Practice Tip: Using PowerPoint to Make Winning Presentations
March 17, 2005
Successful and interesting presentations are a challenge, but they are not impossible to achieve. They require a lot of planning and forethought, but the rewards (an educated, entertained, persuaded and engaged audience) make it well worth the effort. One of the most effective and powerful tools available for effective presentations is Microsoft's PowerPoint.
Identity Theft: The Next Corporate Liability Wave?
March 17, 2005
The nation's fastest growing crime, identity theft, is combining with greater corporate accumulation of personal data, increasingly vocal consumer anger and new state and federal laws to create significant new legal, financial and reputation risk for many companies.
Defining Political Spam
March 15, 2005
The effects of e-mail on American political campaigns are dramatic, as demonstrated last November, when e-communication played a decisive factor in several election victories. The Internet as cyber forum offers candidates the opportunity to contact a million voters for about $100 using unsolicited bulk e-mails, often called spam. Under the First Amendment, political spam is generally lawful, but political spam used for fundraising and other specific types of communication may cause legal difficulties for candidates and their agencies ' from canvassers to other entities sending the spam, however well-intentioned.
An Extra e-Safety Net
March 15, 2005
As technology advancements and competition combine to drive information technology (IT) costs down, law firms of all sizes are poised to take advantage…
Hyperlinking As Infringement
March 15, 2005
Can hyperlinks on one Web site that link to another site where copyrighted materials are displayed constitute copyright infringement? <br>Although courts in at least two decisions have declined to recognize the potential of copyright infringement from the mere use of such hyperlinks, the recent Indiana federal district court case, <i>Batesville Services, Inc v. Funeral Depot, Inc.</i>, concluded that a defendant's use of hyperlinks on a Web site that link to copyrighted material on another Web site could constitute unlawful copyright infringement.
Virtual Cost Cutting
March 15, 2005
Predictions were that e-mail would revolutionize business communication ' and slash its cost. In fact, the doyens and novices alike of e-mail promised that this admittedly useful, and now ubiquitous, tool would eliminate postage and paper expenses, as well as the hidden-delay costs of waiting for even an overnight package to arrive. <br>But in an era when deals are negotiated and closed entirely online, has e-mail's reality lived up to its promise? While business is certainly being done more quickly than in the dark ages before e-mail ' remember, say, the early 1990s? ' is it being done more efficiently?
IP News
February 25, 2005
Highlights of the latest intellectual property news from around the country.
Determining the Rights of Heirs In Copyright-Renewal Interests
February 24, 2005
The digital age and widespread, unauthorized Internet downloading have raised doubts about the strength of copyright protection. But the durability of entertainment content has nevertheless kept renewal interests in copyrights alive. It is often the children and spouses of deceased artists who are involved in fights over the economic promise of these copyright renewals. <br>Primary issues in cases claiming renewal-interest rights include the limitations period for filing a claim and how the renewal interests should be divided among an artist's heirs. Two recent cases demonstrate how these claims play out.
