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… Zoekresultaten 26 februari 2019 door: in Law The Italian Senate committee tasked with advising the Senate on the lifting of immunities , voted to block an investigation against Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini over his decision to hold over 150 migrants on board a ship for five days. This vote was preceded by an internet … platform . This episode shows a trend towards an abuse of the tool of direct democracy, which creates a worrisome vulnus to the Italian constitutional set up and the principle of the rule of law. Ministerial immunity put to the test of the web The background On Tuesday, the Italian Senate committee tasked with advising the Senate on the lifting of immunities on the basis of Article 96 of the Italian constitution, voted to block an investigation against Deputy Prime Minister Matteo …
… Zoekresultaten 14 augustus 2017 door: in Rechtsgeleerdheid “Dat er een maximum zit aan het aantal uur dat je per week mag werken, dat webwinkels verplicht zijn je de optie te geven dat je je aankoop binnen zeven dagen kunt terugsturen. Dat klinkt heel Nederlands, maar het is Europees recht." Ten … niét een heel grote vinger in de pap hebben.” Wat het imago van de EU nog meer geen goed doet, is dat landen populaire Brusselse wetgeving als hun eigen idee presenteren. “Dat er een maximum zit aan het aantal uur dat je per week mag werken, dat webwinkels verplicht zijn je de optie te geven dat je je aankoop binnen zeven dagen kunt terugsturen, dat ons drinkwater aan bepaalde eisen moet voldoen. Dat klinkt allemaal heel Nederlands, maar het is Europees recht. Die Europese ‘stamboom’ verdwijnt …
… Zoekresultaten 12 oktober 2020 door: in Law In a piece published on the Spectator’s website on the 3d October, Steven Barret erroneously argues that the EU cannot sue the UK. His argument boils down to the statement that states can only violate international law if they adopt binding acts. Hence, as long as the Internal … blogs: General Alumni Arts and Social Sciences Business and Economics Corona Heath, Medicine and Life Sciences Law Maastricht Students Psychology and Neuroscience Science and Engineering Universiteitsraad … In a piece published on the Spectator’s website on the 3d October, Steven Barret erroneously argues that the EU cannot sue the UK. … Why the EU can sue the UK …
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… Zoekresultaten 1 april 2019 door: in Law The recent cancellation decision of the word mark “BigMac” by the EUIPO Cancellation Division has raised several questions: is use of a trade mark on a website sufficient to fulfil the requirement of making genuine use of the mark? Or is evidence of … “BigMac”, which it owned since 1996 in classes 29, 30 and 42. The mark owner MacDonald’s provided multiple evidence to show genuine use, containing: (i) 3 affidavits, (ii) brochures and printouts of advertising posters, (iii) printouts from MacDonald websites and (iv) a printout from Wikipedia. The Cancellation Division did not consider this evidence to be sufficient to establish genuine use. In particular, it explained in the decision that the mere fact that a trade mark is present on a website …
… Zoekresultaten 23 oktober 2020 door: in Law On 15 October, the Swedish Consumer Agency, its Scientific Council and Maastricht University (in particular the Law & Tech Lab) hosted the webinar 'Consumers and businesses in digital markets – An unequal relationship?’, focused on bringing together the perspectives … national consumer authorities, consumer organizations, businesses and supranational law-makers on the challenges and opportunities of digital consumer markets. 'Consumers and businesses in digital markets – An unequal relationship?’ (15 October 2020, webinar organized by the Swedish Consumer Agency/Scientific Council/Maastricht Law&Tech Lab): webinar recording available. During the webinar, 322 attendees were watching the event live, with 470 participants registered in total. This shows a growing …
