On 8 December 2024, the European Union’s amended Design Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/2822) and the revised Design Directive (Directive (EU) 2024/2823) entered into force. One of the aims of the reform is to modernise and harmonise European design law. Below we present some of the forthcoming changes in design law. Change of terminology As a …
Licensing International – for the world’s leading association of the licensing industry Dr Ursula Feindor-Schmidt, LL.M. (LAUSEN, Media & Technology Law) will hold the following live webinar ‘AI for the content industry: How to implement artificial intelligence securely in your company’. 20 February 2025 13:30 – 14:30 CET Live webinar/ will be held in German …
Rather inconspicuously, the Berlin Administrative Court issued a decision shortly before Christmas (see decision of 17 December 2024, ref. 32 L 221/24): Spotify does not have to implement the transparency requirements under Section 93 of the Interstate Media Treaty (MStV) for the time being. So far so unspectacular, you might think, unless you are Spotify …
The editorial team of Legal500 has published the shortlist for the Legal500 Germany Awards 2025, which were launched last year. LAUSEN has been nominated as Team of the Year in the category ‘Tech & Media’ and as ‘Boutique of the Year’. We are delighted to be among the nine law firms nominated in both categories. …
LAUSEN has been recognised by FOCUS-Business as a top commercial law firm for media and press for the 10th time in a row. Germany’s top commercial law firms have been honoured annually since 2013. A total of 26,000 lawyers from commercial law firms and commercial law departments were invited to participate, with more than 3,000 …