Apple Inc. en justice: quand les droits intellectuels rencontrent le droit des contrats

La vie des petites et grandes entreprises, en particulier de celles qui sont innovantes, est parsemée de difficultés et …

Entrants’ strategies to compete with incumbent banks

  In our previous post, we explained that non-banks (Google, Apple, start-up companies) compete with banks to offer retail …

Innovation and regulation in the retail banking industry

Over the recent years, several innovations have emerged on the retail banking market: mobile payments, Internet Banking, peer-to-peer lending …

Best wishes for 2015: a year for starting a forward looking reform of copyright in Europe?

The beginning of the year is always a good time for the best resolutions. 2015 should not be an …

Business models for digital goods in the face of the ‘culture of free’?

Piracy of digital goods is an issue that we have already addressed many times on this blog. Here is …

The risk of patent trolls in the U.S. and in Europe: a sequel to a never ending story

The issue of ‘patent assertion entities’ (PAEs) or ‘patent trolls’, i. e. of companies that acquire patent portfolios to …

Can Obama’s initiative ensure that ‘internet fast lanes’ do not develop to the detriment of standard access?

  On November 10, 2014, the US president called the agency in charge of regulating the media, the Federal …

‘Parody’ becomes a concept of EU law: something to applaud or to fear?

After the September 3, 2014 decision of the Court of Justice of the EU in Deckmyn v. Vandersteen,  the …

When solving copyright cases requires to balance fundamental rights

Copyright cases until recently were mainly decided with reference to the rules contained in the statutes (the relevant Copyright …

3 master theses about crowdfunding

Every academic year at the Louvain School of Management, about 500 master theses are defended. Research topics span all …