Our intern Shari Heger and Dr Ralph Oliver Graef about an internship in our law firm in the special edition “Anwaltsblatt Karriere”.

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Cannes Film Festival 2017 is going strong and we were hosting again this years “Film Law & Financing Law” event at Plage Le Goeland on Monday, May 22. International film producers, sales agents, bonds and financiers were enjoying country updates from UK, Italy, France and Germany Wiggin LLP (UK), M&R Europe (Italy), Turquoise (France) and GRAEF Rechtsanwälte (Germany) while having lunch at Cannes beachside.

Foundation, growth, exit – and sometimes crises. We advise media startups and tech startups. Every day and with pleasure.

“With his monograph ‘The Law of E-books and Electronic Publishing,’ Ralph Oliver Graef fills a gap that has been felt painfully for years: There has simply been no work to date that has dealt comprehensively and knowledgeably with the multifaceted issues of electronic publishing. Graef is very familiar with the problem, he is considered one of the most experienced lawyers when it comes to the exploitation of rights ‘around the book’… The book is a great success. Anyone who deals with e-books professionally will put it on their shelf.”s Buch‘ geht… Das Buch ist ein großer Wurf. Wer beruflich mit E-Books zu tun hat, wird es sich ins Regal stellen.“

The Stealth Rights Assault: In what would become the day’s most serious sequence, the panel laid out for the audience the sharp dangers rising on so many sides in terms of licensing intellectual property. Exploring this widening crisis were Copyright Clearance Center’s Michael Healy, Holtzbrinck’s Joerg Pfuhl, Allrights Online’s Chris Kluiters, and attorney Ralph Oliver Graef.

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4th Producers ‘ Breakfast with our partners, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Commerzbank AG, on the topic of “Amazon, Netflix & Co. – Production Location Germany”. Exciting questions around Subscription Video-on-Demand (SVoD), Transactional Video-on-Demand (TVoD), film levy for video service providers, German Motion Picture Fund.

Hamburg Games Conference 2017, powered by GRAEF Rechtsanwälte, was once again a great success. This year, the focus was on the topic of “Storytelling”. One thing is clear: The interconnectedness of the audiovisual industries of film and games is on the rise and “stories” speak to us differently than bare facts; they surprise and touch us, are fun and stay in our memories. They are therefore a powerful tool for the games and media industry.

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Interview with Dr. Ralph Oliver Graef, representing the heirs of Astrid Lindgren, Saltkråkan AB, on the legal situation surrounding the use of the term Villa Kunterbunt.

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Congratulations to our clients, Docdays Productions, for winning the GRIMME Award for the film “Ebola: Surviving the Virus”. The “images of grief and pain are never voyeuristic, but embedded in a stringent, dignified description of a social nightmare,” according to the jury’s laudation. Keep up the good work, Docdays Productions, Antje Boehmert and Carl Gierstorfer!

No license fees for the use of the name Villa Kunterbunt by kindergartens and non-profit organizations.

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This year, the Federal Constitutional Court will have to deal with the question of how online archives handle the names of resocialized offenders. GRAEF Rechtsanwälte with a forecast.

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9 of the 17 awards at the German Developer Award went to clients of ours. Congratulations, we are very proud of you!

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Dr. Ralph Oliver Graef will be attending on November 17, 2016, the Annual Conference on European Copyright Law 2016, hosted by the Academy of European Law, and will be giving a keynote speech on “The EU legal framework for E-Books and similar digital works”.

The “Gründerkompass Recht” (Founders’ Compass Law) we co-organized on issues of corporate law, IP law, tax law and employment law was once again a great success. We are looking forward to the continuation in 2017 together with Bucerius Law School.

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Congratulations to our client Gentle Troll Entertainment for the German eBook Award in the category Children and Youth for the app “The Glasses”. The jury praised: “Narrator, music, animations and sound effects are coherent and make this app a great storytelling game fun for kids and parents.”

Our copyright specialist Ralph Oliver Graef writes about fanfiction and the Harry Potter Case: Who owns the story? What about transmedia uses? What happens if someone takes the story or the characters or both of them to enrich the story and keep it growing over time? Go check it out.

Unser Seminar “Rechtssichere Prüfung von Drehbüchern” in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Erich Pommer Institut für Medienrecht am 1. November 2016 in Berlin. Case Studies aktueller Verfilmungen (Uli Hoeneß – Der Patriarch, Beate Zschäpe – Letzte Ausfahrt Gera, Die Entführung des Theo Albrecht). Last call!

We congratulate our clients, publisher Joachim Unseld and Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt (FVA), on winning the German Book Prize together with author Bodo Kirchhoff for his book “Widerfahrnis”. “A loyalty and fidelity that has now been rewarded”.

Our summer party in Sankt Peter Ording. Sun, beach and beach buggy kiting. Thanks to the whole team for a sensational weekend.

“The power of data”, we discussed this with other experts at gamescom in Cologne. Do we control the technology or does the technology control us?

Book review “Recht der E-Books und des Electronic Publishing” by Professor Dr. Jan Bernd Nordemann in MMR

Congratulations to our client Roccat for receiving the German Founders Award 2016

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GRAEF Rechtsanwälte auf dem Bewerbertag Recht in Hamburg am 22. Juni 2016. Treffen Sie Anwälte unserer Kanzlei und informieren Sie sich über die Arbeitsbedingungen und Herausforderungen einer der führenden Medienrechtskanzleien.

For the fifth time, the Bucerius Law School Entrepreneurship Initiative is organizing the Bucerius Startup Compass Law together with the law firm GRAEF Rechtsanwälte.On June 1, 2016, this half-day workshop will highlight the legal challenges that startups face in the various phases of their market entry. Tickets are free of charge! Simply register at www.gruenderkompassrecht.de.

Cannes Film Festival 2016 has begun and we are happy to host again this years “Film Law & Financing Law” event at Plage Le Goeland on Sunday, May 15th. Country updates from UK, Italy, France and Germany will be given by Wiggin LLP (UK), M&R Europe (Italy), turquoise (France) and GRAEF Rechtsanwälte (Germany).

The VG Wort ruling is causing considerable discussion in the book industry. Dr. Ralph Oliver Graef and Christoph Keese (Axel Springer SE) recommend the introduction of a European ancillary copyright at the Publishers’ Forum in Berlin.

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The sale of e-books and enhanced e-books is booming worldwide. The legal issues that arise are diverse and complex. Dr. Ralph Oliver Graef has published the first comprehensive guide to the law of e-books with Beck Verlag and, as an expert in this field, answers questions about publishing law, e-commerce, data protection law, tax law, and copyright, trademark, and competition law, among other things.

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Exciting discussion on the BGH’s VG Wort ruling at the Publishers’ Forum in Berlin with Dr. Ralph Oliver Graef

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A test for the rule of law, but a test that the rule of law will pass.

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