Advertising and coronavirus – jurisprudence of German courts
The tendency to use more or less suggestive references to the fight with corona virus in advertising since the beginning
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German jurisprudence
The electricity supplier cannot compare incompatible tariffs
The electricity supplier presented on its own website the price tariff and compared it with the tariffs of other local
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Change of electricity supplier – misleading information on the amount of prepayment
Everyone who runs a household knows well what the fixed costs of living mean. Whether it is rent, water or
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Mineral water can only be described as ‘bio’ if it fulfils certain criteria
Marking products with the prefixes “eco” or “bio” is subject to control under EU Regulation no 834/2007. Their use in
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Who is bound by the EU rules on labelling of organic products?
The Court of Justice of the European Union in its judgment of 12 October 2017 in case C-289/16 interpreted the
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Influencers violate law when they do not mark the links as advertisement
The Regional Court in Karlsruhe in the judgment of 21 March 2019 stated that influencers who publish on Instagram and
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Hashtag #ad at the end of the post on Instagram is not sufficient advertisement’s marking
The Higher Regional Court in Celle on 8 June 2017 delivered the judgment in which it stated that the big
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Obligation of marking of influencers’ advertisements depends on the content of the certain post
The Higher Regional Court in Berlin in the judgment of 8 January 2019 stated that not every influencer’s post which
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Higher Regional Court in Cologne examined the question of legal admissibility of offering software blocking online advertising. The publisher of
Read moreRequirements for advertising using quality marks
In the judgment of 21st July 2016, the German Tribunal of Justice defined/stipulated what criteria must be met so that
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