Ingo Beckendorf
On 28 November 2016, the Higher Regional Court of Berlin (Kammergericht Berlin) decided, that articles published in a blog can be categorised as journalistic-editorial content and therefore, the party concerned can have a right to reply (10 W 173/16).
The case was based on a dispute between two politicians. A former politician of the German Pirate Party, now a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), brought an action against the author of a blog, one of his former colleagues in the Pirate Party. The plaintiff found statements made by the author in his blog to be…
