While obvious security threats like fast-spreading worms have a tendency to garner news headlines, other stealthy security risks threaten law firms and other businesses every day. An increasing amount of spyware and adware programs have the ability to facilitate the disclosure of business information and risk privacy, confidentiality, integrity, and system availability. Law firms ' like other corporations ' usually accumulate a vault of information that could cause serious problems if it were shared with the wrong contacts or, even worse, stolen. Spyware's evolution from simple cookies to a range of sophisticated user-tracking systems has left many businesses without the control over their proprietary data and
A recent survey by IT industry analysts IDC identified spyware as the fourth greatest threat to enterprise security.
- May 31, 2005Sarah Gordon
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York decided that a former associate in a law firm can continue to represent one-time Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Ed King in a fee dispute between King and the associate's former firm.
May 27, 2005ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York decided that incorporating several thumbnail reproductions of concert posters into the book "Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip" without a copyright license from the plaintiff archive constituted a fair use.
May 27, 2005ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Record Distribution/Promissory Estoppel
Record Production Deals/Breach of ContractMay 27, 2005ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Recently filed cases in entertainment law, straight from the steps of the Los Angeles Superior Court.
May 27, 2005ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Bequeathing an interest in a copyright can involve a conflict between federal copyright law and state probate laws. The conflict may result in a situation in which it isn't clear whether the executor of the estate or the beneficiary of the specific bequest should deal with the property at various times. Specific terms in a will concerning a bequest of a copyright interest can avoid a possible dispute.
May 27, 2005Donald C. FarberThe huge economic losses the entertainment business has sustained from unauthorized downloading by consumers has prompted a closer look at growing ancillary areas for licensing entertainment content such as mobile entertainment and video and computer games. And while the video- and computer-games industry has been hit by unauthorized trading by consumers, unlike the record industry, it has also achieved significant growth over recent years.
With this and intensified business competition has come a rise in contested legal issues.May 27, 2005Stan SoocherWhat is a client service team and why do you need one?
May 27, 2005Andy Havens