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Decorating the own profile with photos, text and YouTube videos is something that happens every day on Favebook. The problem appears when the copyrights are not own by the facebook user who has just copied the internet contents. Even when a user is in principle owner of the rights and according to the terms of use, facebook is allowed to use the contents to a large extend. Lawyer Hagen Hild, certified lawyer in IT Law and in Protection of Industrial Property has been interviewed by FOCUS Online about that topic.
In case that a WLAN is unencrypted, uninvited surfing the web cannot be avoided. The unobstructed access invites to use the open Wi-Fi. This surfing is legal and does not constitute a criminal offence, as long as it is confined to the mere surfing the Internet. However, it should be morally denunciated since whom secretly sneak, scrounges. However, in case of scrounging there is an important risk of unwanted guest such as viruses of malicious software.
According to the recently published police criminal statistics of the year 2010, the number of the recorded crimes regarding computer and Internet criminality has continued to grow strongly. 60.000 cases have been known last year, 20 percent more than a year before. The estimated high number of unknown and not registered crimes should not be underestimated. The increasing number of criminals feel safe from the law within the supposedly anonymous “legal vacuum” Internet.
With the growing number of Smartphone users is also increasing the interest from companies to remain present in the mobile business. Applications for mobile phones - so-called apps - are already an important economic factor, which should not be underestimated. Through these apps, it is possible more than order rail tickets through mobile phones, full web pages are optimized for Smart phones including complete ordering processes. As in ecommerce, numerous statutory duties must be considered by those companies.
Interview with certified lawyer Hagen Hild about the topic: “Surrounded by Facebook”, published on FOCUS online on January 7, 2011 and in CHIP 02/2011 edition.
Interview with certified lawyer Hagen Hild about the topic: “Surrounded by Facebook”, published in CHIP 02/2011 edition.
The computer magazine CHIP recently published our large terms and conditions test, in which lawyer Hagen Hild (Terms and Conditions Law) and lawyer Martin Bachmann (Privacy Policy) examined dozens of terms of use, licence agreements and privacy policies of the major providers such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook. This study has now been mentioned in the FOCUS magazine.
Important Terms and Conditions Check and interview with lawyer Hild in the CHIP September 2010 edition
“Im AGB-Dschungel” (“In the jungle of Terms and Conditions”) is the title of the wide terms and conditions check of CHIP. The law firm Hild & Colleagues has checked, for the well-known computer magazine CHIP, hundreds of pages containing terms and conditions, terms of use, licence agreements and privacy policies in the field of Internet and IT. The law firm has also legally tested numerous clauses for CHIP. For this purpose, certified lawyer Hagen Hild (certified lawyer in IT-Law and certified lawyer in Protection of Industrial Property) has analysed...
The public prosecutor’s office Hamburg has initiated preliminary investigations against Google, since the company has possibly violated the German Penal Law. The company photographed streets across Germany for its Internet service Street View, thereby data from unsecured WLAN connections and parts of e-mails have been “mistakenly” stored. Should private data have been unauthorised intercepted, an offence could be considered, according to § 202b StGB (German Penal Code).
Interview dated February 22, 2010 with lawyer Hagen Hild about the topic: "1&1: Questionable data clause by online order".
Press release No. 227/2009 of BGH (Federal Supreme Court) about the decision of 10/11/2009, file number: VI ZR 217/08
The Federal Supreme Court allows the Europeam Court of Justice to clear the question of the international court competence about forbereance regarding naming by the suppliers who are settled in another member state.
Decision of OLG Frankfurt / Main (HRC Frankfurt / Main) of 12/05/2009, file number: 11 W 21/09
The § 101 paragraph 9 UrhG (Copyright Act) is the basis to authorise a provider not to erase the data wanted by thirds. These permission facts are valid, according to § 96 TKG (Telecommunication Act), only for stored data traffic, however, not for the stored data caused from § 113a TKG (Telecommunication Act). Information about these data to private thirds for legal pursuit should not happen.
Decision of VG Karlsruhe (Administrative Court Karlsruhe) of 19/05/2009, file number: 10 K 932/09
The publication of paid subsidies and their consignee can intervene in the data protection fundamental right. Indeed, this is justified by an entitled public interest. A clear use of public methods as well as an economic budget management is relevant. Besides, the height of the paid sum admits only one conclusion on the managed area.
