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<b><i>Online Exclusive</b></i>Second Circuit Shelves Freelancers' Pact With Publishers and Databases
A federal appellate court has thrown out a class action settlement between freelance writers and online publishers and databases that archived the writers' work without pay, saying that the pact approved by the lower court did not represent the interests of all class members.
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<B><I>BREAKING NEWS:</b></i> <b>HP Acquires Autonomy for $10B
Hewlett-Packard made its most aggressive move yet to transform itself into a modern business provider by acquiring e-discovery and document management giant Autonomy for $10.3 billion.
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Keyword Advertising and Trademark Infringement Update
This article reviews keyword advertising generally and discusses recent developments in keyword litigation.
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How Joint Venture Was Developed for Touring Bands
This year, three bands boarded a vintage train for a tour through the American Southwest. The bands formed a joint venture to manage their Railroad Revival Tour and control revenues and related intellectual property, including a documentary DVD. <b>Matthew V. Wilson</b>, an associate at Atlanta, GA's Arnall Golden Gregory who structured the deal, describes the arrangement in the following interview.
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Analysis of Decision By Supreme Court on Video Games
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and his teammates recently mowed down California's ban on violent video games with fully loaded First Amendment precedents and barbed retorts to opposing arguments. In doing so, the U.S. Supreme Court reinforced a fundamental point: First Amendment protections do not depend on the medium of communication. Thus, video games are protected speech, and restrictions based on their content will be subject to strict scrutiny.
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State Legislatures Consider UCC Article 9 Amendments
In early 2009 we reported about the formation by the Uniform Law Commission and the American Law Institute of a drafting committee to consider the first comprehensive set of changes to Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code since the amendments approved in July 1998. Given that approximately six months have elapsed since the launch of the legislative approval process for the 2010 amendments, we thought it an opportune time to review the progress of adoption of these amendments.
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The Case of the Broken Checklist
Intellectual property rights, such as a domain name, and trademarks and copyrights, can far outweigh an e-commerce enterprise's (and other types of businesses') tangible assets in value — and must be covered in the checklists that loan officers and outside counsel review to complete loan documentation.
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Protecting IP Rights in a New gTLD World
The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the international body governing Internet naming and addressing practices, approved in June a plan that allows for a virtually unlimited number of new generic top-level domains (new gTLDs), including new non-English, character-set international domain names. Companies concerned with protecting intellectual property rights have two ways to address the issue — to the right of the dot and to the left of the dot.
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The New Mandatory Self-Disclosure Rule in New Hampshire's Family Division
The new Family Division Rule 1.25-A (Rule) will bring significant changes to the practice of family law in New Hampshire. It requires parties to produce financial information shortly after the commencement of a family court proceeding, without waiting for discovery requests to be propounded.
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