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Social Gaming Is Battleground over ‘Fast Following’
Entertainment Law & Finance
Litigation in the social gaming sector features young companies vying for position in a lucrative and fast-growing market where copycat games and employee poaching are commonplace. Social gaming is expected to contribute more than $800 million this year to the $1.6 billion virtual goods market. Legal questions continue to surround the sector’s ubiquitous practice of "fast following" — quickly copying competitors’ successful gaming concepts.

Stop in the Name of — the IP Police?
e-Commerce Law & Strategy
When it comes to infringement of intellectual property, there are no "IP police" hiding in the obscure nooks and crannies of cyberspace to chase down those who misuse property online. Instead, the e-commerce firm itself often must become its own IP cop, when it discovers — as it inevitably will in the online free-for-all — that its marks, copyrighted content or knockoffs of its unique products appear on the Web site or in the e-catalog of a competitor.

Technology Is a Double-Edged Sword In the Courtroom
Medical Malpractice Law & Strategy
While it can enhance a trial presentation, not every trial will benefit from the use of technology, and in many instances it can be an expensive hindrance rather than an asset. It may be wise to use technology judiciously.

The Place to Network: The Art and Practice of Blogging
Marketing the Law Firm
Blogs have proven to be an effective tactic to establish subject matter expertise, and the Internet search engines can help reach a target audience on a scale that other networking tactics, and traditional publishing venues, may not.

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Navigating the Changing Technological Landscape
In City of Ontario v. Quon, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a government employer’s search of an employee’s communications on an employer-issued pager was reasonable under the circumstances and, therefore, did not violate the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. The Court’s narrowly tailored decision underscores that cases in the area of employee privacy will continue to be highly fact-sensitive.

Crowdsourcing the Law
The Internet’s completely over, the musician once-again known as Prince declared this summer. If so, I am at a loss to explain the ongoing emergence of innovative Web sites such as Spindle Law, a new site that is reconfiguring the traditional legal treatise to make it better fit a "Web 2.0" world.

The Brave New World Of e-Workplace Privacy Policies
Part One of this article, last month, examined the liability involved with social media and e-mail use. Part Two discusses implementing compliant and defensible workplace policies.

Lessons from Twitter’s Settlement with the FTC
The announcement that social-networking phenomenon Twitter has agreed to settle FTC charges that it had engaged in inadequate privacy and information security practices illustrates some simple mistakes that social media and other online companies can make. If the consent decree is approved, Twitter will have to live with the oversight that accompanies an FTC consent decree for 20 years (or more than four times the length of time that the company has existed).

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