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Sirius XM's Losses In Suits on Pre-'72 Sound Recordings

Lisa Shuchman

For the third time in as many months, Sirius XM lost a court ruling over the issue of pre-1972 sound recordings. In a decision that further upsets the status quo for the music and copyright worlds, a federal judge in New York ruled that the owners of pre-1972 sound recordings have performance rights to their records, and that Sirius XM therefore infringed copyrights.

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Equity Joint Ventures

Matthew Churchill & Allain Andry

When a client seeks representation on an equity joint venture, there are eight primary structural considerations that provide the framework for documenting the venture: 1) initial capital contributions; 2) future capital needs; 3) cash distribution waterfall; 4) governance; 5) transfers; 6) exit rights; 7) restrictive covenants; and 8) affiliate transactions.

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Drug & Device News

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Several topics of interest to med mal practitioners are discussed.

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Credit Card Information Security Issues in Franchising

Craig R. Tractenberg & Keri McWilliams

Data breaches at Target, Home Depot, Neiman Marcus and P.F. Chang's are front-page reminders of the vulnerability of customer payment information in the retail sector. In <i>Wyndham Worldwide</i>, the FTC brought suit claiming that a franchisor's alleged failures to maintain reasonable security measures constituted unfair and deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act.

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Development

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Commentary and analysis of several key rulings.

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In the Courts

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Analysis of a case in which a restitution bid failed in wire fraud involving Kyrgyzstan.

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Deferred Compensation Plans Under Section 409A

Lawrence L. Bell

Everything you need to know about deferred compensation plans.

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Litigating Workplace Injuries in a Virtual Office

Jonathan Bick

America's workplace increasingly involves a virtual office. The injuries suffered by those so-called virtual workers are similar to workplace injuries suffered by workers in the traditional work place. However, the Internet has broadened the definition of the "workplace," and thus broadened the definition of the workplace for purposes of litigating workplace injuries and changing the nature of evidence of such injuries.

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Analyzing Advertiser Liability for Blogger Reviews

Ronald R. Urbach, Edward Kabak & Matthew E. Smith

This holiday shopping season, millions of Americans will look to their social media friends or favorite bloggers for advice when deciding which gifts to buy. And with over 42 million blog sites in the United States alone, there are plenty of "peer" opinions to consider. But are consumer-generated product-related reviews or commentary always the mere opinion of the person posting them, as many readers may believe?

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Over-Secured Lenders and Requests for Attorneys' Fees

Mark A. McDermott & Christine A. Okike

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently reaffirmed the long-established rule that an over-secured lender's legal and other fees are subject to court approval as reasonable under section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code.

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