“Forward to a Friend” and Germany
27 November 2013
Many folks have been talking recently about a September BGH decision holding that “emails sent using a ‘send to a friend’ function are considered spam unless the recipient had given prior express consent. Federal Court of Justice, Empfehlungs-E-Mail (I-ZR-208/12) (2013). (A very unofficial Google Translate version of the decision is available here.) This is a