SABAM responded that they would make an exception for 2008 and that people could publish private photographs for one year only on condition they were for non-commercial purposes.

Intellectual property rights in Belgium are managed by SABAM.

Intellectual property rights in Belgium are managed by SABAM.

For example SABAM issued a demand that a United States website remove all images of them from its pages.

At the same time, he was given the Gold Medal of Brussels from the Tourist Information Bureau, and won a prize from the Société d ’ Auteurs Belge / Belgische Auteurs Maatschappij ( SABAM ).

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

** The first revenue flight for Belgium's SABENA Airlines takes place.

Some older constitutions ( for example, Australia's 1900 text, and Belgium's 1830 text ) do not mention the office of Prime minister at all, the office becoming a de facto reality without formal constitutional status.

The phase-out law calls for each of Belgium's seven reactors to close after 40 years of operation with no new reactors built subsequently.

Having been outbid by Belgium's flag carrier Sabena for the Libyan oil industry support flight contract that year, Silver City's losses became unsustainable.

Skirmishes continued for eight years, but in 1839, the two countries signed the Treaty of London establishing Belgium's independence.

Belgium's postwar customs union with the Netherlands and Luxembourg paved the way for the formation of the European Community ( precursor to the EU ), of which Belgium was a founding member.

The arrest warrant case of 2002 was caused by the application of Belgium's so called genocide law, providing for universal jurisdiction over the gravest international crimes.

It stands on the bank of the river Schelde opposite the confluence of the eponymous Rupel, and is famed for its sundials as well as having what is probably Belgium's only tidemill.

In Europe, for example Belgium's Royal Military Academy, military science remains an academic discipline, and is studied alongside Social Sciences, including such subjects as Humanitarian law.

The 1839 Treaty of London had committed Britain to guard Belgium's neutrality in the event of invasion, and talks with France since 1905 – kept secret even from most members of the Cabinet – had set up the mechanism for an expeditionary force to cooperate militarily with France.

A " no-action " motion, presented by the Sudanese Representative to counter Belgium's request for a vote, passed with nine Committee members voting in favour ( Burundi, China, Morocco, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Senegal, Sudan and Venezuela ), seven voting against ( Belgium, Bulgaria, India, Israel, Turkey, Peru and United States ), with Kyrgyzstan abstaining and Mozambique and Cuba not present.

A number of shortcomings in the Dutroux investigation caused widespread discontent in Belgium with the country's criminal justice system, and the ensuing scandal was one of the reasons for the reorganisation of Belgium's law enforcement agencies.

The city is in the centre of Belgium's fruit producing region, Haspengouw ( Hesbaye ), and is renowned for its pears, apples ( Jonagold ), and sweet cherries.

In 1939 a mission from Belgium's Aéronautique Militaire purchased 40 CR. 42s, for a total price of 40 millions francs.

Henri Pirenne's reputation today rests on three contributions to European history: for what has become known as the Pirenne Thesis, concerning origins of the Middle Ages in reactive state formation and shifts in trade ; for a distinctive view of Belgium's medieval history ; and for his model of the development of the medieval city.

Following the Menin Gate Memorial opening in 1927, the citizens of Ypres wanted to express their gratitude towards those who had given their lives for Belgium's freedom.

This changed as a result of King Leopold of Belgium's desire for glory.

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Although the British media played up the " Rape of Belgium ", in reality, the German invasion led to Britain's decision to go to war for reasons that were felt by the British government to be more significant: it was considered inconceivable that Germany, with her expanding navy, should be allowed to control Belgium's sea ports.

Born in Belgium to Audrey Dorothy Louise Townshend, daughter of Major General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, and Belgian Count Baudouin de Borchgrave d ’ Altena, head of Belgium's military intelligence for the government-in-exile during World War II, Arnaud de Borchgrave was educated in Belgium, Britain and the United States.

At the time it was not meant as anti-Belgian ( as it often came to be seen by Flemish separatists and their Belgicist opponents ), for the ' enemy ' it refers to is Belgium's southwestern neighbour France, as in the 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs.

This was unprecedented ; although Baudoin was nominally Belgium's chief executive, Royal Assent has long been a formality ( as is the case in most constitutional and popular monarchies ).

Due to Belgium's often-complicated politics, restructuring has led to decisions seen by some as illogical, such as the decision to mount the ( very uncommon ) CMI 90 mm cannon on the Piranha 3 ( munition is very scarce and only made by a handful of manufacturers ; it will probably be supplied by Mécar ).

But since it has a significant German speaking minority, it is one of Belgium's municipalities with language facilities ( or " municipalities with facilities ").

Pirenne's history remains crucial to the understanding of Belgium's past, but his notion of a continuity of Belgian civilization forming the basis of political unity has lost favor.

It has educated a large part of Belgium's elite and is still considered, with its Dutch-speaking sister, as a centre of excellence in many fields.

