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The European Union has established a regulatory framework for artificial intelligence (AI) that classifies AI systems according to risk: minimal, limited, high, and unacceptable. The higher the risk to safety or...

You may not simply use music in your YouTube videos or other content: music is also protected by copyright, and in the event of infringement, your video — or even your entire channel —...

In the Netherlands, there is no law that entitles employees to public holidays off. Whether an employee is entitled to the day off — and whether wage continuation or a supplement applies — is determined by...

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...

Truly anonymized data falls outside the scope of the GDPR, but in practice, people often think they are anonymizing while actually pseudonymizing — and in that case, the GDPR applies. Four persistent misconceptions:...

In the case of a temporary contract of six months or longer, an employer must give written notice no later than one month before the end whether the employment contract will be continued (Article 7:668 of the Dutch Civil Code). If he does...

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...

Wi-Fi or Bluetooth tracking to measure visitor numbers is privacy-sensitive: as soon as you link unique codes to smartphones over an extended period, you move from counting people to tracking people. The Municipality of Enschede...

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...

Design rights protect the form, design, and appearance of a product for a maximum of 25 years for the Benelux or the EU. A condition is that the design is new...