Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Territoriality principle'

The thesis evaluates the  competition law and new legislation adopted under the Digital Single Market Strategy framework and itf effect on the principle of copyright territoriality and current territorial licensing practices. The interest of consumers to access cultural content, the interest of right holders to exploit their work in exchange for renumeration and interest of distributors to secure a broader audience and high income are interests which are taken into account. The thesis discusses how the EU legislation reflects and balance these interests. The thesis also discusses the role of principle of copyright territoriality for business and financial practices in the audio-visual industry.

Den internationella rätten utgörs av mellanstatliga samarbeten mellan suveräna stater på olika områden. De suveräna staterna har exklusiv behörighet att lagstifta inom sina territorier och således har ingen annan stat rätt att stifta lagar som blir gällande på en annans stats territorium. Denna exklusiva rätt till självbestämmande benämns territorialitetsprincipen. På den internationella skatterättens område innebär territorialitetsprincipen att en stat har rätt att beskatta all inkomst som har ett samband med den staten. Detta görs genom att obegränsat skattskyldiga beskattas för all sin inkomst oavsett var den uppstått och begränsat skattskyldiga beskattas endast för den inkomst som uppkommit i den staten.

Då en självständig stat överlämnar en del av sin suveränitet till ett sådant internationellt samarbete som till exempel EG utgör, splittras det i internationell rätt vedertagna territorialitetsbegreppet eftersom den exklusiva lagstiftningskompetensen i viss mån måste delas med EG: s lagstiftande makt. Etableringsfriheten som stadgas i artiklarna 43 EG och 48 EG utgör en del av de åtaganden som medlemsstaterna måste beakta efter inträdet i EG. Medlemsstaterna får därigenom inte i sin nationella lagstiftning ha åtgärder som inskränker gemenskapsmedborgares och bolags rätt till fri etablering. Med tanke på att beaktandet av EG-rätten föranleder att territorialitetsbegreppet splittras kan det ifrågasättas om territorialitetsprincipen har någon ställning i EG-rätten. Härav är det även av intresse att utreda hu-ruvida territorialitetsprincipen kan utgöra en självständig rättfärdigandegrund av nationellt inskränkande åtgärder som anses strida mot etableringsfriheten.

Trots att det råder osäkerhet kring huruvida territorialitetsprincipen utgör en självständig rättfärdigandegrund eller inte åberopar medlemsstater principen på grund av att EG-domstolen erkänt principen i ett mål rörande etableringsfrihet. Därav kan territorialitetsprincipens ställning som rättfärdigandegrund inte enkelt avfärdas.

Vi anser dock inte att territorialitetsprincipen har en ställning som självständig rättfärdigandegrund av nationell lagstiftning som inskränker etableringsfriheten i artiklarna 43 EG och 48 EG. Territorialitetsprincipen fördelar enbart upp beskattningsbehörigheten mellan medlemsstaterna och har enligt oss samma definition inom EG-rätten som den har i den internationella skatterätten. På grund av att territorialitetsprincipen i internationell skatterätt endast används för att definiera en stats beskattningsbehörighet anser vi att principen inte går att använda som stöd för att neka en gemenskapsmedborgare eller ett bolag en skatteförmån enbart med hänvisning till principen.

International law is composed by cooperation between sovereign states within different areas. Sovereign states have the power to legislate within their territories and because of this no other state can make binding laws on another state’s territory. This sovereign right to legislate is known as the principle of territoriality. Within international tax law the principle of territoriality means that a state has the right to taxation within its territory on all income related to that state. This means that those liable to full taxation are taxed on all their income regardless of where the income is earned and those liable to limited taxation are only taxed on income earned in that particular state.

When a sovereign state gives up parts of its sovereignty to the European Community (EC), which is a part of the international cooperation among states, the concept of territoriality is fragmentized since the exclusive legislative power that a state holds must be shared with the legislative power of the EC. The freedom of establishment in articles 43 EC and 48 EC must be respected by the Member States since they through the admission of the EC granted that they would not apply laws that restricted the right for community citizens and companies to establish themselves in other member states than their own. With the limitation of the state’s sovereignty the term of territoriality becomes vaguer and it can be ques-tioned if the principle of territoriality has a position within EC law. It is also interesting to examine whether the principle can be seen as a justification for national law that is in conflict with the freedom of establishment or not.

