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The DMCA Safe Harbor Provision Is Stronger Than Ever

Aneesh Mehta

Even as the economy continues to slowly recover from this recession, online sales are still booming, accounting for more than $200 billion over the past year. As the marketplace shifts from the sales counter to the desktop, counterfeiting and software piracy have also shifted to the virtual world. For copyright and trademark owners, this creates a constant stream of newly evolved infringing activities to monitor.

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Cooperatives & Condominiums

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The most important recent rulings.

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The Brave New World of e-Workplace Privacy Policies

Robert Brownstone

Embodying some of the aspects of Big Brother is not a new role for an employer. In the past 15 years, however, workplaces have become increasingly digitized as electronic information has come to dominate all aspects of modern life. Part One of this article examines the potential liability for employers involved with social media and e-mail use.

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Judicial Takings

sewart E. Sterk

Can a state court decision effect a judicial "taking" in violation of the federal constitution? The United States Supreme Court addressed that question this term, but did not furnish a definitive answer.

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Discounts on Closely Held Corporate Shares

Douglas A. Cooper & Matthew F. Didora

The Appellate Division, Second Department, has interpreted <i>Friedman,</i> discussed last month, in a more restrictive way than was suggested by the Court of Appeals. Is this interpretation the correct one?

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Supreme Court Says Ne Exeat Clause Must Be Enforced

Janice G. Inman

In May, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (Hague Converntion) trumps a custodial parent's right to move a child out of a country without the non-custodial parent's consent.

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