Do You Know Who the Hénokiens Are?
When we say “family business,” what comes to mind first? Perhaps a local bakery, a restaurant across the street, or a craft shop? But what if I told you that there are family companies that…
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Family Governance and Corporate Governance in Family Businesses: Global Practice and Serbian Perspective
When a family and a business share the same decision-making area, the boundaries between emotions and business processes often become unclear. In legal practice in Belgrade, I encounter family companies daily that struggle with issues…
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Two Laws, Two Paths – Serbia’s New Digital Reality (DSA and Information Security Law)
Digital regulation in Serbia is entering a new phase. In addition to the expected alignment with the EU Digital Services Act (DSA), a new Information Security Law came into effect on October 31, 2025. These regulations are changing…
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How GDPR and the EU AI Act Impact M&A Transactions in the IT Sector
GDPR and the new EU AI Act today directly impact the valuation of IT companies and the flow of M&A transactions. For Serbian IT firms targeting the EU market, the key question is whether the code, database, and…
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Founders’ Agreement: How Important Is It and Why Do Early Founder Deals Become the Most Expensive Mistakes Later?
The beginning of every startup is romantic. Two or three founders, a lot of enthusiasm, a garage (or a coworking space), and a sentence that will later cost you millions: “We’ll sort out the details…
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This Is the Largest Copyright vs. Ai Settlement in History: How Anthropic Paid 1.5 Billion Dollars for Pirated Books
In September 2025, a precedent occurred that permanently changed the relationship between artificial intelligence and copyright. AI company Anthropic – creator of the advanced language model Claude – reached a settlement of 1.5 billion dollars…
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New Standards for AI and SaaS Contracts
What happens when your “smart” SaaS system makes a decision that nobody in the company understands, and the client sends you an email asking: “So who is responsible now – you, us, or the algorithm?”…
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Protection of trade secrets vs. intellectual property protection
Every company, regardless of its size or level of technological progress, possesses important information that is essential to its business and competitive position in the market. Although the main associations of a trade secret are…
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R&D and IP Box – how the law encourage innovation?
Encouraging innovation and investing in research and development in order to improve competitiveness on the market have become the subject of numerous tax incentives in the Republic of Serbia. Tax incentives mainly refer to persons…
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Legal Trends in the Gaming Industry
The gaming industry, i.e. the video game industry, is one of the fastest-growing industries both globally and locally. However, to be able to play WoW or Resident Evil or any other video game for that…
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Freelancers – what you need to know?
If you want the freedom to independently organize your work, time and place of work, and you do not want or it is not profitable for you to establish your company or register as an…
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Does privacy have a price?
It might seem like a redundant question, and the answer NO as obvious, but it turns out it is not that simple. How did we even get to this question? Meta’s Attempts to „Bypass“ GDPR …
