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Supreme Court (finally) rules on article 45d of the Copyright Act
Article 45d of the Dutch Copyright Act (hereinafter DCA) contains the presumption of transfer: unless the parties agree otherwise in writing, the authors of a film are presumed to have transferred their exploitation rights to the producer. The scope of this article has been the subject of discussion …
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New draft EU regulation governing crypto-assets leaked
Last month a proposal for a regulation on markets in crypto-assets (MiCA) was leaked to the press. It is a 168-page document with 114 articles. The proposal sets out four main objectives. First, to provide legal certainty and regulatory clarity for all crypto-assets not yet covered by existing …
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How do you secure the copyright in the source code of bespoke software?
If you have a website, game, webshop, app or computer program developed for you, the copyright in the source code stays with the programmer. The result: as the client you may not change anything in the bespoke software, or have it changed, and you may even have to stop using it. Not exactly …
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Blockchain and the controller under the GDPR: finding a necessary balance for BC to become a mainstream infrastructure
Blockchain was obviously not the focus of the people who drafted the GDPR. It simply wasn’t there yet. The GDPR is written with some sort of central control in mind. That is not how blockchain is supposed to work. The consequences of that, and the way Europechain deals with them, are set out …
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Tokenize the EURO!
When bitcoin was introduced, many believed that this blockchain-based crypto coin would replace “old” money such as the euro and the dollar (also known as “fiat” money). All payments would be made in crypto. Fiat would become obsolete. Users would no longer need banks. They …
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Blockchain and the right to be forgotten
Are blockchain and EU privacy law a bad match? One might think so. Is EU privacy law not all about the right to be forgotten? About being erased from a system you want to break free from? And is it not impossible to be forgotten once your data is on a blockchain? So is blockchain, in this respect, …
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Entrepreneurs, don't forget the deed of assignment for your intellectual property
Entrepreneurs tend to think of almost every legal chore (terms and conditions CHECK; privacy statement CHECK; shareholders’ agreement CHECK) and then forget their intellectual property. More specifically, they forget the deed of assignment of intellectual property (IP). That can have …
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Litigating architects
Litigating architects: a real trend. Take architect Fons Verheijen, for instance, who fought the renovation of ‘his’ Naturalis in court for two years. In a remarkable interim ruling the judge found that the renovation, necessary to accommodate the growth in visitor numbers, infringed the …
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Blockchain: everyone’s a capitalist!
With blockchain one can divide up any object into countless pieces and sell or rent out these pieces, and keep track of everything in a way that is as safe as the old-fashioned land registry, but infinitely cheaper. All the buyers of these pieces become co-owners of the object. The blockchain does …
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Google Customer Match: without consent, dubious from a privacy viewpoint
Widely used and valuable: Google Customer Match. But privacy law will often require consent. Where consent is required and has not been obtained, Google Customer Match is unlawful. Google Customer Match. A useful system for reaching your own customers through Google. It shows an advertiser’s …
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Save the free press: just 1 cent per click!
What if all professionals paid 1 cent every time a visitor clicks on one of the hyperlinks they offer? Then the press, and other producers, would finally be paid a fair price for the value they add. The independent press is struggling. Subscriptions have stalled and advertising revenue is dwindling. …
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Colourful Rebel jumpers
Fashionable Amsterdam is mad about Colourful Rebel’s jumpers. The brand is clearly very popular and is becoming better known all the time. Riding on that success sounds attractive, but how far can you take it? In March 2016 Colourful Rebel discovered that the retail chain Hip&Go was having …
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Startup ESSENTIALS
What to do with shares and shareholders’ agreements? Getting your agreements down on paper: it sounds simple, but once you actually have to work with them your inbox fills up with a ton of documents. What are you supposed to do with all that paper? All you want is to sign and get on with …
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