Even though there is some uncertainty whether the principle of territoriality can be seen as a valid justification or not the member states are still trying to invoke it. Since the European Court of Justice recognized the principle of territoriality in a case concerning the right to freedom of establishment it can not easily be dismissed.

We do not, however, consider the principle of territoriality to be an independent justification for laws that are in conflict with the freedom of establishment in articles 43 EC and 48 EC. We believe that the principle only attributes the right to taxation between the Member States and that the principle is defined as in international tax law. Because the principle is given this definition it can only be used to define a states ability to taxation. We believe that the principle can not be relied upon to deny a Community citizen or a company a right to a tax relief.

Le principe de territorialité domine la matière de la propriété intellectuelle et en particulier celle du droit d’auteur. Si ce principe et la règle de conflit qu’il inspire, la lex loci protectionis, constituaient de véritables avancées à la fin du XIXème s., de nos jours, ils peinent à convaincre. En effet, le principe de territorialité qui est rattachable au principe de souveraineté dans sa dimension de régulation de l’ordre juridique interne subit de multiples remises en cause. Or, en raison de l’intensification des échanges transnationaux, de l’extension des marchés, de la montée des pouvoirs privés économiques, de l’exploitation dématérialisée des œuvres et notamment, la possibilité de les diffuser sur des réseaux mondiaux comme internet, la souveraineté tend à perdre en puissance. Cela oblige à questionner la pertinence d’un rattachement territorial vis-à-vis de réalités a-territoriales. Le maintien tel quel du principe de territorialité, en termes de conflit de lois, atteint alors la sécurité juridique et les attentes légitimes des parties. Le parti pris de ces travaux est celui d’une réévaluation. Il ressort en effet que le recul dans les relations transnationales du principe de souveraineté - qui sous-tend le principe de territorialité - devrait se traduire sur le plan de la règle de conflit, par un recul de ladite territorialité. A rebours de la tendance générale qui consacre l’hégémonie de la lex loci protectionis, les présents travaux proposent d’une part, d’en circonscrire la compétence dans les domaines où le principe de territorialité ne s’impose pas comme une nécessité, et d’autre part de réorienter le rattachement de manière à limiter la concurrence des lois applicables. Il s’agit, en d’autres termes, de réserver une place à l’universalisme compris comme un rempart contre la variabilité du droit applicable et l’insécurité juridique que cette variabilité pourrait emporter
The principle of territoriality dominates the field of intellectual property and that of copyright. If this principle and the conflict rule it inspires, the lex loci protectionis, were real advances at the end of the 19th century, they are nowadays difficult to convince. Indeed, the principle of territoriality, which is linked to the principle of sovereignty in its dimension of regulation of the internal legal order, is undergoing multiple challenges. However, because of the intensification of transnational exchanges, the extension of markets, the rise of private economic powers, the dematerialised exploitation of works and in particular the possibility of disseminating them on global networks such as the Internet, sovereignty tends to lose significance. This forces us to question the relevance of a territorial connection to a-territorial realities. Maintaining the principle of territoriality as it stands, in terms of conflict of laws, then reaches legal security and the legitimate expectations of the parties. The approach taken in this work is that of a re-evaluation. It emerges in fact that the retreat in transnational relations of the principle of sovereignty - which underlies the principle of territoriality - should be translated in terms of conflict rule by a retreat of the said territoriality. Against the general trend which confirms the hegemony of the lex loci protectionis, the present work proposes, on the one hand, to circumscribe its competence in the fields where the principle of territoriality is not imposed as a necessity, and on the other hand to reorient the connection in such a way as to limit the competition of the applicable laws. In other words, to reserve a place for universalism understood as a bulwark against the variability of the applicable law and the legal insecurity that this variability could entail

