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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i><br> Legislation to Block a 'Netflix' Tax Is Shelved Amid Opposition
A Southern California assemblyman on Monday shelved legislation that would have blocked cities from taxing streaming video services such as Netflix and Hulu.
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Got a Negative Online Review? First Things First: Turn Off Your Attorney
It happened. Some current or former client had the gall to write something less than flattering about you online. What do you do? The first thing to do, and this can be the hardest thing for attorneys, is to turn off your attorney. Feedback can be hard to take.
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Senate Votes to Repeal FCC Internet Privacy Rules
The FCC's move to stop Internet service providers from collecting customers' personal information without consent has itself been halted. The Senate voted 50-48 on March 24 to overturn the rules, with the House expected to follow suit.
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Got a Negative Online Review? First Things First: Turn Off Your Attorney
It happened. Some current or former client had the gall to write something less than flattering about you online. What do you do? The first thing to do, and this can be the hardest thing for attorneys, is to turn off your attorney. Feedback can be hard to take.
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Protecting Your Clients from Their Own Social Media
Postings of comments or photographs become part of the permanent record on the Internet. There is no such thing as deleting a post or erasing the past. Because of the potentially adverse consequences, trial lawyers are now duty bound to run a thorough social media search of their clients, adversaries, and witnesses in every case. To the extent an attorney fails to conduct such a search, not only will she be at a severe disadvantage in the case but her competence as a trial lawyer can be called into question.
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Back in the GDPR
Any company operating globally should protect its value through exposure containment under both privacy shield and the forthcoming GDPR.
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Streaming Pre-'72 Recordings Not Piracy Under Georgia Law
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that media companies streaming music recordings made prior to Feb. 15, 1972, over the Internet without paying royalties or licensing fees aren't violating the state's criminal record piracy law.
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<b><i>Legal Tech</b></i><br>Making Sense of New Data Types in the App Age
While the threat of "big data" — massive amounts of data inside an organization — has cast a shadow over IT and legal departments for several years, the real challenge can oftentimes be the variety. It's why we believe the real challenge is less about "big data" and more about "new data types" — that quickly defeat traditional collection and review tools and strategies.
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<b><i>Online Extra</b></i><br>Free Online Access to Georgia's Legal Code Violates Copyright, Judge Says
One day after a federal judge in Atlanta ruled that the state of Georgia may copyright its official legal code and pursue infringers, a California public records activist who had made Georgia's code available for free to the general public began work on an appeal.
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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i><br>TV Networks Win Another Battle on Streaming
In another blow for the web TV industry, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on March 21 ruled that internet-based streaming services cannot retransmit network broadcasters' content at steeply discounted licensing rates without their permission.
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