Legal Basis - § 5 UrhG (Amtliche Werke)
"Gesetze, Verordnungen, amtliche Erlasse und Bekanntmachungen sowie Entscheidungen und amtlich verfasste Leitsatze zu Entscheidungen geniessen keinen urheberrechtlichen Schutz."
Translation: Laws, ordinances, official decrees and notices, as well as decisions and officially drafted headnotes do not enjoy copyright protection.
This means:
- You can freely copy, redistribute, and use German law texts
- You can charge for access to these texts
- You can build commercial products using them
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- Operated by Federal Ministry of Justice (Bundesministerium der Justiz)
- No explicit commercial use restrictions stated
- No licensing terms mentioned for the text content
- Standard liability disclaimer
Implication: Since § 5 UrhG makes the texts public domain, no additional restrictions from the website apply to the text content itself.
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