Alors que sa disparition semble se profiler à l’horizon, du moins à l’intérieur de l’espace Européen, la notion juridique de frontière qui dessine les limites du territoire de l’Etat reste l’objet d’une imprécision surprenante. Aucune définition générale et intelligible ne semble encore lui avoir été consacrée, nonobstant la place centrale qui lui est attribuée par nombre d’analyses savantes sur les institutions de la modernité politique (Etat, souveraineté, territoire). Une tentative de définition (ou de théorisation) de la frontière est donc nécessaire. Théoriser la frontière n’implique pas de s’éloigner de la réalité : ce sont au contraire des données empiriques, sélectionnées à l’intérieur d’une foison d’informations disponibles sur le sujet, qui doivent guider un travail de systématisation. Au sein de celles-ci, la place privilégiée du droit fiscal (interne, communautaire et internationale) s’explique par les affinités personnelles de l’auteur. Ce dernier n’a toutefois pas omis de balayer d’autres disciplines, à l’instar du droit international public ou du droit international privé, aux fins de caractériser une substance irréductible et invariable de la frontière. Deux fonctions distinctes, bien que complémentaires, s’imposeront très rapidement comme les éléments constitutifs de la notion de frontière : la ligne réputée impénétrable en droit international qui sépare les territoires des Etats, d’un côté (ou « frontière internationale »), le filtre perméable qui régule les circulations entre les territoires des Etats (ou « frontière-obstacle »), de l’autre. Le temps et l’espace imposeront de limiter l’analyse au premier élément, à savoir la frontière internationale. À raison de ses fonctions pour commencer : quel est son rôle ? Mais aussi à raison de son objet : à quoi, ou à qui, s’applique-t-elle ? L’analyse des fonctions permettra d’abord de vérifier que la frontière internationale, en tant que cause et conséquence du principe de l’exclusivité territoriale, est étroitement liée à la notion d’Etat moderne. La naissance de la notion moderne de souveraineté, dans la mesure où elle est largement tributaire de la conquête du monopole de la violence légitime au profit des autorités centralisatrices de l’Etat, n’aurait pas été envisageable sans la constitution de frontières impénétrables aux limites du royaume. Plus largement, bien des notions fondamentales associées au droit étatique moderne (intégrité territoriale, centralisation de la contrainte, dualisme juridique,…) peuvent être reconsidérées à la lumière de la notion de frontière. L’analyse de l’objet de la frontière internationale permettra, ensuite, de surmonter bien des incertitudes. Celle qui touche, en particulier, au rapport entre la frontière impénétrable et le principe de territorialité des lois (ou des impôts) : la territorialité normative, sous toutes ses formes, ne peut-être assimilée à une manifestation (ou à une composante) de la frontière internationale. Celle qui touche, aussi, à la nature et à la portée de l’assistance administrative internationale entre les Etats dans le domaine fiscal. Le développement récent de celle-ci, sous toutes ses variantes (assiette et recouvrement), ne se traduit qu’exceptionnellement par des entorses à l’impénétrabilité des frontières. Toutes les activités de l’Etat n’ont pas, en effet, vocation à s’arrêter aux limites du territoire en application du droit international public. Seul l’imperium de l’Etat entendu stricto sensu, c’est-à-dire le pouvoir coercitif proprement dit, semble être soumis au respect de cette imperméabilité. En somme, à défaut de parvenir à dresser une théorie générale de la frontière en droit, certaines de ses caractéristiques majeures seront en l’espèce esquissées dans l’espoir de fournir au juriste une grille de lecture supplémentaire, et si possible originale, du droit positif
Even though its disappearance seems to be predictable, at least within the European Union, the legal notion of “Border” remains subject to a high degree of uncertainty. No general definition which combines clarity and precision, has been formulated on this matter yet. Therefore, time has come to provide a rigorous “definition” of this limit which separates the territories of the states. In other words, an attempt to theorize the notion of “Border” will be carried out in this book. The choice of a theoretical approach does not necessarily imply, however, to undertake a study remote from reality. To the contrary, an appropriate definition must be based on empirical data: selected matters among the huge amount of information available will be, as a result, the main source of this work. Among them, tax law (domestic, European and international) will play a key role due to the personal background of the author. The latter, however, did not forget to cover other disciplines. A wide-ranging scope is necessary where the objective is to reach the irreducible gist of a legal notion: International Public Law, Private International Law, Political Science as well as Sociology will be dealt with in this book. Two distinct functions (meanwhile complementary) will immediately be identified as the main components of the notion of “Border”: the dividing line, seen as impenetrable under International Public Law, that separates the territories of the States on one hand (so-called "international border"), and the permeable filter which regulates by way of discriminatory rules the movements (e.g. goods, persons, rights, values) between the states on the other hand (so-called “obstacle-border"). Due to limited time and space, however, this book will only focus on the first component, namely the international border. A study of its functions (i.e. what is the purpose for the impenetrability of the border?), will be followed by a study of its object (what is the scope of the impenetrability of the border?). The study of the functions will demonstrate that the international border, as a cause and a consequence of the principle of territorial exclusivity (i.e. monopoly of violence within the territorial borders), has strong ties with the concept of “Modern State”. Moreover, many fundamental notions generally attached to modern statute law (e.g. coercion, sovereignty, legal dualism) will be reconsidered in the light of this principle of impenetrability. Further, the analysis of the object of the international border will enable the author to eliminate certain jeopardizing uncertainties. Among others, the issue concerning the existence (or not) of a kinship between the “Border” and the territoriality of the law (including Power to Tax) will eventually be resolved: the territoriality principle, irrespective of its forms, is not an appearance (neither a component) of the international border. All activities undertaken by a state (i.e. legislative and executive powers), therefore, are not forced by law to be circumscribed to the territorial limits of that state. Only the core of the Imperium of a Modern State, that is to say the coercive power itself, seems to be subject to the impenetrability of the Border. In short, this book does not provide for (and is not aimed at) a general and all-comprehensive theory on “Borders”. Some of the major features of the latter are, however, clearly characterized herewith in order to provide the reader with another tool to scrutinize positive law

