Webmasters will need to be much more careful about quoting content from online German publications after a new online copyright law comes into effect in Germany on August 1. If the CJEU decides that German law is not compatible with E.U.law, the...
The website is called "Verteidige dein netz" or Defend your network, and Google has launched it to warn people in Germany about proposed changes to German law, specifically the Copyright Act of the Federal Republic of Germany
German publishers have been lobbying government for at least a few years to bring into law a licensing system for search engines that link to news content. No, this is what German publishers want and the proposed law is now in its second draft.
Google received a request to remove 70 YouTube videos for violating the German Children and Young Person’s Act. Even when content doesn’t violate their own guidelines, Google may bend to the law of any given country.
German chemist Robert Bunsen, inventor of the Bunsen burner His theory became known as Steno’s law of superposition. A new Google Doodle today honors the 374th birthday of the Danish anatomist Nicolas Steno, the man widely regarded as the father of...
Mosley testified at the Leveson inquiry last week that he has pursued legal action in 22 countries and ordered the removal of material from 193 German websites. Now, I’ve heard the audio and though it’s actually painful to recall it in my head, he...
We are pleased that the Hamburg Data Protection Officer and Freedom of Information Today has released a clear statement regarding compliance with the German data protection law by Google Analytics,” said Google in a statement.
The Independent Center for Privacy Protection (ULD) in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein has demanded local websites to remove their Facebook Pages and remove any Like buttons on their websites, ZDNet reported.
Unless you're willing to budget some money to PayPal off to a German webmaster, your best opportunities for linking may be missed. This is a biggie and I only reluctantly put it here as number three in order to hide it from the GEA (Google Law...
Because German privacy law forbids dissemination of photos of people or their property without their consent, Google gave German citizens the ability to opt out of the service before it even debuted. Google Street View has debuted in Oberstaufen...
German privacy law forbids dissemination of photos of people or their property without their consent. Last year, after data protection officials objected to Google compiling photographs of German homes, Google agreed to erase the raw footage of...
Zeit Online reported that German federal and state government officials are convinced that Google Analytics is against the law in Germany and that it should be forbidden. While the German search market is growing, it also seems to work with its own...
Google May Stop GMail in Germany Over Privacy IssuesThe German government's proposal to monitor and record email usage in their country has Google threatening to stop Gmail service to the country. Byrd, Technology & Marketing Law
AOL on Ad Technology Buying BingeA day after it announced it would acquire Third Screen Media, a mobile ad technology provider, AOL has now acquired a controlling interest in ADTECH, a German ad network with display ad and e-mail marketing...
Google Book Search Wins Victory In German Challenge I wrote earlier this month of a French lawsuit becoming the third one I knew about filed against Google over its book scanning project. But now we're back to three, as Google has just announced...
Book Search Wins Victory In German Challenge Google has just announced that the German one has been withdrawn. s French, German Units; Also Permira, PaidContent.org As many people already know, Craigslist is being sued under federal housing...
It's our belief that the display of short snippets from in-copyright books does not infringe German copyright law. And the Court also rejected the WBG's argument that the scanning of its books in the U.S.infringed German copyright law.
Ask Jeeves Launches (Beta) German Site - It's official. Copyright Law, The DMCA, and Every State of the Union Address Back to 1790 - askSam has just released three new databases (what they call eBooks) that might be of interest to some of you...
It's All About Google Results: German Blogger Asked to Remove Mention Of Organization from His Posts - Via Google Blogoscoped, Philipp reports that a "well-known" German blogger was sent a cease and desist letter by the Sozialgericht Bremen, a...
Again, via Google Blogscoped, Philipp reports that a "well-known" German blogger was sent a cease and decist letter by the Sozialgericht Bremen, a court of law in Germany that deals with cases in the area of German social services.
