The EU’s data strategy creates a new area of law: data business law. While data law has so far focused primarily on the protection of personal data and, most recently, on the security of the data infrastructure, the new legal acts (Data Act, Data Governance Act and the sector-specific data rooms) aim primarily at efficient… Read more »
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Podcast: The AI Act – The EU Commission’s plans for regulating artificial intelligence
The EU wants to create one of the world’s first laws for the comprehensive regulation of artificial intelligence. As early as April 2021, the EU Commission had therefore presented the first draft of a regulation. In December 2022, the Council of the EU has now published its position on this draft – with some explosive… Read more »
Podcast: Legal questions concerning Mastodon
After Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, many users cancelled their accounts and migrated to other social networks. For many users, the search for an alternative microblogging service leads directly to the decentralised platform Mastodon. Mastodon is part of a larger network of decentralised networks called Fediverse. In this episode of “Weggeforscht”, research… Read more »
Podcast: What exactly was that about platform liability?
In August 2022, an episode entitled “Can platforms be perpetrators?” dealt with the copyright liability of platforms. In this new episode, research assistants Johanna Voget and Klaus Palenberg delve into the topic and explain the interplay between the case law of the ECJ and BGH on “Störer” and “Täterhaftung” (Breach of Duty of Care) and… Read more »
May examinees be monitored online or must they be monitored online?
In the context of the Corona pandemic, e-exams, which had previously only been widely used abroad, spilled over into Germany. This made it possible for students to take exams from home comfortably and without the risk of infection. However, in order to maintain the equality of opportunity under examination law, which is already constitutional, monitoring… Read more »
Podcast: New chapter in the history of data retention
In mid-September, the ECJ made another decision on data retention. In this new episode of Weggeforscht, research assistants Johanna Voget and Klaus Palenberg report on the ruling, according to which targeted and warrantless retention, as provided for under the current German regulation, is not compatible with European law. They also point out the leeway that… Read more »
Podcast: How open are the government’s data?
Some time ago, the European Union and national legislators recognised the potential of data generated by state institutions. Uncomplicated access to government data is of enormous relevance not only in the entrepreneurial sector, but also in research. The term “open data” is used to describe data that is available to the public. In this episode… Read more »
Podcast: Can platforms be offenders?
At the beginning of June 2022, the Federal Supreme Court (BGH) decided, contrary to its previous case law, to what extent platforms such as YouTube can be liable for copyright infringements by their users. In the run-up to this decision, the BGH had submitted several questions on platform liability to the Court of Justice of… Read more »
(Deutsch) Podcast: Renate Künast und das BVerfG
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(Deutsch) J!Cast: Juristische Ausbildung, Legal Tech und Datenschutz in Österreich
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