The diploma thesis deals with trademark protection in the system of Community and US law by using the scientific comparative method. The Community trademark is used as the comparatum and the federal trademark as the comparandum. The main goal of the thesis is the comparison of the EU and US perspective on the trademark as one of the subjects of industrial rights. To reach the set goal, the key aspects of the trademark protection are fully discussed in compared legal systems. The first part of the thesis represents the theoretical introduction into the field of trademarks. Here, the historical development is summarized, the evolvement of the single community protection together with principles of trademark protection in the USA are explained, completed by a summary of the sources of law in compared legal systems. In the main part of the thesis, the trademark in both legal systems is discussed, starting with the trademark definition according to both the Community and US law together with the key international treaties; followed by an explanation of different trademark types with an emphasis on non-traditional trademarks; right to trademark; Community and US trademark registration compared to the international registration; trademark use; and concluding with the rights the trademark holder possesses.

The principle of territoriality is a truism in intellectual property (IP) law. A premise underlying the principle is the right of each state to determine the extent to which IP rights exist and are protected within its own territory to fulfil its own economic, social and cultural policy goals. This is done by giving a right to prevent others from doing within the protected territory any of the acts that are exclusively reserved to the right holder under the IP statute that granted or protects the IP right. The principle of territoriality informs that IP rights granted or protected by a state are independent from those granted or protected by other states, and that the rights conferred under each state’s IP law are limited to the territory of that state. As the principle of territoriality neatly allocated jurisdiction among states on a territorial basis, it purportedly obviated the need for private international law. Each state exercised jurisdiction over the infringement of its own rights and applied its own domestic IP law, which served the interests of the states and of the parties. With the increase in the protection and exploitation of IP rights across national borders, infringements do not remain within hermetically sealed national territories. Acts taken in one state can have effects in other states and impair the policies that the rights were designed to fulfil. This raises questions concerning the territorial scope of application of the domestic IP law, that is, whether it is interpreted with respect to a domestic tangible act, effects on a domestic policy goal or both. In addition, the transborder exploitation of IP rights raises questions of private international law with respect to whether states exercise jurisdiction and apply national law to disputes concerning infringements of their domestic rights or whether states exercise jurisdiction and apply national law to disputes arising from acts committed in their territories (or both). These determinations may depend on different factors such as the different interests taken into consideration (e.g. state or party interests), the different legal traditions upon which the legal systems are based and the characteristics and functions of the IP rights themselves. This dissertation compares the interpretation and operation of the principle of territoriality of IP law in the private law resolution of transborder IP infringement disputes in the legal systems of the European Union and the United States, two distinctly different legal systems that have significant trade and investment relations with each other. The comparison shows that while the systems are functionally similar, the principle of territoriality is interpreted and operates somewhat differently in the two legal systems.

Avec le développement de la criminalité et de la délinquance internationale, de nombreuses infractions se réalisent partiellement ou totalement hors du territoire de la République. Afin de soumettre ces infractions comportant un élément d’extranéité au droit pénal français, le législateur et les juridictions internes tentent de ramener ces dernières sur le territoire de la République en établissant un lien entre le territoire national et l’infraction transnationale. A défaut pour le territoire d’être modifié, l’infraction est manipulée. Par conséquent, les règles de sa consommation vont se trouver altérées pour les besoins de sa localisation. La présente étude conduit à dégager une progression dans l’artifice qui consiste à retenir un critère de rattachement, soit appartenant à l’élément matériel de l’infraction mais ne pouvant pas être pris en compte, soit n’appartenant pas à l’élément matériel de l’infraction, et donc ne devant pas être pris en compte
With the constant increase of international felony and criminality, more and more offences take place partially or totally out of France. In order to submit theses offences with a foreign element to the French criminal law, the national lawmaker and criminal courts are trying to repatriate these breaches within the French territory by trying to establish a link between France and the offence incorporating the foreign element. Since the National boundaries cannot be modified therefore the offence is legally modified. Consequently, the rules regarding the accomplishment of the offence will be modified in order to establish its location. The present Thesis leads to enhance an artificial progression which consists in retaining a connection for the offence, either pertaining to the material element of the offence but which cannot be taken into account or, either not pertaining to the material element of the offence which should not be taken into account

