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miércoles, 24 de febrero de 2021

Rogue websites: Domain registrars have a duty to disconnect

This is quite a controversial topic thus this post is a placeholder for law/GDPR related articles on this topic.


Article 1)

"The German BGH decision confirms that domain registrars have a duty of care to disconnect domains used by websites dedicated to copyright infringement. It is interesting that the BGH did not see domain registrars as access providers, but still applied the duties of care for access providers to them. This needs to be welcomed as a clarification of open legal issues not only in Germany. That said, it would have been good if the BGH had referred some of the open EU law questions to the CJEU. We will have to wait for another day for a final decision on Union law." 
Rogue websites: Domain registrars have a duty to disconnect, says German BGH. Decision available in German.




Article 2)

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted by the European Union (EU) and took full

effect on 25 May 2018. Which are the effects to its policy?