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On 14 August, the Act of 30 July 2018 on the protection of trade secrets was published in the Belgian State Gazette, finally providing a framework for…
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On 12 September 2018, the European Parliament adopted a new draft Copyright Directive (the so called “Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Mar…
Read MoreThe revised Belgian Surveillance Camera Act (“Act”) entered into force on 25 May 2018, at the same time as the GDPR. The Act applies to all cameras th…
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On 5 September 2018, the Act of 30 July 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data (hereinafter the "Act…
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Het is aftellen tot Groot-Brittannië op 29 maart volgend jaar de EU verlaat en tijdens dat lange aftellen neemt de stress in het VK elke dag verder to…
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Le web scraping est aussi appelé « screen scraping », ou « harvesting ». Ces termes recouvrent l’ensemble des techniques consistan…
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Le Parlement européen nous a tenu en haleine tout l’été. Après une véritable guerre de lobbies, il a fini par adopter, après un premier refus retentis…
Read MoreThe Belgian Law of 30 July 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data (“Law of 30 July 2018”) …
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The process for the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is occurring in two phases in Belgium. The first phase was the …
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On 12 April 2018, the Dutch-language Commercial Court of Brussels (the “Court”) gave judgment in a dispute between Novartis AG (“Novartis”), a pharmac…
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The EU – US Privacy Shield was adopted in July 2016 as a replacement of the Safe Harbor regime, which was struck down by the EU Court of Justice (“CJE…
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On 10 July 2018, the EU Court of Justice rendered a judgement in a case relating to the data processing activities of the Jehovah’s Witnesses Communit…
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On 21 March 2018, the Belgian Parliament adopted a law amending the Belgian Camera Act of 2007. The primary goal was to create a more adequate legal f…
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La mise en ligne sur un site Internet d’une photographie librement accessible sur un autre site Internet avec l’autorisation de l’auteur, nécessite un…
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Blockchain, considered to be the greatest technological innovation since the internet, is currently also one of the most debated technologies. From a …
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The CJEU sided with Mitsubishi and ruled that a trade mark proprietor has the right to oppose the removal by third parties of its trade marks and thei…
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In its recent Nestlé v Mondelez decision (C-84/17P, C-85/17P and C-95/17P), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) confirmed that the acqui…
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The Dutch Data protection authority (Autoriteit persoonsgegevens –“AP”) recently informed the public that they were assessing the GDPR compliance leve…
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In its judgement of 5 June 2018, the EU Court of Justice (“CJEU”) had a clear message for owners of Facebook Fan Pages: because of your choice to use …
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This series provides more detailed insight into the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), which was published on 4 May 2016 and entered into ef…
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