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<i>The Future of the Music Business 4th Edition,</i> by Steve Gordon.

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Analyzing Second Circuit's Ruling on Internships

Thomas E. Chase

This summer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided <i>Glatt v. Fox Searchlight Pictures,</i> an important decision concerning whether Fox's unpaid interns were "employees" under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Labor Law and, therefore, entitled to recover minimum wage, plus time-and-a-half for overtime, for the periods they worked at Fox.

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Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

Consumer Suit Over Beats Music App Sent to Arbitration<br>No Right of Publicity Claim for Company, But Individual with Same Name as Company Can Proceed<br>"Procure Employment" Clause in California Talent Agencies Act Survives "Vagueness" Challenge

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New Report Offers Statistics On Copyright Cases

Lisa Shuchman

Lex Machina, a legal analytics company that grew out of a project run by Stanford University's law school and its computer science department, has published a 37-page "copyright litigation report" developed from litigation data and court decisions covering thousands of copyright cases filed in U.S. district courts over the past five years. The report analyzes key filings, findings, judgment types, decisions, resolutions, damages and other data.

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Ashley Madison Data Breach Sparks Suits

Ross Todd

Infidelity website AshleyMadison.com and its parent company Avid Life Media Inc. have been hit with a pair of class actions in Los Angeles federal court stemming from the site's recent data breach.

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Federal Circuit Expands Liability For Divided Patent Infringement

Elizabeth B. Hagan & David K. Tellekson

Having been urged to do so by the Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit recently expanded liability under 35 U.S.C. '271(a) for direct infringement of a method patent involving more than one actor (divided infringement).

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Uniting Legal, IT and Records Management

Doug Yarabinetz

When organizations discuss ESI, it almost always revolves around three core groups: legal and/or compliance; records management; and, of course, IT. Despite the fact that they all are responsible for important business functions associated with this data, they are seldom on the same page.

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Archiving's Role Within e-Discovery 2.0 and What's Expected for the Future

Mike Pagani

When responding to e-discovery events such as audits or potential litigation, the cost of persisting with older, traditional methods for key parts of the process can nearly bankrupt a company. Modern archiving technologies that consolidate and proactively store content in a single "search-ready" repository are now playing a crucial role within next generation 2.0 e-discovery processes.

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Gray Plant Mooty Fast-Tracks Investigations with Recommind's Technology

Brian Dillon

The practice of law is constantly evolving, thanks to emerging technologies on which businesses now rely. Fortunately, technology to support the legal profession has stepped up to this challenge, bringing automation to tedious processes.

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First-Amendment Rights of Solicitors

Stephanie J. Kim

A California Court of Appeal recently affirmed the right of a shopping center owner to limit the First Amendment rights of citizens from being exercised near store entrances.

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