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The respondent in the case, Antonio Alonso, made several mistakes in the proceedings, which made it easy for the German company to claim the arguably non-distinctive domain in a decision made on ...

Some disturbing legal news out of Germany, courtesy of techdirt: A German appeals court has upheld a copyright infringement ruling against a German domain name registrar (Key Systems) which had issued ...

A domain name registrar can be held liable for the copyright infringements of a website it registered if it is obvious the domain is used for infringements and the registrar does nothing to prevent it ...

Sales of pre-owned domain names ending in the German extension — .de – were up 43% in 2008, according to a study on the secondary domain market released Wednesday ...

A large number of domain name cases have been heard in Germany. Dietrich Beier, of Bardehle, Pagenberg, Dost, Altenburg, Geissler, analyzes the significance of the most recent judgments of the Federal ...

In a case that involved the music of Robin Thicke and his album Blurred Lines, a German court has ruled that a domain registrar can be held liable when it comes to copyright infringement. The domain ...

DENIC, the German domain name registry, has removed many of the restrictions applicable to the registration of second-level domain names under '.de'. DENIC decided to allow the registration of one and ...

The court ruled in a case between Universal Music and Key-Systems, the German registrar of the domain name for h33t.com, a torrent tracker site. Universal had wanted to prevent unauthorized ...