Le principe de territorialité est, depuis longtemps, une notion-clé de la propriété intellectuelle, tant dans le droit français que dans les droits étrangers. C’est également une notion dont l’ambiguïté est cependant restée immense, qu’il s’agisse de son sens, de son fondement ou de ses conséquences. C’est dont l’objet de cette thèse que de cerner cet « illustre inconnu » et ce, à travers ses deux acceptions les plus importantes : le « principe de territorialité de conflit de lois » selon lequel le droit international de la propriété intellectuelle est régi par le droit du pays pour le territoire duquel sont revendiqués l’existence et l’effet d’un droit subjectif de propriété intellectuelle
The principle of territoriality, for a long time, a key-word of the intellectual property in French law as in the foreign laws. However, it is also o nation whose ambiguity is still huge regarding its meaning, its ground or its consequences. It is therefore the object of this thesis to understand this principle through two of its most important meanings l the “principle of territoriality of limitation” according to which a right exists and is effective only on the territory covered by the legal order which has crated it, and the “principle of territoriality of conflit of laws” according to which the international private law of the intellectual property is governed by the law of the country for which territory the existence and the effect of a right of intellectual property are claimed
Das Territorialitäsprinzig ist seit langer Zeit ein Schlüsselbegriff für das Recht des geistigen Eigentums, im französischen Recht ebenso wie in den ausländischen Rechtsordnungen. Sein Inhalt, seine Begründung oder seine Wirkungen sind jedoch immer vieldeutig geblieben. Es ist also Gengenstand dieser Dissertation, dieses schwierig zu fassende Prinzip über seine zwei wichtigsten Ausprägungen näher zu untersuche : das “Territorialitätsprinzig der Beschränkung”, nach dem ein subjektives Recht raümlich nur innerhalb dem Territorium dur Rechtsordnung besteht und wirkt, die dieses subjektive Recht geschaffen hat, und das “Territorialitätsprinzig des Kollisionsrechts”, welches besagt daB das Recht jeweils desjenigen Landes anzuwenden ist, für dessen Gebiet die Existenz und di Wirkung eines subjektiven Immaterialgüterrechts in Anspruch genommen sind
Le principe de territorialité est, depuis longtemps, une notion-clé de la propriété intellectuelle, tant dans le droit français que dans les droits étrangers. C’est également une notion dont l'ambiguïté est cependant restée immense, qu'il s'agisse de son sens, de son fondement ou de ses conséquences. C'est donc l'objet de cette thèse que de cerner cet "illustre inconnu" et ce, à travers ses deux acceptions les plus importantes : le "principe de territorialité de limitation" selon lequel un droit subjectif n'a d'existence et d'effet géographiquement que sur le territoire couvert par l'ordre juridique qui l'a créé, et le "principe de territorialité de conflit de lois" selon lequel le droit international de la propriété intellectuelle est régi par le droit du pays pour le territoire duquel sont revendiqués l'existence et l'effet d'un droit subjectif de propriété intellectuelle

O objeto da pesquisa é o critério espacial da regra-matriz de incidência tributária. A pesquisa tem início nos enunciados do texto constitucional para avaliar se existem critérios espaciais constitucionais. Avançando no ciclo de positivação da norma jurídica, o estudo analisa o papel da lei complementar na função de dispor sobre conflitos de competência e suas possíveis relações com a determinação do critério espacial. Por fim, o estudo analisa o critério espacial na estrutura normativa da regra-matriz de incidência tributária.
The object of the research is the spatial criterion of matrix rule of tax incidence. The research starts in the text of Constitution to examine whether there are constitucional spatial criteria. Advancing in the positivization cycle of the legal norm, the study examines the role of complementary law in the function of dispose about conflicts of jurisdiction and possible relationships with determining the spatial criterion. Finally, the study analyzes the spatial criterion in the structure of the matrix rule of tax incidence.

