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Online Accessibility, SEO and Digital Marketing Strategy
How can you make your user experience the best it can be for all potential clients, and lead with empathy and equity as you demonstrate your knowledge? That's where your law firm's SEO strategy comes into play.
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Components of Legal Work On NFTs
With a significant amount of NFT activity arising from the entertainment and sports industries comes an inevitable need for legal services. But taking advantage of this economic growth is no simple matter for entertainment, media and sports lawyers. It requires an understanding not just of NFT transactions, but also of data security, intellectual property, public policy, and a whole raft of regulatory and compliance issues.
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Commentary: How the Music Industry Can Learn from Cable When It Comes to ISPs and Infringement
In the last two decades, the music industry and, more specifically, songwriters, producers and recording artists have been losing the value of their efforts to online piracy. Perhaps a business-to-business solution can be found between the music industry and cable providers.
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Opportunities, Risks and Strategies In the Metaverse
While it is still unknown how the metaverse will take shape lawyers advising brands should familiarize themselves with the opportunities it presents, the risks involved, and strategies to consider for enhancing and protecting a client's brand.
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The Legal Difficulties of Blockchain Domain Names
Blockchain domain names, a new set of domain names, are ripe for cryptocurrency legal abuse and generally not susceptible to traditional legal amelioration. A combination of legal, business and technological approaches is best used to address blockchain domain name legal difficulties.
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First Dark Web Insider Trading Case Shows Government Active In Policing Tech
In a first of its kind prosecution, the Southern District of New York brought an insider trading case against defendant for selling inside information on the Dark Web. The SEC also brought a civil regulatory action against the defendant for the same conduct. In a rare move, however, SDNY and SEC charged this same conduct under different insider trading statutes. This difference underscores the legal complexities involved when the origin of inside information in the digital world is unknown.
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Keep Terms of Service and Privacy Notices Separate
This article examines why terms of service and privacy notices should work in conjunction with one another, but also why it is not advisable to incorporate privacy notices into online terms of service.
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Comic Legends' Estates Say Pandora Streamed Routines Without License
In dual lawsuits, the estates of Robin Williams and George Carlin accuse Pandora Media of willfully infringing the legendary comedians' registered copyrights in their "spoken word compositions" — their standup routines — by streaming the sound recordings that embody those routines without a license to use these works.
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Legal Tech: Are Websites A Forgotten Source of Evidence?
It's fascinating how quickly the industry has shifted from the days when e-discovery teams would spend weeks digitalizing and coding vellum, microfiche and paper documents to where we are today with dynamic and varied processes to deal with a plethora of electronic sources. Among these are websites, which can provide deep insights in discovery, but have been largely forgotten as a source of evidence.
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Brands In the Metaverse: Opportunities, Risks and Strategies
While it is still unknown how the metaverse will take shape, lawyers advising brands should familiarize themselves with the opportunities it presents, the risks involved, and strategies to consider for enhancing and protecting a client's brand.
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