Ground breaking federal court decision in Germany in favor of Germany´s famous web portal www.bild.de – legal expertise compiled by Hambach & Hambach:
For more information please contact the co-author of the Fantasy Sports Legal Study, Dr. Wulf Hambach (contact details)
Please click here for the official press release in German:
http://www.bverwg.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilung.php?jahr=2013&nr=73
Alan Littler (Kalff Katz & Franssen) and Esteban van Goor (PwC Amsterdam) have recently published a brief article about the implications of requiring remote gaming licensees to locate their servers within the Netherlands as proposed by the draft bill of May 2013. The article, “Dutch Regulation Insight: Server Requirements” was published in iGamingBusiness, Issue 82 of 2013.
Find the published article here.
The following article was originally published in German in the 10/2013 issue of CHIP, one of the leading computer and communications magazines.
by Benjamin Hartlmaier, CHIP ONLINE
Internet gambling is booming: Online casinos are open 24/7, you do not have to leave the house to play, which in return reduces the costs of board and lodging and the virtual roulette and poker tables also always have a seat open. According to estimations by analysts from H2 Gambling Capital, 6.7 billion U.S. dollars were generated with online poker world-wide in 2012. … Continue Reading
by Samuel Martin, Senior Associate, Asensi Abogados
Nobody in the 20th century would expect that serving cookies would be such a complex matter for European regulators in the following century and nothing does it have to do with cholesterol.
When speaking about cookies in the Internet, a broad approach to them needs to be considered as it covers every software installed in users devices when they access a website or download a software application, by which the owner of such website/app or any of its providers, collects information of any kind from such users and his/her device. … Continue Reading
New TÜV study develops assessment criteria for regulators and providers
by Ansgar Lange
Vienna, September 2013. Whenever in recent years discussions in the context of the German inter-state treaty on gambling (GlüStV) have touched on the issue of the regulation of the online poker market, critics of such regulation argued with the horror scenario of money laundering – an argument which up to now has not been sustainable. … Continue Reading
