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”...