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This study's purpose is the spatial criterion of the matrix-norm of tax incidence. Investigates it from an hermeneutic-analytical point of view, departing from the understanding of how spatial categories help humans in understanding the objects of experience, in order to isolate and transpose these categories to the study of law, testing them with the established theory of place of crime and conducting the analysis results for the formulation of a theory of the place of tribute
Esta pesquisa tem por objeto o critério espacial da regra-matriz de incidência tributária. Investiga-o desde um ponto de vista analítico- hemenêutico para, a partir da compreensão de como as categorias espaciais ajudam o ser humano na compreensão dos objetos da experiência,transpor as categorias isolada são direito,testando-as com a já estabelecida teoria do lugar do crime e, conduzindo os resultados da análise para a formação de uma teoria do lugar do tributo

Ce travail vise à interroger les pratiques cynégétiques, en particulier en France et tout spécialement en Picardie, comme formes d’expression du rapport à la territorialité. Au-delà, c’est le statut du local qui se pose comme enjeu pour les populations les plus en marge des “bénéfices” de la globalisation. Après ces premiers regards parfois très microsociologiques et ethnographiques, la troisième approche visera à élargir l’angle pour décrire statistiquement parlant les chasseurs de la Somme, soit 5 240 répondants sur approximativement 28 000 pratiquants. Cette assise quantitative permettra de mesurer la concrétude de ces relations aux territoires locaux. En un mot, si au terme de ce travail la formule l’homme est un lieu pour l’homme nous apparaît excessive, force est néanmoins de constater la prégnance des liens à la territorialité hyper localisée, en complément presque logique de la mondialisation. En chassant, la majeure partie des pratiquants semble à la recherche d’un temps perdu. C’est en ce sens que l’étude de la pratique cynégétique intéresse les sciences sociales pour comprendre les transformations de la société française, via les relations entretenues à la nature. Parce que la chasse constitue une forme de fait social total, sa compréhension détient une capacité heuristique
This work aims to examine hunting practices, particularly in France and especially in Picardy, as forms of expression of the relationship with territorial identity. Beyond this it is the status of local geographical identity which is set up as a point of rivalry for those populations which are, more than others, excluded from the “benefits” of globalisation. After these first sometimes rather microsociological and ethnographic viewpoints, the third approach will aim to widen the angle in order to describe, strategically speaking, the hunters of the Somme : that is to say 5,240 people who replied to us out of approximately 28,000 practisers of the sport. This quantitive base will make it possible to measure the concreteness of the relations with the local territories. In a word, if at the end of thie work, the formula “Man is a place for man” appears excessive to us, we must nevertheless admit the significance of the links to over-localised territoriality, as an almost logical complement of globalisation. The greater part of the practisers of hunting seem to be searching for a lost period of time. It is in this sense that the study of hunting activities interests the social sciences in order to understand the transformation of French society, via relations maintained with nature. Because hunting constitutes a form of total social fact (Marcel Mauss), its understanding takes on a pioneering capacity

