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Facebook Submits New Settlement Proposal for 'Sponsored Stories' Lawsuit
Lawyers for Facebook Inc. are trying again to settle a suit related to its "Sponsored Stories" advertising feature after a federal judge rejected an earlier proposal.
Decisions of Interest
Analysis of recent rulings of interest.
Speed Traps, Lemonade Stands and ' e-Commerce Issues
What does an inspection binge by a local municipal code enforcer who may have visited the lemonade stand you operated as a kid have to do with your e-commerce business in 2012?
Corporate Internal Investigations
This is the last of a three-part series giving companies a step-by-step guide for planning and conducting sensitive internal investigations into potential wrongdoing.
Media & Communications: Become the Newsroom
Firms and lawyers have the opportunity to drive and shape editorial content as never before. But few of them fully understand the opportunity, or possess the necessary internal capacity to produce high-quality editorial content.
A Review of Legal Obligations Reps Owe Artists
In a dispute between the artist and a representative, the central issue typically revolves around the extent and nature of the legal duty owed to the artist by the particular representative, and whether that duty has been breached. In complicating instances, representatives may perform multiple functions and wear more than one hat.
Terrorism and the Pollution Exclusion
This article considers whether alleged personal injuries based on exposure to contaminants disbursed because of a terrorist attack are excluded from coverage by the pollution exclusion commonly found in most insurance policies.
EEOC Recognizes Title VII Cause of Action for Transgender Individuals
In a recent unanimous decision, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) took the dramatic step of extending the protections of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to transgender individuals on the basis of their "transgender" status.
No Fair Use in Mag's Publication of Marriage Photos of Singer
To Ninth Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown, the appeal in copyright case <i>Monge v. Maya Magazines</i> read "like a telenovela, a Spanish soap opera." McKeown wrote that the Spanish-language gossip magazine <i>TVNotas</i> violated the copyright of Noelia Lorenzo Monge, a Puerto Rican pop singer known mostly by her first name, and her husband, Jorge Reynoso, a music producer, by publishing private wedding photographs that apparently had been stolen from them.
China Opportunities for U.S. Entertainment Industry Still Saddled with Government and 'Copycat' Hurdles
<i>Entertainment Law &amp; Finance</i> Editor-in-Chief Stan Soocher traveled to China over the summer to teach the course 'American Music Goes to Court' at the International College of Beijing. He reports here, in a two-part series, on the state of entertainment industry issues in China, as U.S. companies try to expand their reach there. Part One covers the current state of copyright law in China and discusses TV and film concerns.

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