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New FTC Guidelines for Social Media Influencers

Brad Kutner

Internet celebrities with big social-media followings are often approached for advertising and marketing deals, and the money flowing from these third-party arrangements can be in the millions. But the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) moved to update the guidelines for those who profit from such arrangements, and lawyers are saying the new rules involve big but unsurprising changes.

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Fresh Filings

Entertainment Law & Finance Staff

Notable court filings in entertainment law.

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Players On the Move

Entertainment Law & Finance Staff

A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.

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Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

Dispute Over Jay Livingston Songwriter Contracts Sent to Arbitration MeTV Viewers Aren't "Subscribers" Under Video Privacy Protection Act TV Series Production Contract Is Assignable In Bankruptcy

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UPCOMING EVENT

ELF Staff

31st Cutting Edge Entertainment Law Seminar. New Orleans, Aug. 24-26, 2023

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National Cybersecurity Strategy: Potential Impacts to Consider

Daron Hartvigsen

What are the impacts to civil society and government if the plan works? We should consider that "collecting intelligence, imposing economic costs, enforcing the law, and, conducting disruptive actions" will work by some measure, and if so, the impacts to the cybersecurity ecosystem could be profound.

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How Law Firms Can Avoid A Summer of Cyberattack Threats

Scott Kramer

Summer at law firms creates an attack surface of which hackers love to take advantage. Legal and support staff rotate through vacations and time off, new crops of interns unfamiliar with tech processes enter the fold, and the remaining employees are often burned out and too distracted to notice the critical signs of an impending cyberattack.

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New York City's Guaranty Law Invalidated

Deborah E. Riegel

New York's Guaranty Law was challenged as unconstitutionally restricting a plaintiff's contractual rights The District Court held the law to be constitutional because it advanced a significant and legitimate public purpose through reasonable and appropriate means.

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One Overlooked Element of Executive Safety: Data Privacy

Dimitri Shelest

Executives have access to some of the company's most sensitive information, and they're increasingly being targeted by hackers looking to steal company secrets or to perpetrate cybercrimes.

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Distressed Investors Should Take Advantage of the Upcoming Plethora of Defaulted CRE Loans Image

Distressed Investors Should Take Advantage of the Upcoming Plethora of Defaulted CRE Loans

Joseph J. Ori

What is different about this distressed cycle is that most of the lenders are not foreclosing and taking title to the CRE assets, managing, and leasing them for a few months and then selling the properties. They are more likely to sell the note/mortgage rather than foreclose on the property. This presents a unique and interesting opportunity for astute distressed investors, who are experienced in acquiring mortgage notes secured by commercial property and in the arduous foreclosure and bankruptcy process,

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