On 7 February 2012 the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) rendered a judgment not only in the Caroline van Hannover II judgment, but also in the case of Axel Springer vs. Germany. This case resembles that of the Princess of Monaco.
The Axel Springer case is about the publication of two articles about a well-known German television actor in the daily newspaper Bild, of which the Axel Springer group is the publisher. The first article alleged that the actor – who thanks his fame mostly to his role as a policeman – had been arrested for possession and use of [Read more…] about European Court in Axel Springer Case: Publications on Actor’s Possession of Cocaine Allowed
It have been exciting weeks for Danish artist Nadia Plesner. Louis Vuitton sued her over the use of a look-a-like Louis Vuitton bag in her artworks. With these artworks, Plesner tried to raise awareness for the situation in Darfur. See 
Yesterday afternoon, 4 May 2011, the The Hague District Court reversed its own 
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In various TV broadcasts Vara’s program ‘Kassa’ gave attention to the large number of complaints that the Consumer Authority and the Ombudsman had received about telecom company Pretium. In the broadcast Kassa handed over a ‘few kilos of complaints’ to the State Secretary, but did not provide Pretium with a copy of these complaints. However, in the studio Pretium was given the opportunity to give a reaction, but Pretium decided not to.
In July 2008, a listener’s text message was read aloud in a radio program of the Wereldomroep: “And yesterday night was very entertaining with Jonny Walker and the six drivers of Edgard Vermaas, who have become redundant due to a personnel cutback. Welcome at Van Doesburg.” The presenter of the radio program added to this: “That is collegiality says Don Frerik. As we already said before, of course we need collegiality on the road. Because it is already…yes that is hard to find. That is quite something, one business ceases to exist, the other business is taking over staff, I think that is awfully nice.” After the end of the program the Wereldomroep received an e-mail of another listener, who reported that 
On 23 July 2009 the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) gave a judgment in a case that had been brought against France by Hachette Filipacchi Associés – the publisher of the French weekly ‘Ici Paris’. Ici Paris had published an article about the ever-popular French rock ‘n roll singer Johnny Hallyday. The article ‘What if he flops in Las Vegas? Panic stations, Johnny!’ referred to the supposed financial difficulties of the singer. The article was also illustrated by some photographs of advertising material for products with which Hallyday, whose real name is 
