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Álex de la Iglesia’s Goya Awards discourse

On February 16, 2011 By pepi

Unfortunately, the Spanish Parliament has finally enacted the Sinde Law (Law without downloads). This Sinde Law brings, in a way, internet into the middle ages, meeting a new digital Inquisition. The new law has been born by 323 affirmative votes, 19 votes against (one of them, going against her own party, the Read More →

FreeLex project is here!

On February 15, 2011 By pepi

We are used to surf the web and use some of the services that live in there. However, every time we have to face a “Users Agreement”, some “Terms of Use” or a “License”, we tend to do what in the real life we don’t: clicking the “AGREE” button without reading them. Let’s face the [...]

The New Spanish Digital Inquisition: “la ley Sinde”

On January 26, 2011 By pepi

Imagine the following scenario. One day, the SGAE (Spain’s royalty-collection agency, similar to the RIAA) decides to “launch” a Manifesto demanding, among many other things, the end to free music downloads in Internet. After a while, the Spanish Government, doing an act of assistance, is trying to enact a new and disturbing law [...]

The Japanese Jury System

On January 5, 2011 By pepi

The Japanese Jury System started on May 2009. Since then, till July 2010, it has been present in 60 different district Courts, seeing around 800 hundred cases. During this time, 5,222 juries have been able to experience this new system. Furthermore, during 2010 around 344,900 applications have been filled for new juries. It seems [...]

Knowing your Trademark before registering

On May 11, 2010 By pepi

Knowing your Trademark before starting the process of registration is a must to be able to succeed. Wherever you want to register your trademark in the world, there are some common steps everyone should make in order to have a registered trademark. One of the most important requisites is uniqueness. Thus, to know if your [...]

Example of a Japanese Contract of Employment (2)

On April 21, 2010 By pepi

We already saw a bad example of a Japanese Contract of Employment in a previous post.This time we are going to see a good example of an Employment Contract written in English. As I did in the previous post, I erased the names of both parts.

For further information about what not to [...]

Spain up to erase its emigrants voting rights

On April 2, 2010 By pepi

The Spanish Government, in coalition with the opposition, up to mutilate the right of vote of 1,3 million Spaniards whose residency isn’t into Spanish territory.

According to El País, one of the mainstream newspapers of Spain, major political parties, PSOE and PP are up to erase the right of voting to the [...]

Example of a Japanese Contract of Employment (1)

On April 2, 2010 By pepi

Here you have a bad example of a Japanese Contract of Employment. I erased the name of both parts. Its content is quite uncertain and the only part in English was the word “signature”, just in the place where the future employee had to sign. You can use it as a guide, but please remember [...]

Trademark yourself in Japan (2)

On March 31, 2010 By pepi

Before registering your trademark and after making your first research and knowing about the trademark you want to use, where to register it, and if you have other trademarks already existing around, you could maybe think about changing something or adding something unique to your trademark to make it different from others.

If you [...]

Trademark yourself in Japan (1)

On March 30, 2010 By pepi

Have you ever thought of registering your own Trademark in Japan? Though the process of registering a Trademark can take months, be quite slow, and offer you no absolute guarantees that your trademark will be granted (absolute guarantees in law do not exist), you can try to register your trademark yourself. First of [...]