Legal Affairs

A database — a systematically organized, searchable collection of data in which substantial investment has been made — enjoys protection under database law. You may not access a substantial part of it without permission or...

Reviews may be anonymous, but fake reviews may not. Anyone who damages a company with fake reviews can be held liable — but for that to happen, the anonymity must first be broken. The Amsterdam District Court mandated...

Since June 7, 2021, new copyright rules apply in the Netherlands due to the transposition of the European DSM Directive. The main consequences: a new exception for text and data mining, better protection and a...

A rental agent who is already acting for the landlord may not charge brokerage fees to the consumer-tenant — regardless of whether they are called “administrative” or “contract fees”. The ACM fined three rental agents...

If you pay based on a (hacked) email to a fake account number, you are in principle not released from your obligation: you must still pay your real creditor. Only if you...

Registering a slogan as a trademark is difficult, because a trademark must indicate the origin of a product and be sufficiently distinctive — and slogans are often purely promotional. Still...

A strict statutory condition is strictly applied if there is no hardship clause — even if that proves unreasonable. A self-employed person without a Chamber of Commerce registration therefore did not receive a Tozo benefit, even though he was...

Under the Residential Tourist Rental Act, municipalities can require landlords to use a registration number, impose a maximum number of rental nights, and issue hefty fines (up to 87,000 euros for repeated housing fraud). Since...

A notice of objection or appeal must be submitted within the time limit (usually six weeks for an objection). If you miss the deadline, this is only excusable if you cannot reasonably be considered to be in default...

In principle, all general terms and conditions are permitted, but some clauses are prohibited or voidable. How much protection you receive depends on who you are: large enterprises are barely protected, the...