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If someone has used your photo without permission, you can take action: a sufficiently creative photo is protected by copyright, even without a copyright symbol (©). First, request by letter or email the...

Suspending an employee is not permitted arbitrarily: you need a good reason, no less severe measures may be possible, and you must continue paying their salary. A suspension is...

A substitution agreement transfers your rights or obligations under an existing agreement to a third party, who replaces you vis-à-vis the other party. That other party must, however, consent to it....

A resolutive condition in an apprenticeship or training contract is interpreted restrictively by the court, due to the closed dismissal system. An apprentice employee who temporarily suspended her healthcare training due to a heart attack therefore simply remained in...

The right of summary execution gives a pledgee (or mortgagee) the power to sell the pledged asset without a court judgment and without seizure, and to...

A purchase option is an irrevocable right to buy something in the future at a predetermined price and conditions. The holder may exercise the right, but is not required to do so...

A product claim that is correct in itself can still be misleading if the average consumer misinterprets it. A face mask with a “protection level of 98.65%” was deemed misleading by the Advertising Code Committee...

A payment reminder, demand letter, summons, and notice of default are not synonyms, although they are often used interchangeably. Roughly speaking, it ranges from a friendly reminder to an urgent demand letter, to a summons (final demand letter...

Without a valid notice of default, you are usually not permitted to terminate an agreement, engage a substitute party, or claim damages. A client who forgot this still had to pay his contractor over 1.7...

In an asset and liability agreement, you acquire individual components of a business — such as customers, inventory, assets, and intellectual property (assets) and specific debts (liabilities) — instead of the entire...