Following the symposium "Current problems in German, Turkish and EU Intellectual Property Law"—held in Antalya, Turkey, in October 2024 in cooperation with the University of Augsburg and Ankara University’s FISAUM—the edited volume "Aktuelle Entwicklungen beim Recht des Geistigen Eigentums in der Türkei, Deutschland und in der Europäischen Union" (Current Developments in Intellectual Property Law in Turkey, Germany, and the European Union; ed. Dr. Erhan Temel) has been published by Filiz-Verlag in Istanbul. Professor Buchner’s contribution, "Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for the Law," begins on page 1.

Decisions by German civil courts ordering the Meta group to pay damages for unlawful data processing are currently being handed down almost weekly. Read the latest issue of the NJW (Issue 29/2026) to find out why the appropriate legal basis for such claims is not Article 82 of the GDPR, but rather Section 823 I of the German Civil Code (BGB) in conjunction with Articles 2 I, 1 I of the Basic Law (GG).

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The special issue of the journal “Datenschutz und Datensicherheit” (DuD) on consent under data protection law, edited by Prof. Dr. Buchner and focusing on "Consent: A Never-Ending Challenge" (see editorial on p. 321), has been published. In addition to the data protection challenges posed by consent in mass-market digital business (pp. 325–331), the issue examines in particular the "consent or pay" model (pp. 332–337), the capacity of minors to give consent (pp. 338–343), and consent in relation to photographs and videos taken at events (pp. 344–348). This broad range of topics is complemented by a discussion of the recent judgement by the Regional Court of Frankfurt (Oder) on data processing via Meta’s business tools (pp. 369–375).