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Photographs now are presented in museums as work of art, and their creators are considered as artists. And me skribbling an illustration on a piece of paper doesn’t make me an arti…

As explained in the judgement, being well-known is irrelevant. This is not about consumer protection, but about brand protection. You are right that the decision has the potential …

Open AI has an independent descriptive meaning as composite term. You would practically trademark a whole class of products, not only a brand name. In contrast, open text is not de…

The app is open source, and it doesn't do that. I agree that governments should minimize collection of their citizen's data. I just don't see where it is supposed to happen in this…

They have this information anyway if you have an EU passport or an identity card. The government app allows you to share selected properties of these documents with third parties.

You receive permission to use and modify a piece of software under conditions set by the creator. It is a license, not a gift. If you don’t like the conditions, use something else …

booking.com is in NL, and Spotify in SE. Both outcompeted quite some US competitors. I would add Hetzner as an example that EU labor laws are no obstacle to being competitive with …

The harm was not done to the readers of the AI generated response, but to the defamed companies. And yes, it is ok to remove choice if the existence of that choice violates other p…

The ones who were defamed are companies, and the ones who don’t check the AI generated response are their potential customers which won’t buy from them. It is obvious that the defa…

> Just like 1.3 million global road traffic deaths per year are the price society pays for having cars, and believing that people should still be able to freely own and drive cars …

In German law, any contract, including bets, is void if it is “sittenwidrig”. For example, if your wager in a bet is to become one’ slave in case you lose, this bet is void.

It's ok if they pay their taxes in shares, in case they ran out of money.

Lagarde is not a convicted criminal. She was convicted for negligence, but this is not a criminal conviction.

The regulation is enforced if someone uses it as title, e.g “Diplom-Ingenieur Max Mustermann”. I am not aware of a court ruling for any other kind of use. That being said, in Germa…

It's different with services. If you close a mobile phone contract and use it for spamming, the supplier can cancel your contract.

It was not a flawed idea, but flawed execution. The law should have mandated to adhere to the user's "do not track" setting in the browser. That being said, it was very early regul…

As part of a smalltalk training, we had to go out and approach strangers in the public. I entered a tram to try my luck. As soon as as I sat down, someone else started to talk to m…