Online Law on the World Wide Web
Some 40 million German use of the Internet offers, mostly to gather information, to buy or sell and communicate. Many also have its own website. In all these activities can occur Internet legal issues. These dealt with the right online.
After the nature of the rights to be protected, the online law divided into the following areas:
- Domain Name Law
- Intellectual Property
- Competition Law
- E-Commerce Law
- Data Protection Law and
- Enforcement of law
Rights and obligations of the online legal
A domain is a unique address on the Internet. All legal issues associated with the acquisition and ownership of a domain, regulates the legal domain. Intellectual property deals with goods that are not material, that intellectual property rights such as copyright on text, music, etc. The competition law is to prevent unfair competition. This applies to companies that failed in economic competition against good morals. In e-commerce law, the rights and obligations of online stores are fixed. The data protection law designed to protect personal data. Enforcement law allows the enforcement of legal claims from other areas of online law. This is often difficult, particularly if the "perpetrator", d, h, the violator of rights is not clearly identified or located somewhere abroad has.
Current Online Law
- Google may show up in results small thumbnails. The Supreme Court sees no violation of copyright law (29/04/2010).
- The private operator of a wireless network must use this with "customary security measures" secure. It can be claimed for an injunction, but not for damages (BGH 12.05.2010).
- Upper Regional Court of Hamburg, the 40-clause tipped € on ebay (17.02.2010)
In their return policy to inform its customers many eBay sellers, that they would have to bear the costs of returning the goods if the value of less than 40, - € is. This is now illegal.
- Purchaser of Internet stores that make use of their rear end to get right, back in the future, the shipping costs they were charged with the purchase.
