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Swedish Music Industry Views: Part Two Image

Swedish Music Industry Views: Part Two

Stan Soocher

Among other things, the article discusses the Swedish music industry perspective on the European Union's Copyright Directive, the growth of multi-country music licensing hubs and the impact of Brexit.

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Neighbor Standing to Challenge SEQRA Determinations

Stewart E. Sterk

When does an immediately adjacent neighbor have standing to challenge a SEQRA determination?

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Agency: A New Frontier for FCPA Jurisdiction Image

Agency: A New Frontier for FCPA Jurisdiction

Darren LaVerne, Michael Martinez & Eric Rosoff

The Hoskins case highlighted the manner by which the DOJ (and the SEC, which has civil enforcement jurisdiction under the FCPA) can harness the common-law doctrine of agency to expand the reach of the statute.

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SEC Proposes Changes to Accredited Investor Definition

Peter Fass

Real estate syndication offerings often rely on Rule 506 of Regulation D to exempt such offerings from registration under the Securities Act. Rule 506 requires that, with certain limited exceptions, purchasers of the securities offered are limited to accredited investors. Amendments proposed by the SEC in December modify certain of the existing categories of accredited investors and create certain new categories.

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SEC Proposes Changes to Accredited Investor Definition

Peter Fass

The definition of "accredited investor" uses income and net worth thresholds to identify natural persons as accredited investors.

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More Regulation, Stronger Investigations and Home Tech Devices Concerns to Come in 2020, New Gibson Dunn Report Warns Image

More Regulation, Stronger Investigations and Home Tech Devices Concerns to Come in 2020, New Gibson Dunn Report Warns

Steve Salkin

On Data Privacy Day last month, Gibson Dunn released the eighth edition of its United States Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Outlook and Review. The report details trends that the privacy industry saw in 2019 from a legislative, regulatory and judicial perspective.

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GDPR-Based Objections to U.S. Discovery Requests: 2019 Year in Review Image

GDPR-Based Objections to U.S. Discovery Requests: 2019 Year in Review

Leslie Meredith

U.S. civil litigants faced with an obligation to produce "personal data" protected by GDPR can find themselves on the horns of a serious dilemma. Initial rulings addressing the tension between the broad scope of data protected by GDPR and the similarly broad scope of discovery under U.S. law revealed substantial skepticism that complying with a U.S. discovery request would expose parties to significant enforcement risk in the EU. This article takes a look at what arguments parties put forth in the past year, and make a few suggestions for how litigants can avoid violating one jurisdiction's law to satisfy another's courts.

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IP News

Joshua R. Stein & Jeff Ginsberg

Federal Circuit Holds PTAB Judges Unconstitutional, Constructs a Fix—But Not All Judges Agree on What Happens Next

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A Look Behind, A Look Ahead: Part 1 - Cybersecurity Image

A Look Behind, A Look Ahead: Part 1 - Cybersecurity

Steve Salkin

Cybersecurity Law & Strategy partnered with our ALM sibling Legaltech News to ask cybersecurity and e-discovery experts what they thought the key trends were in 2019 and what they expect to see in 2020.

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Data Privacy: Building Compliant and Adaptable Systems Image

Data Privacy: Building Compliant and Adaptable Systems

Tomas Suros

Rather than trying to institute changes to comply with every new privacy law as it emerges, a better approach is to view data privacy as an overall framework and adopt a holistic response to compliance with the built-in flexibility to constantly adapt to an ever-changing legal landscape.

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