General updates *

Poland - December 31 2010
New, electronic writ-of-payment proceedings came into operation in Poland on 1 January 2010.

Co-authors: Kuba Ruiz.

Commentaries on national bribery and anti-corruption frameworks *

Poland - December 31 2010
Corruption has been a major political topic in Poland for many years; however, as yet, there is no unified anti-corruption legislation.

Co-authors: Kuba Ruiz.

Royalties or business profit: double taxation of software licence fees *

Poland - December 17 2010
The problem of international double taxation arose as a result of different methods of taxation used in different countries.

Co-authors: Krzysztof Tusinski.

High Court rules that commercial use of newspaper publisher’s archive constitutes copyright infringement *

United Kingdom - December 14 2009
In October 2009, the High Court held that a newspaper publisher infringed a photographer’s copyright by producing an archive of newspaper back editions containing the photographer’s photographs, with a view to using the archive for commercial purposes.