tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post7966241021915078606..comments2024-03-29T13:59:42.629+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Bundesgerichtshof on the "lawfulness of a press report"Verónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-79805432991442420332011-06-29T13:04:09.621+01:002011-06-29T13:04:09.621+01:00I agree with Mark.
Furthermore, we must remember ...I agree with Mark.<br /><br />Furthermore, we must remember that the Nazis and their values are still revered by a part (be it a tiny minority) of the German community, and I am not referring to swastika-flag-waving-skinheads. Such attitudes to these evil people still express themselves in places like Serbia.<br /><br />I find any remark that tries to highlight a 'nice' Nazi belief as indicative of a person who does not find 100% abhorent the actions of the Nazis or other 'ethnic-cleansing' actions.<br /><br />Being happy with a Nazi-era statute, such as a law that says domestic waste should be collected weekly, is completely different to saying "at least the Nazis understood the needs of the people and their requirements for satisfactory waste management". The newsreader appears to have gone for the latter means of expression.<br /><br />I like the way Germany clamps down hard and prevents history from being re-written, because without their actions it will be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-12843176859931068022011-06-29T00:29:46.671+01:002011-06-29T00:29:46.671+01:00People who do not wish to be 'misquoted' a...People who do not wish to be 'misquoted' as sympathetic in any respect to Nazi ideology should probably avoid expressing positive views about any aspect of that regime.<br /><br />To do so is undoubtedly an expression of free speech, and to be defended as such. However the consequences are completely predictable, and it is surely the responsibility of the (deliberately outspoken) speaker, not the courts, to deal with this.<br /><br />If the day ever comes that one can speak with approval of the Nazi regime <i>without</i> causing outrage, I shall be concerned that we have forgotten what happened.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157794228297387928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-26759398391893680072011-06-24T10:09:51.332+01:002011-06-24T10:09:51.332+01:00The employee inventor statutes simply put into leg...The employee inventor statutes simply put into legal form the contents of collectively-negotiated deals between employers and unions back in the 1920s, I believe.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01123244020588707776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-6779562344007876302011-06-24T09:45:14.295+01:002011-06-24T09:45:14.295+01:00I was once told by a German Patent Attorney that t...I was once told by a German Patent Attorney that the provisions of German patent law providing compensation for employee inventors for use of the invention by the employer, and the right to take over his invention where the employer is no longer interested, are some of the last Nazi-era laws that remain on the statute book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com