Law

Richard Wunderlich examines sampling as a key element of contemporary music creation, analyzing its technical foundations and legal implications. Special focus is placed on the newly introduced pastiche exception in copyright law, offering practical guidelines for future legal assessment.

The obligation to conduct a suitability test is the most important legal instrument for protecting retail investors when it comes to investment advice. Zeno Wirtz examines the question of whether the quality of suitability tests can be enhanced by using digital technologies and argues for a legal obligation to implement them.

Despite sexuality having been depicted in diverse cultures throughout the ages, pornography is essentially a term of the modern Western world shaped by outmoded legal prohibitions that served to protect morality. In this study, Anja Schmidt shows how criminal law on pornography should be designed to ensure sexual autonomy. Emphasising that German criminal law has so far provided inadequate protection against image-based sexual abuse, she develops a timelier set of legal policy proposals.

To what extent can the time-bound nature of norms reveal a problem of legitimacy? The current volume of JöR broaches not only the issue of norms potentially losing their legitimacy or authority because of their age but also looks at innovative ways to fill them with new content that fits the changed circumstances, especially when it comes to international humanitarian law and the protection of human rights.