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FTC Issues over $12 Million In Redress Checks to Victims of '90 Credit Fraud
FTC Tells the House About ID-Theft Efforts
FTC Mission Statutes Involving Online Commerce
Firm Web Site Receives ABA Branding Accolade
Discovery Organization Launches Job Project

A Los Angeles judge, ruling on a case of first impression, recently found that the federal CAN-SPAM Act pre-empts a California law designed to curb false and misleading commercial e-mails.

No one enjoys clearing rights. Checking that you may use content (whether on your Web site, in a publication, or for a performance) and won't be sued over it takes time and effort. And, for e-commerce counsel clients, that means more money.

Technology has afforded increased productivity and improved accuracy in the medical industry. The single greatest inhibitor to taking advantage of technology in health care, however, is the requirement for an initial investment and, in the medical-records technology area, this investment can be significant.

With bona fides now suitably established, is it possible to actively leverage the USVI's fiber and bandwidth assets to deliver greater competitive and stakeholder advantage to the enterprise? Yes it is; an economic development program chartered in law by the USVI government, sanctioned under U.S. Treasury regulations and managed by the University of the Virgin Islands Research and Technology Park ("RTPark"), may be of particular interest to e-commerce and other knowledge-based businesses.

Entertainment Law in Review, July 30, Washington, DC.

Band Names/Federal Trademark Dilution Act
Digital Royalties Suit/Motion to Dismiss Denied
Personal Manager/No Personal Jurisdiction
Public Performance Right/Vicarious Liability

As the video game industry gathered recently in Los Angeles for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), there was a great deal for those in the business to be optimistic about. Last year, video game software unit sales increased 15% in the United States, according to market research companies. And one report released in May 2009 revealed that nearly two out of every three Americans played a video game of some kind within the past six months, compared to only about half of U.S. consumers who went to a movie over the same period. All this activity hasn't been lost on the lawyers whose practices are focused on the video game industry