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Lawyer Carl Christian Müller
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Fechner Legal is a law firm based in Berlin. The law firm is headed by lawyer Robert Fechner. In cooperation with the photo rights watchdog PhotoClaim, lawyer Robert Fechner issues cautionary warnings for various photographers whose photographs are cited without a license and without attribution.
Yes. Warning letters from Fechner Legal must be taken seriously. Fechner Legal is a law firm that specializes in copyright law, trademark law and competition law. A warning letter can therefore mean that you have committed a potential infringement of these rights.
A warning letter is a serious legal letter that usually contains a demand for injunctive relief, damages and a cease-and-desist declaration with a penalty clause. If you ignore a warning letter or do not take it seriously, further legal steps may follow, such as legal action or an injunction.
If you have received a warning letter from Fechner Legal, you should always respond to it. A warning letter is a legal letter in which you are accused of infringing copyrights or other legal provisions and usually contains a demand for injunctive relief and damages.
If you do not respond to a warning letter from Fechner Legal, this can lead to legal consequences, such as a court action against you or an injunction.
Check the warning letter carefully and seek advice from a lawyer to determine whether the allegations are justified and how you should respond.
In any case, you should not ignore the warning or dismiss it as irrelevant, as this can lead to further legal problems.
If you have received a warning letter from Fechner Legal that contains a cease-and-desist declaration, you should think carefully about whether you want to sign it or not.
A cease-and-desist declaration is a legal document that obliges you to refrain from a certain action in order to avoid an imminent infringement. When you sign the cease-and-desist declaration, you legally undertake to refrain from the action that is the subject of the warning letter in the future.
The cease-and-desist declaration is often combined with a contractual penalty. This means that you must pay a certain amount of money in the event of a future breach of the agreement.
Before you sign a cease-and-desist declaration, you should therefore always seek advice from a lawyer. A lawyer can help you assess the situation and decide whether or not it is in your best interests to sign the cease-and-desist declaration.
No! Although many people are confused by the fact that the warnings from Robert Fechner are sent by email, it is not a fake in any of the cases known to us. A warning sent by email is effective because copyright warnings are not subject to any formal requirements. The reason for sending the warning notice by email is probably because Robert Fechner issues warning notices worldwide. Robert Fechner's warnings are therefore not a rip-off or a scam.
In order to dispel any doubts about the authenticity of the warning letter, a power of attorney in German and English between the lawyer Robert Fechner and a rights holder is always attached to the email. Only if there is no power of attorney attached to the email and the warning letter deviates from the familiar appearance of a "typical" Robert Fechner warning letter should doubts arise as to the authenticity of the warning letter.
Submit your Fechner Legal warning via our contact form. Please describe the background to your case. We will usually get back to you on the day of the request.
We take a look at the warning letter. One of our lawyers specializing in cease-and-desist letters will then contact you and discuss the prospects of success of your case with you. The consultation is free of charge
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Immediately after the initial consultation, you will receive our order documents, with which we will once again confirm in writing what we have discussed. You can then consider at your leisure whether you want to continue with us.
Immediately after being instructed, we will take the necessary steps to successfully defend you against the warning letter. We will inform you transparently about the progress up to the final settlement of the matter.
Wenn Sie eine Abmahnung von Fechner Legal erhalten haben, sollten Sie zunächst einmal Ruhe bewahren. Lesen Sie die Abmahnung sorgfältig durch und holen Sie rechtlichen Rat ein, um die Vorwürfe der Abmahnung zu prüfen und Sie bei der weiteren Vorgehensweise zu beraten. Nehmen Sie jede Abmahnung ernst und reagieren Sie innerhalb der gesetzten Frist, um weitere rechtliche Konsequenzen und Probleme zu vermeiden. Setzen Sie sich deswegen auch hier mit Ihrem Anwalt oder Ihrer Anwältin in Verbindung, um sicherzustellen, dass Sie alle erforderlichen Schritte rechtzeitig unternehmen.
Tun Sie die Abmahnung nicht einfach als Spam-Mail ab, sondern reagieren Sie! Robert Fechner setzt eine kurze Frist von circa einer Woche, in der Abgemahnte eine Unterlassungserklärung abgeben und die aufgerufenen Beträge zahlen sollen. Reagieren Sie hierauf nicht, riskieren Sie von Robert Fechner gerichtlich in Anspruch genommen zu werden.
