This year, the ICSC Law Conference on October 14-16 celebrated its 50^th Anniversary. The planned pomp and circumstance were eliminated due to COVID-19, but the conference was still held using a virtual platform. While less than typical in-person attendance, there was still an impressive number of attendees, reaching 850!

In the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, companies have shown a certain reluctance to register and maintain industrial property rights, says Christoph Jonas. He gives recommendations how to actively manage IP rights at present.

Private data is the new bargaining chip in the specific area of ​​the Internet. But what makes our private data so important?

As is well known, the AEAT has its own notification regime in its relations with the companies that is developed through the so-called authorized electronic address (DEH). The mandatory electronic notification system (NEO) consists precisely in the exclusive use for the tax administration of the electronic means to make communications to certain taxpayers in a necessary way, and to others (especially non-business or professional individuals) who voluntarily request it if they wish so. Simultaneously, the DEH allows taxpayers to interact electronically with the Administration.

Rapid technological progress and digitalisation lead to the assumption that AI-generated works will not only increase, but also that the influence of humans on the creative process of a work, as required by the current legal situation, will diminish more and more.