LUXEMBOURGIAN CYBER LAW

Abstract

In our information and knowledge society of today the copyright law is essential for an intellectual creation. The protected legal rights correspond to „original works“, to which the creator has to impress a unique shape by his intellectual composing. Thereafter he is solely entitled to publicise his “original work”. In case of copyright infringements the creator may claim monetary compensation and enforce further omission. On the internet copyright infringements can unintentionally, however frivolously be committed. For example by adopting existing formative elements or entire web designs from third parties’ homepages to the own website. The same applies to embedding hyperlinks. That is because web pages are considered protected “original works”. Their utilisation is subject to the creator’s permission.In terms of trademark law it is prohibited to use registered trademarks in the domain. The utilisation of trademarks as meta elements (keywords) within the source code is popular because hereby it will cause a higher attention to the users of the common web search engines. It is, though, a matter of unfair competition. The same applies to the utilisation of protected