for the use of the work are determined by the device. 2. Art. 5 Abs. 3 BUCHST. n in conjunction with Article. 5 Abs. 2 BUCHST. c of the Directive 2001/29 must be interpreted, that ...

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20th Jan 2014
The concept of "transactional decision" covers all decisions, directly associated with the decision to purchase or not purchase a product.

The concept of "transactional decision" covers all decisions, directly associated with the decision to purchase or not purchase a product.

A commercial practice is known as "misleading" within the meaning of Art. 6 Abs. 1 Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11. More 2005 Unfair business practices by companies to consumers in the internal market and amending Council Directive 84/450/EEC, Directives 97/7/EC, 98/27/EC and 2002/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EG) No.. 2006/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Directive on unfair commercial practices) classified, if this practice to a misrepresentation or contains the average consumer is likely to deceive and are apt to, to cause the consumer to take a transactional decision, he would not have taken otherwise. Art. 2 BUCHST. k this ...

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04th Dec 2013
IT Law Practice: Internet Law, Online Legal, IT Contract Law, Copyright, Media Law, Trademark, Title protection law, Competition Law, International IT Law, IT tendering law, Press Law, IT-specific criminal law

IT Law Practice: Internet Law, Online Legal, IT Contract Law, Copyright, Media Law, Trademark, Title protection law, Competition Law, International IT Law, IT tendering law, Press Law, IT-specific criminal law

Internet Law, Online Legal: Liability for content on the Internet Online Copyright Specific expressions of opinion on the net, Protection of the privacy, Protection of honor provider contracts, Provider liability warnings and their defense preparation of Terms of Use for Websites liability of forums- and platform operators sharing, illegal downloading of music and movies liability for hyperlinks, Search engines Privacy policy, Creation of data protection declarations domain disputes, Recht der Domains Online-Marketing (Advertising- and marketing contracts) Legal support of internet service providers, Web designers, Media agencies, Operators of online shops websites and eBay stores youth protection on the net e-commerce, E-business IT contract law drafting and negotiating IT contracts (Software development , -surrender, -adaptation, Hardware procurement, Support contracts, System contracts, License agreements, alternatives Lizenzmodelle, Project contracts, Distribution agreements, Employee- and Beraterverterträge) Licensing of software over the Internet APP-related treaties Privacy treaties creating Conditions (also EVB-IT) Providerverträge (Access, Hosting, Housing, ASP)...

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01st Nov 2013
Scope of an anthology, is the intrinsically creative selection or arrangement of the elements

Scope of an anthology, is the intrinsically creative selection or arrangement of the elements

a) In determining the scope of a collecting station is to be noted, that the protection under § 4 Abs. 1 In the Copyright Act is intrinsically creative selection or arrangement of the elements. b) An infringement of copyright in a collective work can therefore only be accepted, if the damaged work contains those structures in terms of selection and arrangement of the substance, which the collective work as a personal intellectual creation within the meaning of § 4 Identify Copyright Act. The part taken over must therefore be largely as an expression of individual choice Conception of the author of the anthology, that he is still under a § 4 Copyright Act is independently protectable part of his anthology (Confirmation of references omitted 172, 268 Rn. 25 f. Poem title list ...

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10th Jul 2013
The provision of § 5 Abs. 1 No.. 2 TMG commands – in Wortlautkongruenz implemented by the type. 5 Abs. 1 Abs c Directive 2000/31/EC – specifying the address of electronic mail. This is the e-mail address. A fax number or a contact form does not satisfy.

The provision of § 5 Abs. 1 No.. 2 TMG commands – in Wortlautkongruenz implemented by the type. 5 Abs. 1 lit c Directive 2000/31/EC – specifying the address of electronic mail. This is the e-mail address. A fax number or a contact form does not satisfy.

The provision of § 5 Abs. 1 No.. 2 TMG commands – in Wortlautkongruenz implemented by the type. 5 Abs. 1 lit c Directive 2000/31/EC – specifying the address of electronic mail. This is the e-mail address. A fax number or a contact form does not satisfy.