La question de la mobilité des sociétés met principalement en cause deux ensembles normatifs étatiques. Tout d’abord, la société mobile rencontre en permanence la question des conflits de lois. Ainsi, la mobilité implique le passage par la question fondamentale de la reconnaissance, la mise en jeu des règles de conflit sur la loi applicable aux sociétés ainsi que, plus généralement, la nécessité de consulter en permanence toutes les règles délimitant la compétence normative de l’Etat en matière sociétaire, telles les règles de conflit (jurisprudentielles ou du droit positif) ou les lois de police susceptibles d’être mises en œuvre dans une opération de restructuration transfrontalière d’un groupe de sociétés ou dans une opération transfrontalière d’acquisition ou de prise de contrôle. Dans un second lieu, la mobilité met inéluctablement en jeu les règles formant les systèmes nationaux de fiscalité internationale des sociétés, à savoir les règles fiscales nationales ou internationales (émanant du droit fiscal interne ou des traités d’évitement de double imposition) applicables à des situations relevant des activités internationales des sociétés. Ces deux aspects de la question de la mobilité intra-communautaire des sociétés ne peuvent pas être traités indépendamment l'une de l'autre, puisque les deux corps de règles (règles de conflit et règles de compétence fiscale) obéissent plus ou moins aux mêmes impératifs hiérarchiquement supérieurs de nature politique, économique et sociale et, par conséquent, ils sont interdépendants. En outre, l’étude de leur évolution historique durant la période qui s’étend du début du XIXe siècle jusqu’à nos jours au sein des ordres juridiques analysés (français, anglais, allemand, belge) démontre qu'ils se sont réciproquement influencées pour atteindre leur état actuel. Au travers d’une analyse interdisciplinaire, nous mettons l'accent, dans une première partie, sur les points d'intersection des deux corps de règles afin d'exposer la mécanique complexe de la mobilité internationale des sociétés et afin de mettre en exergue les considérations juridiques et fiscales qui dominent la matière. Cela dit, les systèmes nationaux de fiscalité internationale et les systèmes nationaux de droit international des sociétés sont aujourd’hui en pleine transformation sous l’emprise du droit communautaire qui se veut un méta-ordre d’organisation des comportements des gouvernements nationaux et des agents économiques selon et vers un modèle nouveau de régulation du marché de nature à rendre la création d’un Marché unique au sein de l’UE possible. Dans la seconde partie de notre étude, nous explorons l’impact du droit dérivé et de la jurisprudence de la CJUE -qui agissent conjointement afin d’atteindre cet objectif- sur ces deux ensembles normatifs nationaux, afin de conclure que toutes les évolutions récentes et anticipées en matière de mobilité des sociétés, tant au niveau national qu’au niveau communautaire, s’inscrivent dans le contexte de l’évolution globale du processus de transition des ordres juridiques nationaux d’un modèle capitaliste traditionnel de régulation du marché inspiré par les travaux de M. Keynes à un modèle néo-libéral, accélérée par la pression de la vague contemporaine de la mondialisation économique. En se situant dans une perspective historique et interdisciplinaire de la question de la mobilité intra-communautaire des sociétés, nous nous efforçons d’en cerner les tendances et les configurations ainsi que d’en faire l’état des lieux des progrès effectués depuis le XIXe siècle
Cross-border company mobility principally involves two main sets of State norms. Firstly, mobile companies continuously encounter conflict of laws questions. Therefore, mobility implies a necessary passage from the fundamental question of recognition of foreign companies, the application of conflict of laws rules determining the lex societatis and, more generally, the consultation of all the rules delineating the normative jurisdiction of the State in corporate matters, namely the conflict of laws rules (whether they stem from positive law or from judicial precedents) or the mandatory rules (lois de police) likely to be implemented in cross-border M&As, reorganizations and take-overs. Secondly, company mobility brings inevitably into play the national or international tax rules which constitute the national systems of international taxation of companies, namely tax rules emanating either from national tax legislation or from international treaties on avoidance of double taxation. These two aspects of the matter of company cross-border mobility shall not be examined separately, given that the formation of conflict of laws rules and tax jurisdiction rules that delineate a state’s tax jurisdiction depends on each State’s hierarchically superior imperatives of a political, economic and social nature, these two body of rules being, therefore, interdependent. The study of their historical evolution within the legal systems examined in our thesis (French, English, German and Belgian) from the early 19th century to date, demonstrates that their current state constitutes the result of their mutual influence. Through an interdisciplinary analysis, we emphasize, in the first part of our thesis, on the crossing points of these two sets of rules in order to explain the complex mechanics of cross-border mobility of companies and point out the legal and tax considerations that dominate the matter. We further explore their transformation by EU law which is intended as a meta-order aimed at orchestrating national government and economic agents’ behaviors according to and towards a new model of market regulation susceptible to the creation of a European single market. The second part of our thesis is dedicated to the study of the impact of secondary EU legislation and European Court of Justice jurisprudence –that act jointly to achieve the European single market objective- on the aforementioned bodies of national rules, that leads to the conclusion that the recent and anticipated developments on the mobility of companies within the EU both on national and European level, fall within the broader framework of the overall development of the transition process of national legal orders from a traditional capitalist model of market regulation inspired by the theories of M. Keynes towards a neo-liberal model which is accelerated by the pressure of the contemporary trend of economic globalization. Addressing the subject of cross-border mobility of companies within the EU both from a historical and an interdisciplinary perspective, we endeavor to identify trends and patterns and to assess the progress achieved since the early 19th century

