Speech held at ALAI Congress “Copyright – to be or not to be”, Copenhagen 19 May 2017
The very fundamental right that limits the scope of copyright is also a major justification for copyright protection: freedom of ...
The WWZ is not just relevant to ‘ordinary’ employees. The position of managing directors with employment contracts has likewise changed as a result of this new Act. To what extent, though? A recent case before the Rotterdam District Court ...
Jacqueline Seignette gave a presentation on the new EU Value Gap Proposal and the Sanoma/GS Media case at the Dutch Copyright Association seminar on October 14th. You can read her presentation here.
More and more often, employers are including non-solicitation clauses in their employment contracts. A recent decision by the District Court of the Northern Netherlands shows once again how important it is for employers to formulate such clauses ...
"Höcker is very nice to work with, easy to communicate with, and the lawyers catch up with the major issues quickly and can get straight to the point." That’s what the latest edition of Chambers Europe had to say about our services.
For me, one of the nicest aspects of being an M&A lawyer is the international dimension. ‘International’ can mean that I guide a foreign client through a purchase or participation in the Netherlands, provide advice to a Dutch client looking ...
TThe Declaration of Independent Contractor Status (Verklaring Arbeidsrelatie, ‘VAR’) was introduced on 1 January 2002. The VAR has been in its current form since 1 January 2005. If the contractor submitted a ‘VAR WUO’ (VAR with respect to ...
Transparency is increasingly becoming a core value of our daily lives. This value is in keeping with an era in which all information is available (online or otherwise) to everyone and sharing seems to be the norm. The government is subject to the ...
“You don’t #$$% with another man’s vehicle. You just don’t. It’s against the rules.” John Travolta as Vincent Vega in the film Pulp Fiction (1994). The average employee is very attached to his or her lease car. If an employer seeks to ...
At Eurosonic/Noorderslag in Groningen (the Netherlands) IAEL organised the successful Legal Panel on “Clearing Live Performances” moderated by Willem Roos. In front of a packed room “The Legal Panel” discussed many practical questions ...
In two rulings on 29 December 2015, the Arnhem-Leeuwarden Court of Appeal concluded that SNS Bank and Rabobank were liable for violating the special duty of care which the banks had. Both banks had provided very large mortgages to the aggrieved ...
The Amsterdam District Court rendered a judgment today in the appeal by the independent, non‑profit organisation foodwatch against the Dutch State Secretary for Economic Affairs. The issue in this lawsuit was whether the Netherlands Food and ...
My practice involves legal matters to which Dutch law is applicable, both nationally and internationally. As such, either or even both of the parties involved may not understand the Dutch language, and contracts I draft may be in English as often ...
Innovation is as popular as ever. The government has programmes to stimulate it and the private sector keeps hammering on the importance of it. Rightly so: modern society benefits from the profusion of new solutions to the problems it faces. ...