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IPR - Germany

  • CJEU to rule on enforceability of German press publishers' right May 9, 2017
  • Coalition agreement of CDU/CSU and SPD asks to consider modern ways of IPR utilization and ancillary copyright for press publishers February 9, 2018
  • German opposition calls for abolition of online hate speech law February 7, 2018
  • German ‘hate-speech’ law tries to regulate Facebook and others - will it work? January 3, 2018
  • German court asks CJEU what a 'quotation' is: only unaltered reproductions or also something else? July 27, 2017
  • German court orders Google to stop linking to Lumen Database June 14, 2017
  • Draft law for copyright regarding science published January 12, 2017
  • Liability for links: First decisions after the ECJ judgement December 8, 2016
  • GEMAs current practice to give music publishers a lump-sum share is illegal according to the Court of Appeal in Berlin November 15, 2016
  • Germany: Directive 2014/26/EU transposed into national law May 24, 2016
  • German Leistungsschutzrecht used to prohibit publication of copyright infringement evidence March 24, 2015
  • TTIP: where the Good Samaritan meets the Trojan Horse September 10, 2014
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