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05th Jun 2013
Shall submit to the Federal Court of Justice of the European Union prior to the rights issue of admissibility framing – Youtube promotional film about water filtration systems “The reality”

Shall submit to the Federal Court of Justice of the European Union prior to the rights issue of admissibility framing – Youtube promotional film about water filtration systems “The reality”

Press release of the Federal Court No.. 090/2013 from 16.05.2013 Shall submit to the Federal Court of Justice of the European Union to the question of the admissibility of copyright “Framing” our There u.a. I responsible for copyright. Civil Senate of the Bundesgerichtshof has referred the matter to the Court of Justice of the European Union, whether the operator of a website penalized for an infringement of copyright, if he copyrighted content, which are publicly available on other websites, by means of “Framing” integrates into its own website. The applicant, manufactures and sells water filtration systems, made for advertising purposes a about two minutes long film entitled “The reality” manufacture, which deals with water pollution. It is the proprietor of the exclusive utilization rights to this film. The film was –...

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04th Jun 2013
Nach § 5a Abs. 3 No.. 2 UWG must be given "the identity and address of the business" – a branch is not enough

Nach § 5a Abs. 3 No.. 2 UWG must be given "the identity and address of the business" – a branch is not enough

The requirement of § 5a Abs. 3 No.. 2 UWG, specify the identity and address of operator, In the entry, the business operated by the branch addresses is not enough. Nach § 5a Abs. 3 No.. 2 UWG must be given "the identity and address of the business". Art. 7 IV lit. b UCP Directive speaks of the "address and the identity of the trader". These rules are intended to ensure, that the consumer is clear and unambiguous information about the underlying, with whom he comes into contact business, so that he can take contact without difficulty and without further investigation effort by providing companies (vgl. OLG, WRP 2011, 1213, 1214, OLG Dusseldorf, Urt. in. 02.10.2012 – I-20 U...

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09th May 2013
“Internet radio” anticompetitive, is payable because of the Lifestream GVL tariff

“Internet radio” anticompetitive, is payable because of the Lifestream GVL tariff

The statement brings in the relevant public the impression, that Internet radio operators by virtue of a license from the S… ability to emit and the technical infrastructure of the defendant Internet Radio in Germany, arise without the payment obligations inter alia to the applicant and the position taken by their performers and phonogram producers. In fact, however, leads to internet radio operator in Germany, such a payment obligation under § § 78 Abs. 2 No.. 1, 86 Copyright Act. The question, whether in cross-border issues arising from performance rights are, directed according. Art. 8 VO 864/07 under the law of the country, is sought for the legal (Land protection). The legal protection of the country also determined, welche Handlungen als Verwertungshandlungen unter ein von ihm anerkanntes Schutzrecht fallen...

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15th Apr 2013
Press Law

Press Law

Medienberichtertstattungsrecht, Persöhnlichkeitsrecht, Freedom of expression and press freedom are important foundations of democracy and fundamental rights in terms of 3 in the latter type. 1, 2 and 5 Anchored GG. Communication media has different sides. You can destroy the honor and reputation of a person unlawfully in a day. As an untrue statement of fact, illegal or manipulated photo shoot or coverage of particular private spheres fundamental rights are violated. The same applies to a reporting Movie. In contrast, failure to, Reply, Pain and suffering, Indemnification, or – exceptionally – the revocation to be an effective means. However, negative reporting has not always legally geandet. Even successful processes can have negative consequences in light of their new visibility. We check the property- and legal ...

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15th Apr 2013
Privacy law

Privacy law

Due to the high, easy availability of data, their predictability and processing in databases or other computerized systems is a policy of the central facets of current and future legal realities represent. The protection of data is not solely in orginären Privacy Legal, but also in many other areas of law, such as intellectual property law and copyright (unauthorized Down-/Uploads protected works, Database right), Application. In addition to its general data protection law many domain-specific data protection provisions in other laws. These are the general rules of the respective national data protection laws and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) ago ( § 1 Abs. 3 and 4 BDSG). The state data protection laws apply to the processing of personal data by public authorities and other public bodies of the state and municipalities ...

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09th Apr 2013
Why are we involved in IT-/TK-Recht?

Why are we involved in IT-/TK-Recht?

We know the IT-/TK-Branche of our clients as well as by the special off- and training of our Lawyers. Thus, since we now have 16 Years active in the field of IT-/TK-Rechts Attorney Dipl.-Ing. Michael Horak graduated alongside his jurisprudential studies such electrical engineering with appropriate emphasis in the areas of information technology / telecommunications. Of course we know the terminology and industry relationships. In addition, we are able in particular complicated technical issues as the other institutions of the justice prepare, that the actual technical problems can be recognized and honored accordingly. Accurate and fast we can tap into, what matters. What services we offer? The entire right of information technologies and telecommunications, including the ...