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Each day we publish several articles written by legal and tax specialists from law firms, notaries offices, the legal departments from payroll agencies and tax consultants.
It is the perfect way for lawyers at the Bar, in-house counsel, barristers, solicitors, notaries, bailiffs, paralegals and any other legal professional with an interest in Belgian and European law to keep informed of new legislative initiatives, case law, legal doctrine and all other legal developments on the Belgian legal scene!
On 19 April 2015, Telenet announced its intention to purchase the Belgian mobile telecoms operator BASE, currently owned by KPN. BASE is known as the …
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Belgian collecting society SABAM may not levy royalties on ISPs On 13 March 2015 the Brussels Court of First Instance issued a judgment in the cease-a…
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Dirk Bogaers (Sirius Legal) answers two questions that often arise in the fringe of e-commerce: what VAT rate is applicable on the transportation of g…
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Recent events have shown that companies should be concerned about cybersecurity and data protection as well as the possible consequences for their bus…
Read MoreIn een arrest van 27 januari 2015 heeft het Hof van Beroep van Brussel geoordeeld over verschillende CÔTE D'OR merken en de eventuele inbreuk ervan do…
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On 26 March 2015 the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") held that the EU Copyright Directive (Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parlia…
Read MoreIn Belgium, the largest collecting society for music and movies, SABAM, is calling for payment of copyright fees from people embedding YouTube videos …
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On 13 March 2015, the Brussels Court of First Instance (Rechtbank van Eerste Aanleg / Tribunal de Première Instance) found that internet service provi…
Read MoreOn 13 March 2015, the president of the Commercial Court of Brussels ruled that SABAM, the largest collecting society in Belgium, is prohibited from cl…
Read MoreOn 17 December 2014, the General Court confirmed the decision of the Board of Appeal, finding that Lidl's Community trademark application for the "Del…
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The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office has taken two decisions this Wednesday (25 March 2015) highly anticipated by the agrochemic…
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Een uitvoerend kunstenaar neemt in het kader van zijn dienstverband deel aan een voorstelling. Hierdoor is hij houder van 'naburige rechten' (// auteu…
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In België zijn er twee manieren om een domeinnaam die door iemand anders geregistreerd is terug te krijgen. De eerste manier is via een alternati…
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Kunstschilder Luc Tuymans maakte in 2013 het schilderij ‘A Belgian Politician'. Hij zocht daarbij inspiratie in een foto genomen door persfotografe K…
Read MoreOn 15 January 2015, the president of the commercial court of Antwerp rendered his decision in the case of the well-known Belgian painter Luc Tuymans a…
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Recent Belgian case law has brought interesting developments in two major fields of patent litigation. Important decisions were reported in matters of…
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The book XI of the new Belgian Code of economic law («CEL») gathers a significate part of different economic legislations such as intellectual propert…
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Het vonnis van 15 januari 2015 waarbij kunstenaar Luc Tuymans veroordeeld werd voor het "reproduceren" van een foto van fotografe Katrijn Van Giel dee…
Read MoreIn its judgment in joined (opposition) cases C-581/13 P and C-582/13 P Intra-Presse SAS v. OHIM and Golden Balls Ltd regarding the registration of the…
Read MoreThe Court of Appeal of Brussels has decided that red soles of the brand Louboutin are a valid trademark. As a consequence [of this decision], other sh…
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