Adblocker: Springer with Stage Victory in Front of the Bundesgerichtshof

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Partial success for Axel Springer: The BGH returns the procedure for the copyright admissibility of adblockers to the preliminary instance for renegotiation.

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All at the beginning: In the dispute between the Springer Group and the advertising blocker provider Eyeo, Springer achieved a partial success. The BGH refers the dispute back to the OLG Hamburg and criticizes the ruling of the first instance. Thus, the OLG had not sufficiently dealt with the peculiarities of a browser. Moreover, it is unclear and contradictory whether the advertising blocker intervened in the code of the Springer websites. Spri…

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In the lengthy dispute over Adblock Plus, Axel Springer wins a stage victory in front of the Federal Court of Justice. The judges still see a need for open clarification in the field of copyright law. The article Werbeblocker: Axel Springer achieves partial success before the BGH first appeared on sales management.

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With advertising blockers, users can suppress annoying online advertising on websites. But is the copyright of website operators infringed? This was now the topic in Karlsruhe. Due to open technical and legal questions, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has remitted a long-standing legal dispute over advertising blockers to websites at the Oberlandesgericht (OLG) Hamburg. The media group Axel Springer thus achieved a partial success in Karlsruh…