It is already common knowledge that the regulations of data protection, in particular the DSGVO and the BDSG, must be observed when processing personal data. Two other sets of standards will now soon have to be observed: The AI ACT of the EU (Artificial Intelligence Act,
At least, this is how the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart saw it (ruling of 31.08.2022, Ref. 4 U 17/22). Time and again, we represent companies that have been wrongly evaluated, for example because the facts were incorrect or the criticism was no longer factual.
This was decided by the Baden Baden Regional Court in the second instance in its ruling of 24.08.2023 (Ref. 3 S 13/23). In this case, personal data of a customer of a company was processed privately, and thus misappropriated and without consent. How did this happen?
Do you have to pay license fees if you use software that uses other software? This question becomes vacant in the context of pay per use models of software providers. These providers claim to have fair payment conditions. One should pay only that,
In the meantime, one new law follows the other and companies can hardly keep up. The Whistleblower Protection Act, or HinSchG for short, which we also affectionately call the Creepy Whispers Act 😉 , was passed on May 31, 2023, promulgated in the Federal Law Gazette on June 2, 2023, and comes into force on July 2, 2023.
The BGH has issued an order referring questions to the ECJ concerning the interpretation of various regulations in connection with copyright law for software. BGH B.v. 23.3.2023 / Hans OLG 7.10.2023 The case: The background to this order for reference is the
