Commercial Law

Two laws come into play in cases of employment discipline for medical marijuana use ' the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the law of the specific state where the employee works.

The requirements placed on corporate America as a result of increasingly labyrinthine consumer protection laws have created significant new potential liabilities, often in the form of statutorily mandated damages.

One of the most vexing economic issues in fashion and apparel licensing deals is the task of allocating the long-term value of a branded product launch.

Texas Bar 20th Annual Entertainment Law Institute
American Bar Association Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries Annual Meeting

Court Rulings on Royalty Calculations for Digital Downloads

In Georgia, the glamorous world of entertainment law has gotten a boost because of tax credits created by the 2008 Georgia Entertainment Industry Investment Act. The law provides tax credits of up to 30% for money spent on production and post-production work done here on films, TV shows, commercials, music videos and even video game development and animation. The law's economic impact has been huge.

2010 is the 20th anniversary of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that dealt with the copyright renewal-rights dilemma. The case centered on whether actor James Stewart and director Alfred Hitchcock could continue to exploit their classic-thriller movie Rear Window, which was based on the short story "It Had to Be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich.

As with domain names, social networking user names are often an extension of a person's or an organization's identity. Businesses, for example, use social networking identities to promote themselves as a source of goods and services. And the flip side of that coin is that abusive use of social networking user names allows a third party to benefit from the goodwill by-product endorsement. But here's the problem: Such abusive behavior constitutes intellectual property infringement.