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"Plagiarize, Plagiarize, Plagiarize...Let no one else's worke evade your eyes" |
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With apologies to the American humourist , Tom Lehrer.
Until recently Spain was considered the ‘wild west’ so far as Intellectual Property is concerned. However as more and more people earn their living from intellectual rather physical work this culture is changing, and the authorities are clamping down on piracy.
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Pink String & Ceiling Wax! A World Bank View of Doing Business in Spain |
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A recent report by the World Bank entitled ‘Doing Business – 2010’ serves to emphasize how far Spain lags behind other developed economies in easing the path of entrepreneurs in starting and running businesses and by implication, how important it is to have access to specialist legal and financial advice.
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The British taxpayer has recently received significant widening of Inheritance Tax exemptions and it can come as a shock for British citizens with property in Spain to discover that the Spanish approach to taxing gifts and inheritances is very different.
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During the late 1970´s and 1980´s the concept of the “Living Will” was developed in Anglo-Saxon countries. The idea is that a person who may in the future become unable to communicate to manage their own medical condition or their other affairs can give written instructions while they are still capable of doing so and appoint a representative to act for them when and if they become incapacitated.
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Gay Marriages and Civil Partnerships on the Move |
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While there are now 22 countries and territories around the world that give legal recognition to same-sex marriages and “Civil Partnerships” or “Civil Unions”, and the number is growing each year, there is as yet no international convention for reciprocal recognition of these legal relationships. Each country or territory has to pass its own legislation to grant recognition to foreign same-sex legal relationships, and this can lead to complex and undesirable consequences in an age of increased international mobility.
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