Urim Bajrami and Lukas Pachschwöll describe in their article "Lootboxen: Werden Videospiele Glücksspielen gefährlich ähnlich?" (Lootboxes: Are video games becoming dangerously similar to games of chance?) in the legal magazine "Zeitschrift für Energie- und Technologierecht (ZTR)" the legal issue [...]
Update: There is now marriage for everyone. Even though since 1 January 2019 same-sex couples have been able to marry and opposite-sex couples have been able to enter into a registered partnership, some questions remained unanswered until recently. Since [...]
New BGH decision regarding #Keyword-Advertising: In its second attempt, the German bicycle bag manufacturer Ortlieb was successful before the BGH vs. the trade giant Amazon. When googling #Keywords like "Ortlieb bicycle bag", the ads booked by Amazon also featured [...]
Well meant, badly timed! How the Dash Button became the Trash Button: The SVLAW E-Commerce Team followed the path of the Amazon Dash Button from the very beginning. What was meant to be a well-intentioned help in everyday life [...]
On social media about social media. The new JUVE magazine from 5.8.2019 has been published! The article "Unerfotschtes Terrain" is about the fact that more and more law are going to discover social media. See also Arthur Stadler's interview [...]
The Crypto Research Report for July 2019 has been published and Oliver Völkel, Partner at Stadler Völkel Attorneys at Law, is again on the Advisory Board (see page 75)! The report, which is supported by Bitpanda, GenTwo Digital, Coinfinity, [...]
New legal definition for virtual currencies! In the July issue of the Austrian Journal for Financial Markets Law, Oliver Völkel deals with the new legal definition of the term "virtual currency", addressing the fundamental question of what constitutes a [...]
Are you influencing or just pretending? As you may know, the hashtag #advertisement isn't always sufficient to comply with your obligations. To make sure you do everything right in the future, the SVLAW Influencer Team has created these [...]
In Germany, competition and consumer protection associations are actively searching for infringements of the transparency duties in #influencer-marketing. After often focusing on "social media celebrities", this time a temporary injunction was enforced against an "aquascaper" with only 5,000 followers. Read [...]
On 3 July 2019, the National Council passed an amendment to the Financial Markets Anti-Money Laundering Act (FM-GwG). The aim of the amendment is to implement Directive (EU) 2018/843 (5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive) on the prevention of money [...]
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