Zunächst bieten wir Ihnen die Möglichkeit einer kostenfreien Erstberatung. Profitieren Sie von unserer Erfahrung aus mehr als 10.000 urheberrechtlichen Abmahnungen. Wir kennen die Tricks und vor allem die Interessen der Abmahner und wissen, wie man den Schaden klein hält.
Neben dem Unterlassungsanspruch macht Robert Fechner einen Schadensersatzanspruch geltend, der den entstandenen Schaden für die Verwendung der Fotografie ersetzen soll.
Mit dem Schreiben werden außerdem die Anwaltskosten, die den Rechteinhabern durch die Beauftragung von Robert Fechner entstanden sind, geltend gemacht. In den uns vorliegenden Abmahnungen von Robert Fechner sind uns Streitwerte von 6.000,00 EUR von bis zu 42.000,00 EUR bekannt.
Abschließend macht Robert Fechner in den Abmahnungen sogenannte Dokumentationskosten geltend. Dokumentationskosten sind, nach dessen Angaben, Kosten, die den Rechteinhabern mit dem Erstellen der gerichtsverwertbaren Dokumentation der Rechtsverletzung entstanden sind. In den uns vorliegenden Abmahnungen betrugen die Dokumentationskosten regelmäßig 95,00 EUR netto.
Submit your Fechner Legal warning via our contact form. Please describe the background to your case. We will usually get back to you on the day of the request.
We take a look at the warning letter. One of our lawyers specializing in cease-and-desist letters will then contact you and discuss the prospects of success of your case with you. The consultation is free of charge.
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Immediately after the initial consultation, you will receive our order documents, with which we will once again confirm in writing what we have discussed. You can then consider at your leisure whether you want to continue with us.
Immediately after being instructed, we will take the necessary steps to successfully defend you against the warning letter. We will inform you transparently about the progress up to the final settlement of the matter.
Rechtsanwalt Carl Christian Müller, LL.M. Fachanwalt für Urheber- und Medienrecht
The claims asserted by Robert Fechner include the claim for injunctive relief,claims for damages, the assertion of attorney's fees and documentation costs.
If a photograph has been used without authorization,
the rights holder has a claim for injunctive relief against the infringer. The same applies if the photographer was not named in connection with the publication. In this case, the photographer is entitled to injunctive relief due to a lack of copyright identification. The injunctive relief claim against the rights holder can only be fulfilled by submitting a statement of discontinuance with penalty clause. As warning letters such as Robert Fechner set very short deadlines for the submission of the cease-and-desist declaration with penalty clause, swift action is required. Otherwise, there is a risk of an interim injunction being issued, which automatically means higher costs.</p
Despite this, we advise warned parties not to sign the cease-and-desist declaration sent by Robert Fechner without prior review. A cease-and-desist declaration is a contract and the claim is not always justified. If you sign a prefabricated cease-and-desist declaration without prior review, you are bound by the content of the contract for life.
In addition to the claim for injunctive relief, Robert Fechner is asserting a claim for damages. This means that you should compensate for the damage incurred for the use of the photograph. The amount of damages can only be determined on a case-by-case basis and is usually calculated according to the so-called "license analogy" . Robert Fechner uses the fee recommendations of the Mittelstandsgemeinschaft Foto-Marketing (MFM recommendations) to determine the amount of damages. In addition, Robert Fechner demands a surcharge of 100% if the author is not named. In the case of a warning from lawyer Robert Fechner regarding the use of an image in an online store, a further 50% is added, whereas a further surcharge of 120% is demanded for a photograph with "global reach".
In addition to the claims for injunctive relief, the legal costs incurred by the rights holders in instructing Robert Fechner are also being claimed. The legal fees are made up of the value of the claim and the business fee. In the warnings we have received from Robert Fechner, amounts in dispute of EUR 6,000.00 of up to EUR 42,000.00 are stated.
Finally, Robert Fechner claims so-called documentation costs in the warning letters. According to Robert Fechner, documentation costs are costs incurred by the rights holders in creating documentation of the infringement that can be used in court. In the warnings we have received, the documentation costs regularly amounted to EUR 95.00 net.