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We are proud to announce that the lawyer Jörg Khöber has been awarded with the academic degree of a Master of Laws (LL.M.) after successfully completing the intellectual property master program of the Centre for Intellectual Property (CIP) at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf.

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We are proud to announce that the lawyer Kilian Besler has been awarded with the academic degrees of “IT-Law and Intellectual Property” Master of Laws (LL.M.) as well as “Information and Communication Technology” Master of Laws (LL.M.) after successfully participation in the European Legal Informatics Study Programme (EULISP) at the Lebniz University in Hannover.

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Certified lawyer Julian Modi, LL.M. has reached the decision in the Local Court Dachau on August 16, 2011, ref.: 2 C 1423/11, which has been published as the decision of the week in the legal magazine NJW – issue 42/2011.

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.

PayPal blocks against the sales within Kuba, Zalando obliges frequently returning buyers to pay in advance. Chip interviews lawyer Hagen Hild, certified lawyer in IT Law and in Protection of Industrial Property about that topic.

Elvis Presley has been supposedly exploited by his record company during his lifetime. At least this is what his descendants maintain suiting Sony Music Entertainment as Presley’s former record company. Antenne Bayern interviews Julian N. Modi, LL.M., certified lawyer in IT-Law about the rights of the heirs. They base their claim on § 32a Copyright Act (UrhG) that states that the artist is also later entitled to compensation in case that the new owner of the right of use has unexpected success with the work of art.

Whispering in the stock market can bring the stock quotes to collapse in short time. News spread non-braked around the globe through Facebook, Twitter & Co. Is the person who started the rumour liable for the damages? Financial Times Deutschland interviews lawyer Alexander Wagner about the legal situation and liability of the ones who manifest an opinion and of the ones who repeat it.

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.

We welcome lawyer Arthur Kempter in the lawfirm.biz team.

During his degree in Law and clerkship at the Universität Tübingen, Freiburg and Leeds (U.K.) he focused on “intellectual property”. He has gained important practical experience working for several law firms based on commercial law, particularly in the area of copyright, intellectual property and IT law. Currently he is in the theoretical training for a certification in industrial property protection at the Hagen Law School.

The Member States hat time until January 20, 2011 to implement the new directive 2009/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the safety of toys – these implementing regulations should be applied from July 20, 2011. We have compiled for you the important innovations mentioned in the toys directive and also in the second regulation of the equipment and product security law and which should be followed by manufactures and online sellers.

The Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg decided that in case of a marriage-like partnership, the TV licensing fee should only paid once (Sentence dated August 21, 2008, file number: 2 S 1519/08).

Malfunction or failure of the cable connection is for the costumer usually an annoying issue. Normally it may be only a missed movie or the favourite series, though this problem affects the growing number of customers who use the cable connection to phone or surf on the web. The legal options that you have as a customer in case of such malfunctions will be disclosed by certified lawyer Julian N. Modi on his interview with the magazine SAT+KABEL.

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.

In the two-day event “IT Law – organise and manage contents, communication and business legally steady on the Internet” within the lecture series “JuraBasics – Law for non-lawyers” of the University of Augsburg, certified lawyer Hagen Hild will impart practise-oriented knowledge. Lawyer Hild is a certified lawyer in IT-Law and in Protection of Industrial Property and daily advises clients in this area for almost 10 years. The event will take place on Friday 16/07 and Saturday 17/07 from 9 am to 5:30 pm.

Interview with certified lawyer Hagen Hild about the topic: “Surrounded by Facebook”, published in CHIP 02/2011 edition.

The German Ordinance on the duty to inform of the service companies (DL-InfoV) came into force on May 17, 2010. DL-InfoV applies for all service companies and IT-freelancers and involves numerous new duties to inform. You may read the article written by certified lawyer Hagen Hild about this topic for the “IT Freelancer Magazin” on the February / March 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...

We are pleased to inform that Lawyer Monika Bandouch is entitled with immediate effect to bear the title acredited certified lawyer in Protection of Industrial Property.

The lawfirm.biz-Team congratulate sincerely!

Comment of the lawyers Hagen Hild and Jörg Khöber

Comment of the lawyers Hagen Hild and Jörg Khöber for the June-edition of the legally specialized magazine Kommunikation & Recht, about the judgement of the OLG Düsseldorf (Higher Regional Court Düsseldorf) of March 8, 2010, file number about the topic: Admissibility of audio-visual recordings in medical practices and the right to forbearance of future clandestine recordings.