… Zoekresultaten 10 juni 2022 door: N.J. Philipsen in Law Digitalization has gradually changed business models and reshaped human lifestyles. The rise of business models based on the collection and processing of consumer data allows undertakings to charge business customers and final consumers … prices for the same goods or services, offered at precisely the same time. This technique, which is called “AI-enabled price discrimination”, has deeply affected people’s daily life. For example, when ordering the same hotel room on the same Chinese website at precisely the same time, a loyal customer was charged more than a new customer (see CCTV.com ). Not surprisingly, AI-enabled price discrimination has been widely employed in both business-to-business and business-to-consumer relationships. … prices for the same goods or services, offered at precisely the same time. This technique, which is called “AI-enabled price discrimination”, has deeply affected people’s daily life. For example, when ordering the same hotel room on the same Chinese website at precisely the same time, a loyal customer was charged more than a new customer (see CCTV.com ). … Why AI-enabled price discrimination is not always undesirable: lessons from law and economics …
… Zoekresultaten 1 juli 2019 door: in General Heath, Medicine and Life Sciences Horizon Europe: game change? Van Horizon 2020 naar Horizon Europe ‘Evolution, not revoltion’ was het uitgangspunt bij de start van de voorbereiding van het nieuwe onderzoek- en innovatiekaderprogramma Horizon Europe … leveren alsook bijdragen aan de lange termijn transitiedoelstellingen. Strategic planning van Horizon Europe In de ‘strategic planning’ zal Fase 1 over eigen keuzes maken gaan en wat daarmee te willen bereiken. In Fase 2 wordt hierover een publieke web-consultatie gehouden. Hieruit volgt een ‘Orientation Document’ dat tijdens de publieke ‘Research & Innovation Days’ in september a.s. wordt besproken. In Fase 3 worden de bekende koepelorganisaties geraadpleegd. Hierna wordt in een volgende fase … leveren alsook bijdragen aan de lange termijn transitiedoelstellingen. Strategic planning van Horizon Europe In de ‘strategic planning’ zal Fase 1 over eigen keuzes maken gaan en wat daarmee te willen bereiken. In Fase 2 wordt hierover een publieke web-consultatie gehouden. Hieruit volgt een ‘Orientation Document’ dat tijdens de publieke ‘Research & Innovation Days’ in september a.s. wordt besproken. In Fase 3 worden de bekende koepelorganisaties geraadpleegd. Hierna wordt in een volgende fase …
… Zoekresultaten 14 januari 2021 door: in Law Nowadays, the prominent role social media has in our society cannot be denied, plenty of people define themselves through their presence online. Social media has become remarkably important, so that it is not unusual anymore for an individual to gain money … attention within the platform is also growing and as such, influencers among others will go to great lengths to become more noticeable. This strive has resulted in influencers to pursue an easy way to gain attention by buying fake followers from the web. We, more specifically, will focus on the role of the dark web in those circumstances. Arguably, this matter would not be something usually associated with the dark web and black-market sites. Given the nature of the dark web and the fact that … it materialize into one's account? The concerned offer includes a 100 Instagram likes alongside a ‘Lifetime Warranty’ with no substantial explanation of the latter’s meaning. The offer also abstractly describes how to add those likes to a specific profile. Indeed, the influencer wanting to buy that package would have to provide a link to their profile which would have to remain public in order to gain the fake followers/ likes. No further specificity or software is included in such an offer; …
… Zoekresultaten 10 maart 2019 door: A. Unknown in Law The workshop will focus on different contributions that identify potential legal wrongs arising out of decentralization, with the goal of exploring old and new remedies (both substantive and procedural) that could correct them, while emphasizing the … (Maastricht University), Andres Guadamuz (University of Sussex), Felix Pflücke (Oxford University) and Isabelle Wildhaber (University of St. Gallen). 15 March 2019, Faculty of Law, Oxford University Rewind to the early 1990’s: an infant World Wide Web recently created by Tim Berners-Lee was starting to redefine the way people were connected globally. First came communication services (e-mail) and a shift from physical to digital marketplaces (e-commerce). Then came the rise of Internet platforms, in what is now deemed to be Web 2.0 – prosumers generate content on platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram (social media), or offer their individual services on Uber, Airbnb or TaskRabbit (peer-to-peer/gig platforms). These developments have been both lauded and …