Belgium's next best placing has been second which it has achieved twice at the 1978 and 2003 contests.

According to Philippe Suinen, it is an exception among federal States, and, as pointed out recently by Michel Quévit, a quasi-State: " From 1831, the year of Belgium's independence, until the federalization of the country in 1970, Wallonia has increasingly asserted itself as a region in its own right .".

Roman Catholicism has traditionally been Belgium's majority religion ; being especially strong in Flanders.

Knokke also has one of Belgium's ten casinos with art by Keith Haring, Rene Magritte and Paul Delvaux.

The festival started in 1974 as a one-day event with performances from Banzai and Kandahar, but over the years it has evolved to become Belgium's largest music festival.

Roman Catholicism has traditionally been Belgium's majority religion with approximately 75 % of the Belgians declaring themselves to be Catholics.

GIS has very good relations with many top class CT units in the world, amongst these are Great Britain's 22nd SAS, Spain's GEO and UEI, France's GIGN, Germany's GSG 9 and SEK, Belgium's ESI, Austria's GEK and the Netherlands's DSI.

Albert II of Belgium | Albert II, King of the Belgians inspecting Belgian Armed Forces | troops on Belgium's national day in 2011.

Ringwood Brewery founder, Peter Austin, is thought to be an influence on Britain's craft brewery rebirth in much the same way that Fritz Maytag of San Francisco's Anchor Brewing Company and Pierre Celis of Belgium's Hoegaarden Brewery were to their countries.

In recent years, an unofficial short version of the anthem is sung during Belgian National Day on July 21 yearly, combining the words of the anthem in all three of Belgium's official languages, similar to the bilingual version of O Canada.

It was inaugurated on 23 August 1930 ( days after Belgium's 100th anniversary ) as Jubilee Stadium (, ).

It is this family name which is used on the identity cards and in all official documents by Belgium's royalty ( e. g. marriage licenses ).

However, thanks to Belgium's high personal savings rate, the Belgian Government financed the deficit from mainly domestic savings, minimizing the deleterious effects on the overall economy.

Among the companies using Knight's technology were Avions Voisin, Daimler ( 1909 – 1930s ) including their V12 Double Six, Panhard ( 1911 – 39 ), Mercedes ( 1909 – 24 ), Willys ( as the Willys-Knight, plus the associated Falcon-Knight ), Stearns, Mors, Peugeot, and Belgium's Minerva company that was forced to stop its sleeve-valve line of engines as a result of the limitations imposed on them by the winners of WWII, some thirty companies in all.

It focuses mainly on the Congo, Belgium's former colony.

Postwar, Continental bodies gained popularity, at least in Britain, as Belgium's D ' Ieteren Fréres became most associated with the company: their landaulette, on a chassis, was priced in Britain at ₤ 900, between Napier and Rolls-Royce.

The Ghislenghien industrial park near Ath was the scene of one of Belgium's worst ever industrial disasters on July 30, 2004.

The festival starts on the Saturday before July 21 ( Belgium's national holiday ) and lasts ten days.

Only a week after Liège's fall, Ludendorff, then engaged in the assault on Belgium's second great fortress at Namur, was urgently requested by the Kaiser to serve as Chief of Staff of the Eighth Army on the Eastern Front.

However, on April 18, another British bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland ( RBS ) contacted ABN AMRO to propose a deal in which a consortium of banks, including RBS, Belgium's Fortis, and Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano ( now Banco Santander ) would jointly bid for ABN AMRO and thereafter break up the different divisions of the company between them.

Since about 1860, the Belgian defence doctrine was centered on a retreat to Antwerp to hold off any aggressor until the European powers guaranteeing Belgium's neutrality would be able to intervene.

Yves Leterme ( who applauded Wilders's former scorn towards the Greater Dutch and Flemish Movement, as a defender of Belgium's integrity ), replied on 13 June 2008, in the Times, saying that a merger between Belgium and the Netherlands was ' science fiction ' and that Wilders was thinking simplistically about the Belgian crisis.

The Belgian tabloids also developed another conspiracy theory based on one of Belgium's most famous urban legends, the so-called pink ballets (" roze balletten " in Dutch ).

The Damesme building continued to serve for more than two decades as Belgium's principal theatre and opera house until it burnt to the ground on 21 January 1855 leaving only the outside walls and portico.

During this period, Parkin performed guest vocals for several other projects, including Belgium's Aïboforcen and Implant, and Mexico's Isis Signum, some of which she would return to later on, such as the late 2011 release of two songs with Aïboforcen.

Belgium's political uncertainty further deepened when Yves Leterme was hospitalised on 14 February 2008.

The song was performed third on the night, following Belgium's Nicole & Hugo with " Baby, Baby " and preceding Germany's Gitte with " Junger Tag ".