Gregory G. Garre
The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to hear one of the most important commercial cases to reach the Court in decades. <i>MGM v. Grokster</i> raises a copyright challenge to the Internet-based services that enable millions of users around the world to swap digital copies of sound recordings and movies with a few clicks of a mouse. At stake is the legitimacy of our copyright system in the digital age.
Stephen V. Treglia
Case law in 2004 in the area of Internet communications has something in common with the hurricane season that recently ended: It has been an unusually active year.
Tony Mauro
The Supreme Court late last year appeared hostile toward state barriers that impede interstate wine sales, likely foreshadowing a win for small wineries in their long battle against the system that controls sales of alcoholic beverages nationwide.
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The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a not-for-profit, public-private partnership focused on driving awareness and promoting education of cyber security, and NCSA member America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, recently released the results of one of the largest and most comprehensive in-home studies ever conducted on the security of computer users.
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Mark V. B. Partridge
The growing importance of the Internet as an advertising and distribution medium has dramatically increased the globalization of trademark problems. That fine cafe you enjoyed in Portofino last summer can now post a Web site to promote its specialty products to customers in Pasadena virtually overnight. <br>Our legal system, built on precedent, understandably lags behind these economic and technological forces. Nevertheless, the legal response to globalization in recent years has been quietly dramatic. Two recent cases suggest new options for business and intellectual property counsel seeking to enforce and protect their clients' rights.
Stan Soocher
Recent developments in entertainment law.
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The Supreme Court of Mississippi ruled that the heirs of the half-sister of blues musician Robert Johnson may proceed with their suit for ownership of the only two photographs of the legendary artist.
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Recently filed cases in entertainment law, straight from the steps of the Los Angeles Superior Court.
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Recent cases in entertainment law.
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Andrew Malahowski
An important representation issue under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) involves scenarios where the scope of a bargaining unit is proposed to include both an employer's regular workers and employees supplied by a separate employer, such as a staffing agency. Just over 4 years ago in <i>M. B. Sturgis</i>, 331 NLRB 1298 (2000), the Board stated that "a growing number of employees who are part of what is commonly described as the 'contingent work force' are being effectively denied representational rights guaranteed them under the National Labor Relations Act." Therefore, the Board majority in <i>Sturgis</i> -- consisting of Chairman Truesdale and Members Fox and Liebman -- overruled prior precedent in <i>Lee Hospital</i>, 300 NLRB 947 (1990) and <i>Greenhoot, Inc.</i>, 205 NLRB 250 (1973), and held that a bargaining unit could include both regular and supplied employees without the consent of both the regular employer and the supplier employer.
