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Can Executives and Producers Be Employees <i>and</i> Independent Contractors? Image

Can Executives and Producers Be Employees <i>and</i> Independent Contractors?

Robert M. Jason

What studio executive has not also wanted to be a producer? Many start down the producer road even while continuing to serve as executives. In its own way, the IRS has just made this path a little easier.

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Newegg Scores in Federal e-Commerce Patent Case

Jan Wolfe

After six years of litigation, the online retailer Newegg Inc. has delivered a major blow to Soverain Software LLC, which has raked in tens of millions of dollars asserting patents related to e-commerce. Siding with Newegg in a 25-page decision issued on January 22, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit invalidated three of Soverain's patents on obviousness grounds.

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Integrating Trans-Atlantic Internet Medical Law

Jonathan Bick

Technological developments such as videoconferencing, the Internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media and terrestrial and wireless communications have caused rapid changes in how electronic transmission of patient information ' <i>i.e.</i>, telemedicine ' is conducted. So, too, have legal developments in America and Europe.

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Transmission Claims Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

Richard Raysman

Given the allure of robust remedies in federal court, companies routinely plead CFAA unauthorized access claims ' in addition to state law causes of action for misappropriation and breach of contract ' against former employees who seek a competitive edge through the use of information misappropriated from their former employer's computer network.

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March issue in PDF format

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News Briefs

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.

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CA Ruling Backs e-Tailers Image

CA Ruling Backs e-Tailers

Scott Graham

The California Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on Feb. 4 that the Legislature never intended to apply the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1971 to e-commerce, meaning that retailers can take addresses and telephone numbers when conducting remote credit card transactions.

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Court Watch

Cynthia M. Klaus & Susan E. Tegt

Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.

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Discovery in Arbitration Proceedings

Charles F. Forer

This article marks the debut of an occasional column that will provide franchise attorneys with practical advice about conducting arbitrations.

3-D Printing: Strategies to Anticipate the Next Disruptive Technology Image

3-D Printing: Strategies to Anticipate the Next Disruptive Technology

Thomas C. Mahlum & Andrew J. Pieper

One could be forgiven for believing that 3-D printing ' essentially the ability to design and "print" three-dimensional objects ' remains either in the scope of far-fetched science fiction, or out of reach for the masses on account of being hopelessly expensive and complicated. Both of those assumptions, however, are wrong.

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