I am proud to announce that I have been elected as the new Secretary General if the International Foundation of Computer Law Associations. As such I am responsible for the day-to-day-business of the honourable foundation. For example, IFCLA hosts its own international conference. The next one is right on its way to be organised. I...Continue Reading
The proposal for a Digital Markets Act published last year contains regulations for a European approach to market regulation of digital platforms. First of all, this includes the identification as relevant gatekeepers, which are prohibited from certain practices in Artt. 5 and 6 DMA-E. The prohibitions and other provisions of the regulation are to be...Continue Reading
Last year, the ECJ ruled on the jurisdiction of an antitrust action. I wrote about the interpretation on this blog. A few weeks ago, the BGH ruled on the case and referred it back to the Higher Regional Court of Schleswig for a new decision. The full text of the decision was published yesterday. Essentially,...Continue Reading
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This week the EU Commission announced that it has started antitrust investigations against the platform group Apple. Both antitrust proceedings are focused on the terms and conditions of Apple’s platform. One concerns the conditions for the App Store (Commission press release); the other concerns the conditions for Apple Pay (Commission press release). In both cases...Continue Reading
End of last year I reported on the introduction of a new provision in the German ZAG aka PSSA, Section 58a PSSA. You will find this regulation there cited in its entirety. It contains provisions on sector-specific access regulation. It is intended to overcome competitive abuses in the field of mobile payment solutions. This regulation...Continue Reading
In Germany, the following new regulation has been in force since the beginning of this year: Access to technical infrastructure services for the provision of payment services or e-money (1) An undertaking contributing through technical infrastructure services to the provision of payment services or the conduct of e-money business within the national territory (system undertaking)...Continue Reading
Promotion in my own interest: the handbook “Datenrecht in der Digitalisierung” (Data Law in Digitalisation), edited by Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider, Nikola Werry and Susanne Werry, is now available. It is a very opulent volume, which in the end only just misses the 1,000 page mark. Not that the mere number of pages matters: But more than...Continue Reading
Google has been imposed various provisional obligations by the French competition authority Autorité de la Concurrence in connection with the enforcement of the so-called ancillary copyright for press publishers. The company must therefore enter into a negotiation process with the French publishing industry regarding remuneration. Furthermore, Google is not allowed to hide their content. What...Continue Reading
Dr. Sebastian Louven
Since 2016 I have been an attorney at law. I advise mainly on antitrust law and telecommunications law. Further focal points of my work are intellectual property law as well as distribution law and IT law.
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Since 2016 I have been an attorney at law. I advise mainly on antitrust law and telecommunications law. Further focal points of my work are intellectual property law as well as distribution law and IT law.