> It’s always been the rule in the German-speaking world that websites had to disclose someone responsible, both on-site and in Whois. Only onsite in the publi

> It’s always been the rule in the German-speaking world that websites had to disclose someone responsible, both on-site and in Whois. Only onsite in the publishing information ("impressum"), not in the whois. Also it is only required for websites "used for commercial(1) purpose", but not on private sites not used for commercial purpose. (1: Not perfect translation of the word used in the law. Websites from various organizations can count as "commercial purpose" in that context even if they don't sell you anything and the organization is a political one. Similar in some cases private websites can also count as such.) Similar flyers handed out by organizations, companies etc. have to have publishing information. But flyers handed out by a private person for no commercial purpose and without in anyway being related to a organization do not need publishing information as far as I know. So if you go to a demo and hand out flies of cat pictures you have drawn you don't need an impressum (publishing information) I think.