On April, 4th, the European Commission announced its decision to refer the ACTA to the European Court of Justice. According to the Commission, this will allow this Court to proceed to a detailed examination of whether the online copyright enforcement measures foreseen under ACTA are compatible with several fundamental rights such as the freedom of expression and information, the right to data protection and the right to property (including that of intellectual property).

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Intellectual property (copyright, neighbouring rights, trademarks, designs, patents, etc.) is becoming increasingly important. Many of our clients' business mainly consists of developing and commercializing assets that are protected by intellectual property rights.

Today the worldwide intellectual property community celebrates World Intellectual Property Day. According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) this is a great opportunity to generate public and media interest in issues relating to intellectual property.

As intellectual property law is one the core specialties of time.lex, we gladly join this celebration.

More information is available on http://www.wipo.int/ip-outreach/en/ipday/2012.

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Jos Dumortier examines the main changes for data controllers

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Mozilla Public License v2 aims to facilitate open source software development involving multiple licenses

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Different criteria for stalking and cyberstalking are not discriminatory

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Report for ENISA, drafted by Neil Robinson and Hans Graux examines the legal and regulatory aspects of information sharing

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The EU Court of Justice confirmed that a cosmetics group is not allowed to prohibit its appointed distributors to sell its products via the internet. In its block exemption for vertical restraints of 2010, the EU Commission tried to combine the open internet market with the requirements of selective and exclusive distribution systems. Can sales restrictions survive in an open virtual market ?

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Facebook recently launched 'Timeline'. Through this tool, users can share their personal history with friends and family. The privacy risks to end users are however very real, and shed new light on the need for a 'right to be forgotten'. Fanny Coudert of time.lex examines this concept in further detail.

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Edwin Jacobs takes a look at the legal challenges surrounding Bitcoin

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A mere ten days before it would have entered into force, the new legislation is taken off the books

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