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englischOn the 9th of September 2021, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled for the first time on the much-debated issue of labelling in influencer marketing. Previously, there had been numerous conflicting rulings by regional courts on the question of which posts must be labelled.
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englischEven in ancient Rome, contracts were modified by side agreements such as the "in diem addictio". This allowed the seller to close the contract with a third party instead of the first buyer within a certain period of time if a better offer was made. But what was a better offer? A higher [...]
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englischIn addition to an introduction to the functioning of blockchain technology, this volume provides an examination of certain problem areas in the use of blockchain-based solutions to combat carousel fraud. These problem areas are not only to be found in tax law, but also in data protection law [...]
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englischCan supervisory board members be compelled to incriminate themselves? This question has received little attention in the legal literature. However, this has fundamentally changed with the so-called Easy-Software judgement of the Federal Court of Justice of 18 September 2018.
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englischThe transfer of personal data in the secondary market poses a number of challenges: From a data protection perspective, the main question is whether and how data protection legitimacy can be established from the perspective of the buyer without direct contact with the data subject. From the [...]
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englischImprisonment for failure to pay a fine (the alternative sentence) is the enfant terrible of the German sanctions law. Introduced as a means of exerting pressure to ensure that fines are paid, its enforcement has a socially damaging effect, particularly on deprived offenders. This is a [...]
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englischCan supervisory board members be compelled to incriminate themselves? This question has received little attention in the legal literature. However, this has fundamentally changed with the so-called Easy-Software judgement of the Federal Court of Justice of 18 September 2018.
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