Au sein de l’Église catholique, les critères d’appartenance à une Église sui iuris ont évolué dans l’histoire du droit canonique notamment à l’occasion de la promulgation encore récente du code latin de 1983 et du code des canons des Églises orientales de 1990. Le droit positif témoigne du souci du législateur de privilégier désormais l’objectivité du critère, sans empêcher qu’interviennent des éléments d’appréciation liés à la volonté des personnes qui souhaitent changer de rite par exemple à l’occasion de leur mariage. La loi et la praxis du Saint Siège manifestent cette recherche difficile d’un équilibre entre un déterminisme objectif de l’appartenance rituelle et une liberté subjective de choisir son rite ou d’en changer. Mais, les mutations sociales et structurelles ecclésiales récentes, caractérisées par la multiplication de structures ecclésiastiques à caractère personnel dans le monde latin, qui font droit à la volonté subjective des fidèles et l’augmentation importante du nombre des catholiques orientaux en diaspora, conduisent à s’interroger sur la pertinence de privilégier le critère territorial par rapport au critère personnel des structures ecclésiales orientales. Sauf à les condamner à la marginalité, voire à la disparition, il convient désormais de réfléchir sur le lien institutionnel qui unit les Églises de droit propre à leurs fidèles. Le poids de l’histoire, celui des relations avec les autres Églises orientales orthodoxes et enfin celui de la tradition canonique doivent être à la fois intégrés et dépassés pour ne pas enfermer les Églises orientales catholiques dans une logique mortifère
Within the Catholic Church, the criteria for belonging to a sui iuris Church have evolved throughout the history of Canon Law, particularly after the fairly recent promulgation of the Latin Code in 1983 and of the Code of the Canons of the Eastern Churches in 1990. Positive Law is proof of the care the legislator now takes to give priority to the objectivity of the criteria, whilst not preventing other elements to be taken into account, such as the desire of people who wish to change the rite, for example in the case of their marriage. Holy See law and Praxis are a witness to this difficult search for a balance between an objective determinism concerning adherence to the ritual and a subjective freedom to choose one’s rite or to modify it. However, society and Church structures have changed in recent years, changes which are characterized by the multiplication of ecclesiastical structures with a personal character in the Latin world, giving the Faithful the right to have their own personal wishes; and a growing number of Eastern Church members in Diaspora. This has led us to reconsider whether it is now at all pertinent to favour territorial criteria as opposed to personal ones in Eastern Church structures. Unless we wish to condemn them to a marginal position or even to disappear altogether, we must now reflect carefully on the institutional link between the Sui Iuris Churches and their Faithful. The weight of History, of the link with the other Eastern Orthodox Churches, and of the tradition of Canon Law must be simultaneously integrated and transcended if Eastern Catholic Churches are not to be trapped within a death-inducing logic

The aim of the present thesis is to examine an impact of reproductive and recording technique and of the global network of the Internet on the institute of collective management of copyright and related rights which forms traditional part of the system of copyright law. Firstly, the thesis embeds an issue of the institute of collective management into the appropriate legal framework and historical context. The delimitation of collective management's purpose follows; an emphasis is placed on the position of the collective manager of copyright as an intermediary between the competing interests of the right holders and interests of users. It is explained that the change of manners of communication of the work to the public from "point-to-mass" to "point-to-point" tends to weaken such position. The real and legal monopoly of collective management is scrutinized and conclusions of academics drawn from the coexistence of copyright management companies on the market in the United States are contrasted in the following part of the thesis. The issue with licenses is addressed. The collision between the potential ubiquity of works made available on the Internet and the principle of territoriality (lex loci protectionis) is described and, simultaneously, legal issues connected with functioning of the system...

1 Abstract Trademarks and their territorial limits The purpose of my thesis is to analyze the ways that are used for overcoming territorial limits of trademarks, to point out the pros and cons of these methods. Likewise, I'd like to point out the fact that the various systems of trademarks - national and international systems and system of Community trade mark are interconnected and they complete each other. Therefore, it is necessary to focus on the quality of national legislation, to match the European Union standards and international standards, as well. I chose this topic, because the issue of trademarks is in my opinion very interesting, I like the fact that they can connect designers and businessmen, I am fascinated by their overlap into the art sphere, too. The topic of marks is very broad and quite specific, for understandable reasons it cannot be given so much time within the subjects taught at the Faculty. Also this was one of the reasons I chose this topic. My work is divided into six major thematic units, together there are 25 chapters, some of them are further divided into subchapters and sections. In the first part, which corresponds to the first and the second chapter, I try to out the trademarks as an institution in a wider context of intellectual property rights and industrial property...