The International Association of Entertainment Lawyers (IAEL) and Höcker present the legal panel "Privacy in Entertainment" at Eurosonic Noorderslag on Thursday 18 January. The panel will be moderated by Peter Marx (MVVP, BE) and participants ...
Marijn Kingma wrote a commentary on the AKM/Zürs.net judgment of the European Court of Justice (26 March 2017, C‑138/16) for the IER (intellectual property and advertising law) law journal. You will find an English translation of the ...
Höcker Advocaten (Marnix van den Bergh and Paul Jongen) have acted as legal advisors to Between in their acquisition of FastFlex from Q24. Within the Between Group, FastFlex will remain active as an individual part. The Between Group now ...
On 16 August 2012, a major earthquake hit Huizinge, Groningen, causing a great deal of extremely serious damage to buildings. The underlying cause was gas extraction.
Almost 5 years later, most Groningen residents have still not ...
To start with the obvious: the technological developments of the last decade have changed the world we live in. Whether we are listening to music, finding directions, catching Pikachu’s or Charmanders or checking Donald Trump’s Twitter, we ...
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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 ...