Mass Web Scraping for Copyright Enforcement: A Legal Risk under the GDPR?
In recent years, a growing number of companies offer services to photographers and photo agencies to track down copyright infringements online. While the aim of protecting intellectual property rights is entirely legitimate, the methods of…
Receiving a letter from entities such as Picrights, Fuß & Jankord, Copytrack, Copyright Agent, or Visual Rights Group accusing you of copyright infringement can be unsettling. These organisations act on behalf of their clients –…
US copyright act and photographs Photography was one of the first new technologies that challenged copyright law. In 1865, the US Congress amended the Copyright Act to add photographs to the classes of copyrightable…
Copyright payments for employees: This article explains how to apply the favourable Belgian tax regime of copyright payments to employees. Copyright payments: the favourable tax regime for employees Since the Belgian Act of 16…
Copyright on photographs: In its judgment of 3 November 2021, the Commercial Court of Ghent dismissed the claims of ‘Permission Machine’ (currently known as ‘Visual Rights Group’) against Kortom VZW. Permission Machine had filed a…
Does a company director have to pay VAT on the copyright fees he receives from his own company? This has been a point of discussion for a long time. Now the Belgian Ruling Commission has…
Below is an overview of US case law[1] confirming that there is no copyright in news or history, only in the way of expressing it. This has since long been accepted by courts in the USA,…
This week, the book ‘Copyrights and Taxes’ by Bart Van Besien and Bart Buelens was published by Gompel & Svacina. This book gives a practical overview of the favourable tax treatment of copyright royalties in…
Software developers are getting paid increasingly via copyright payments. These copyright payments are advantageous for both independent software developers and employee-developers. However, it is important to not pay excessive copyright royalties. Belgian tax authorities are…
Yesterday, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) rendered an important decision on copyright law and music sampling in its ‘Metall auf Metall’ decision. The full text of the decision has not yet…
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