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General Terms and Conditions: Why Copying Them Will Cost You Dearly
Copying another company’s general terms and conditions (algemene voorwaarden) is risky on three separate legal grounds, and those risks are cumulative rather than alternatives. First, terms drafted with an original structure and wording enjoy copyright protection under the Dutch Copyright
Civil litigation in the Netherlands is the procedure by which a court decides a dispute
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International business law is not a single body of rules but the combination of the
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Dutch divorce law does not divide everything in half as a matter of course, and
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A shareholders’ agreement regulates the relationship between the shareholders of a company: how decisions are
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Divorce in the Netherlands has one legal ground and one route: a court must find
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Foreign companies doing business in the Netherlands run into the same handful of legal pitfalls:
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Changing your first name in the Netherlands is a court matter. Under Article 1:4 of
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Changing your surname in the Netherlands is not a court procedure. Unlike a change of
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Manipulation in a legal dispute is answered with a record, not with a diagnosis. Where
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Unauthorised sound sampling is an infringement under Dutch law whenever a fragment of an existing
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Adoption in the Netherlands is pronounced by the court and permanently changes a child’s legal
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A victim in Dutch criminal proceedings is not a bystander. The Code of Criminal Procedure
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