According to the latest Webshoppers report, Brazilian e-commerce grew by 47% in the first half of 2020, the highest recorded increase in the past 20 years. There is therefore an increased need to protect trademarks in the digital environment. Engaging online brand protection services can be an effective method of mitigating all forms of trademark abuse online, enabling owners to consistently enforce their brand rights.
In the film industry a lesser-known actor, so to speak, is intellectual property. This article explains the ins and outs of creative rights in the film industry. Film makers must be able to prove that they own all of the rights to every piece of content in their film. If film makers did not originally create something, they will need a document showing that they have authority (usually ownership of all rights, including in particular, copyright) of use and copying.
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Directors of non-UK-incorporated, non-UK tax resident companies which have some connection with the United Kingdom (eg, UK shareholders) have an important role in ensuring that the company in question does not become UK tax resident.
In the recent case of
HMRC v Development Securities PLC, the Court of Appeal held that a Jersey-incorporated company with a majority of Jersey-based directors was UK resident. Although the facts of the case were unusual, some useful pointers as to what went wrong for the company and how it could have done better can be gleaned from the judgment.
Background
In broad terms, a non-UK-incorporated company is not UK tax resident if its central management and control takes place outside the United Kingdom. The question of how to determine where a company is centrally managed and controlled has been analysed in a series of UK cases stretching back over more than a century. These cases have held that normally a company is resident in the count
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On 24 June 2020 Law 7246 Amending the Law on the Protection of Competition entered into force and introduced significant changes to Turkish competition law, including with regard to the commitment mechanism. The commitment mechanism allows undertakings and trade associations to make commitments in the course of an ongoing preliminary investigation or a full-fledged investigation process to address competition concerns (except hardcore violations) arising from Articles 4 and 6 of Law 4054 on the Protection of Competition, which are equivalent to Articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union prohibiting restrictive agreements and the abuse of dominance. The mechanism aims to address anti-competitive effects in a timely and effective manner and save time and red-tape costs incurred by both the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) and undertakings subject to investigation, as stressed by the vice president of the Ministry of Trade.(1) Further, i
The new London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) Rules 2020 came into force on 1 October 2020 and apply to all LCIA arbitrations commencing from that date onwards. The amendments are an attempt to streamline and modernise the LCIA rules. This article discusses the key changes introduced by the new rules and their likely impact on parties.