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The Unheralded Value of a Contract
The most important part of a contract is the data that it generates. If you take all that data from each contract, then aggregate, organize and analyze it, you will have critical insights into the overall effectiveness of your contracting process and the way you transact business.
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Should Your Clients' Involvement With Cryptocurrency Scare You?
It's not a matter of whether you have an interest in crypto, think it's all a bizarre techno-bubble, the eventual replacement for fiat currency, or somewhere in between. The fact of the matter is your clients, and future clients, are more likely than ever to have a connection to this market, and a brief review of the headlines can make this prospect seem terrifying.
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Legal Triggers In NFT Crypto Craze
The latest cryptocurrency craze has litigators closely watching from the sidelines. Buyers of digital non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are ready to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars, sometimes more, but when disputes start to hit the scene, litigators said there is little to no case law as precedent.
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The World of NFTs
NFTs have been all the rage lately. So what exactly are they?
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The World of NFTs and Their Implications In Intellectual Property Law
NFTs have been all the rage in the world. So what exactly are NFTs, and how do they reconcile with the basic tenets of intellectual property law?
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Supreme Court Leaves As Many Questions As It Answers In 'Google v. Oracle'
The Court cleared Google of copyright infringement in terminating a 16-year long dispute as to whether Google's Android mobile platform had infringed Oracle's Java programming language's copyright. However, the Court did not answer the question of whether specific components of computer software qualifies for copyright protection at all.
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Scared of Your Clients' Involvement With Cryptocurrency?
Given the rapid expansion of interest and participation in cryptocurrency transactions, it's not a matter of whether you have an interest in crypto, think it's all a bizarre techno-bubble, the eventual replacement for fiat currency, or somewhere in between. The fact of the matter is your clients, and future clients, are more likely than ever to have a connection to this market, and a brief review of the headlines can make this prospect seem terrifying.
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Can You Hear Me Now? — Privacy of Discussions
This article looks at privacy discussions, focusing on what in the circumstances discussed renders the IT data private and whether the criteria relied upon when courts and others in the discussion determine that the data is or is not private is truly determinative, as well as properly understood.
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How to Avoid 'Privacy Debt'
For many tech companies today, their products and business model require the collection and storage of data. At the same time, a failure to build adequate data protection technology, processes, and operations will continuously generate "privacy debt" for the business. The accumulation of this "privacy debt" can eventually turn away customers, attract regulatory penalties, and create an existential risk for the company.
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Telehealth: The Wave of the Future for Both Medicine and Enforcement
The prevalent view is that telehealth will remain an integral part of our healthcare system post-PHE and may even continue to expand. And that means criminal and civil enforcement focused on fraud committed using, or furthered by the use of, telehealth will be expanding as well, particularly when one looks at the dollars that a regulator can bring in for fraud or noncompliance.
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