Martin is recognised for his solid legal skills and as an innovative thought leader and strategist within the IT industry. He is a partner in Bird & Bird's International Tech and Comms Group and is based in Denmark. Martin is one of Denmark’s leading IT lawyers with almost 20 years’ experience of advising Danish and international organisations, including large blue chip companies on legal and commercial matters in connection with IT in a wide sense. He is considered a pioneer with respect to legal aspects of Online Technology Solutions (Ecommerce, internet and web services), Cyber and IT security, open source and open data and use of other open licence forms such as Creative Commons.
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07 August 2017
The Danish National Tax Board has given the ok for checking online stores' payment of VAT. The development comes after years of foreign online stores not paying Danish VAT when Danish customers purchase...
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24 January 2017
What happens when codes are released under an open source license? Has the developer in effect written off his right to the code? Can a developer of open source software enforce his rights, or has he released...
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06 January 2017
As has been widely discussed in the Danish tech media, in 2016 several law firms, including OPUS og Njord, have sent out letters to potential violators of their clients' copyrights. This is done by...
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27 June 2016
Every year in April, I, Martin von Haller, participate in FSFE[1] European Legal conference. A conference where open source, legal nerds from universities, law firms and private companies meet to discuss...