Start-up legal training sessions: Open Licenses

Start-up legal training sessions

The Betagroup Coworking Brussels and Field Fisher Waterhouse have partnered to bring all the Betagroup community a new series of free training sessions covering practical legal issues for start-ups, with a particular emphasis on the internet and web industry.

The purpose is to provide the participants with a basic knowledge of essential legal issues in corporate, IT, IP and commercial contracts.

Each session conducted in English will address a specific topic and will be presented by lawyers specialised in their field. The presentations will be to the point, non-academic and will handle the subject with pragmatic approach, based on previous experience.

The sessions will be followed by a Q&A and a drink where you will be able to ask your questions and share experiences with speakers and participants.

Which brings us to the subject of our sixth session:

Agenda

Since most of the start-up companies will be using or even producing open source content (software or even music, pictures and content), we propose to explore the basic principles behind open licenses. There has already been several decision by european courts in this area and we can briefly take a look at them to illustrate in a very practical way the risks associated with the use of open content when you
do not comply with the licenses.

The presentation will be half an hour long, followed by Q&A and a drink to keep on asking questions to the speaker.

Speaker

Louis-François du Castillon, Of Counsel, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP

Louis-François is a corporate and M&A lawyer passionate about entrepreneurship. He assists companies in all steps of their development since more than 12 years. He has assisted in many projects in their early stage and further development, finding ideas to help the founders to formalize their ideas and securing their projects. He repeatedly has been selected for inclusion in legal directories as Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.

Who is it for?

Anybody thinking about creating their own company.

Brought to you by

Brought to you by

Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP

A full-service European law firm with offices in Brussels, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, London,
Manchester, Munich and Paris. Our Brussels office has 46 lawyers (including
15 partners), who assist a wide range of clients, advising across the full range of legal
issues. Our practice areas include commercial law, contracts and fraud, competition, corporate,
dispute resolution, employment and benefits, energy, EU regulatory, intellectual property
and new technologies, public procurement and administrative law, real estate and tax.

Betagroup ASBL

A community of over 5.000 web entrepreneurs in Belgium, passionate about Internet, Software, Mobile Technologies and Online Media. We aim to connect entrepreneurs, creative thinkers, software developers, digital marketers, web designers, web agencies, advertisers, publishers, VC’s and business angels to innovate together. We want to provide a platform to meet each other, present our projects and foster new collaborations.

Betagroup Coworking Brussels

We are more than a business center or a virtual office: we are a professional network. Our members are freelance professionals, entrepreneurs, & teleworkers of different breeds and trades. We help you connect and collaborate with all, so that you can hire and be hired more easily, and launch your company in a startup friendly environment. Plus, Jean & Ramon, the founders of the Betagroup Coworking, are two of the best connected internet people in Belgium.